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The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) received 151 counterfeiting and piracy reports from consumers and complaints from rights holders in 2021, surpassing the previous record-high of 121 in 2020 and registering a 25% year-on-year increase.

Recent case law from the General Court (GC).

Both INPI Brazil and INPI France have signed 2 memoranda of understanding.

As from April 22, 2022, the amounts of the individual fee payable in respect of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic will change.

The Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO) has announced a Patents (Amendment) Act 2022 that comes into force on 18 March 2022...

Trade with counterfeit products has a wide range of negative consequences, namely for the global economy and, more importantly, the health and safety of consumers.

The Transition Performance Index (TPI) and the Global Innovation Index analyse the possible links between innovation and transition performance.

A recent case of Trademark enforcement between an American operator and a local Indian undertaking was appealed up to the Supreme Court.

Chief Justice of India, NV Ramana recently stressed the need to raise the number of judges in high courts, in particular to efficiently tackle the rising number of intellectual property enforcement cases.

Two news coming from Russia: IP rights suspension and a judgment of trade mark infringement regarding Peppa Pig.

This research paper examines the possible causal relationship between the availability of English language audiovisual content in the Caribbean and piracy levels in the region.

WIPO Patent Landscape Report states that universities and research organizations filed nearly as many patent applications as corporations for COVID-19 vaccines during the early months of the global pandemic.

Since January 2021, the Department of Intellectual Property has introduced its online dispute settlement services covering IP cases that it developed with the Thai Arbitration Institute.

The copyright law currently in effect in Thailand is the Copyright Act B.E. 2537 (1994), which came into force in March 1995. After 20 years, a new amendment came into effect in August 2015...

The Federation of Industrial & Commercial Organisation (FICO) together with the PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry recently organised an interactive session highlighting the importance of IPR protection in particular for small and medium sized companies.

The new study was published by the EUIPO Observatory analysing how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies might affect both the infringement and enforcement of copyright and designs.

Case law form the GC and a PDO case.

Only three countries in the world have been chosen by the OECD to constitute a Regional Center for Competition: South Korea, for Asia; Hungary for Europe and Peru, for Latin America and the Caribbean.

The EU Prize for Women Innovators celebrates the women entrepreneurs behind Europe’s game-changing innovations.