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India´s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, recently communicated that India is in a stage where economic growth and technological developments will highly depend on intellectual property.

The Hague System provides a straightforward solution to international design protection that eliminates the need to file separate and multiple applications in individual countries or regions. Intellectual property (IP) rights...

This article aims to give foreign investors in Viet Nam an overview of trademark registration and enforcement features in-country.

Amendments to the Thai Copyright Act have now been finally adopted- the new law will be effective in 180 days (in August 2022). The new law improves online enforcement of copyright infringement in particular.

On Wednesday 9 March 2022, the Africa IP SME Helpdesk is organising a webinar, ‘Guide to IP protection in Nigeria for EU SMEs’.

"The Rules", provide a wide definition of Intellectual Property including Information Technology and data protection and frame the different procedures for the registration and enforcement of Intellectual Property rights, including expedited registration procedures and alternative dispute resolution

First episode of Intellectual Property in the Metaverse.

As from May 8, 2022, the amounts of the individual fee payable in respect of Singapore will change. Those amounts will be...

The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has called on authors, artists, companies and students to produce their own work rather than resort to plagiarism. This is to avoid legal complaints, it said.

News concerning a legal dispute between the EU and China and recent case law from the GC.

Attorneys from Tilleke & Gibbins contributed the Thailand chapter of the recently released Patent Litigation Global Guide, a Q&A-style guide that offers detailed overviews of courtroom and litigation procedure in connection with patent dispute resolution. The guide, which is published by ...

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In SingNet Pte Ltd v. Composers and Authors Society of Singapore Ltd [2021] SGCRT 1, a decision issued on 28 December 2021, the Copyright Tribunal of Singapore ("Tribunal") adopted a fourfold framework in determining the appropriate approach to assess reasonableness of a copyright licence rate.

The parties in the mediation Leonid Kovalkov v. JNBK Group Private Limited [2022] SGIPOS MED 1 had been embroiled in several disputes before the Intellectual Property of Singapore (IPOS) since 2012, including several that proceeded to full hearings and resulted in three full grounds of decision.

In 2021, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has recorded the highest-ever number of EUTM applications.

The European Patent Office (EPO) has released two new case studies and a podcast episode looking at successful technology transfer.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY filings rose 11.6% in 2021 to 46,496 as quarantine restrictions eased and allowed more business activity, according to the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL).

With the new release, the IP Enforcement Portal (IPEP) becomes the single e-filing and management point for customs applications for action (AFA) for 24 Member States, with an alternative system for the remaining three (DE, ES and IT).

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