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Trademarks
Protecting the rights of big-name sponsors of events such as the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio is a vital task for the organisers, and the legal framework is already in place. Rafael Lacaz Amaral of Kasznar Leonardos Intellectual Property reports. 1 May 2015
Trademarks
J.Scott Evans, the International Trademark Association’s (INTA) president for 2015, talks through some of the organisation’s initiatives over the last year and its plans for the future. 1 May 2015
Patents
Without strong, predictable and enforceable patent protection, investment in biotech innovation may dry up or be limited to inventions with ‘rock solid’ patents, says Jim Greenwood of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). 1 May 2015
Jurisdiction reports
The Turkish Customs and Commerce Ministry has prepared the Regulation on Commercial Advertisements and Unfair Commercial Practices, which came into force in January 2015. 1 May 2015
Copyright
To mark the tenth anniversary of the World IP Review Annual publication, we have selected some IP highlights from the past ten years, as well as provided a look ahead to 2016. WIPR reports. 1 May 2015
Jurisdiction reports
The unitary patent is one of the oldest topics of discussion within the EU, starting in the early 1970s. The creation of the European Patent Office (EPO) in 1977 was a small step on the right path. However, you still had to translate the patent application into the languages of the country of interest, pay for validation and, in cases of infringement, handle the dispute in national courts. 1 May 2015
Trademarks
Obtaining well-known status can be valuable for a brand, but measuring a company’s fame can be very difficult for national IP offices. WIPR reports on the situation in various jurisdictions. 1 May 2015
Trademarks
More reforms are needed that provide Mexican authorities with enough legal powers to prosecute and, perhaps more important, have a deterrent effect on the people responsible for the trade in counterfeits, as Saúl Santoyo Orozco and José Luis Ramos-Zurita of Uhthoff, Gomez Vega & Uhthoff explain. 1 May 2015
Copyright
Constant vigilance is the strategy Starbucks has used to protect its IP rights over many years and across multiple jurisdictions. WIPR hears how the coffee company goes about it. 1 May 2015
Patents
US politicians across both the Republican and Democrat parties have introduced a bill that is aimed at targeting excessive litigation from non-practising entities. 30 April 2015
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