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The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines’ (IPOPHL) Bureau of Patents (BOP) is intensifying efforts to expand its skills in examining complex and emerging industrial designs (ID).

This week in the news, we focus on a copyright case involving Mango's NFT exhibition, and an EU General Court decision on genuine use of a trade mark

The DESCA (Development of a Simplified Consortium Agreement) 2.0 Consortium Agreement model was recently published in Brussels, with representatives from the European Commission and various stakeholders from across Europe in attendance.

Copyright registrations at the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) soared in 2023, marking a record-high that signifies increased awareness of the importance of copyright registration.

WIPO and The General Secretariat of the Andean Community presented a new manual for trade mark examination in the Andean Community

European Intellectual Property (IP) Helpdesk consortium kicks off the new activities for the new contractual period.

This week, two recent CJEU decisions on Zara and Audi trade marks relating to a similar question: when can someone use another company’s trade mark to identify the purpose of their own goods and services?

Read the latest updates in Brazil regarding patent applications.

European IP Helpdesk team just published a new IP Special covering a set of useful material focusing on important aspects of impact licensing.

On 29 January 2024, the Registry of Intellectual Property of Guatemala (RPI-GT) announced its decision on joining DesignClass. With that decision, Guatemala will then begin to adopt the Harmonised Database of Product Indications (HDBPI) list of terms in DesignClass.

The latest study from the European Patent Office (EPO) reveals a 70% increase in inventions targeting cancer between 2015 and 2021, as evidenced by the number of international patent families (IPFs).

Together with the European IP Helpdesk Ambassadors scheme and members of the core group of the EEN Single Market Thematic Group, European IP Helpdesk published a brand new guide “IP Handbook: Providing IP Guidance Through the EEN Client Journey”.

This week, we focus on a potential dispute involving Pokémon and the General Court case T-537/22 regarding the LEGO design.

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (“IPOPHL”) Rules on Voluntary Administrative Site Blocking (“Site Blocking Rules”) or Memorandum Circular No. 2023-025 dated 20 September 2023, which allows the blocking of pirate websites by internet service providers (“ISP/s”)...

The European Parliament's proposal to prohibit the patenting of gene-edited plants has sparked a division of opinion among stakeholders.

The Plagiarius Prize winners 2024 have been announced. The jury awarded three main prizes, two new special awards and four distinctions.

On January 31, 2024, Myanmar’s Intellectual Property Department (IPD) announced that it would officially start accepting industrial design applications under the Industrial Design Law on February 1, 2024.

The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) decision in ZERODENSITY YAZILIM ANONIM SIRKETI v. Novel Brands USA LLC clarifies the law of passing off in Singapore and discusses the “classical trinity” test in establishing passing off.

To forge a closer relationship with the nation’s innovators and inventors, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) and the Filipino Inventors Federation (FILINFED) signed a memorandum of arrangement (MOA).