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With some 4,000 unheard cases and multiple vacancies unfilled, India’s Intellectual Property Appellate Board could be regarded as unfit for purpose. But, as WIPR’s Saman Javed discovers, the country’s lawyers carry on regardless. 17 September 2019
Patents
Excitement is building around a new scheme to tackle Brazil’s patent backlog, says Ricardo D Nunes of Daniel Law. 17 September 2019
Copyright
Efforts to reduce Brazil’s patent backlog are bearing fruit and the country’s long-suffering lawyers are cautiously optimistic, as WIPR’s Sarah Morgan finds. 17 September 2019
Trademarks
With a no-deal Brexit looming over the UK, time is running out to address rights owners’ key concerns, as WIPR’s Rory O’Neill reports. 17 September 2019
Jurisdiction reports
France’s draft law on Mobility Orientation, adopted in first reading by the National Assembly, if adopted will liberalise the market of certain spare parts used to repair motor vehicles. 17 September 2019
Jurisdiction reports
The question under which circumstances the use of a sign identical with a trademark in Google AdWords advertisements constitutes a trademark infringement has been the subject of several decisions of the German Federal Court of Justice and the Court of Justice of the EU in the past. 17 September 2019
Jurisdiction reports
Indian trademark law follows the “first-to-use” principle. Accordingly, the right of a prior user of a trademark is recognised to be superior to that of a registered proprietor. Even registered proprietors cannot interfere with the rights of an unregistered prior user. This has been re-asserted by Indian courts in several judgments over time. 17 September 2019
Patents
Courtroom experience, the ability to work well in a team, and transparency are the key attributes lawyers should have if they want to represent multinational companies like Qualcomm and Boehringer Ingelheim, according to their in-house counsel. 17 September 2019
Patents
“A full roll-out of blockchain could be the Eureka moment for the IP industry,” CPA Global has argued in a new report calling on the industry to embrace the era of what it calls “new IP”. 17 September 2019
Patents
US law firm Cantor Colburn has hired three partners and two counsel in a bid to strengthen its litigation and patent practices. 17 September 2019
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