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The High Court stated that the FM channels would be restrained from using copyrighted music if they fail to pay the royalties to Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) which has been fighting for performers' and creators' rights for decades.

TMclass helps you to search for and classify Goods and Services (terms) needed to apply for trade mark protection. You can also translate a list of Goods and Services and verify if those terms appear in the classification databases of the Participating Offices.

Industrial research and development (R&D) organisations in Europe have criticised the European Commission's new patent regulations.

The winners will be revealed at a ceremony streamed from Valencia on 4 July and the announcement voting for the Popular Prize begins.

The Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional deal on the regulation for geographical indication protection for craft and industrial products.

Southeast Asia’s remarkable growth as a destination for foreign investment—including a 42 percent increase in 2021, according to a joint ASEAN-UNCTAD report—has brought with it innovation as well as the desire to protect that innovation.

Joining forces with the European IP Helpdesk team, the European Patent Office (EPO) has published two new case studies illustrating the role of intellectual property (IP) for successful technology transfer processes.

This week in the news, Ed Sheeran wins copyright infringement lawsuit, and the General Court provides clarity on a matter of international jurisdiction.

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The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has received an “unqualified or unmodified opinion” from the Commission on Audit (COA) for its financial reporting in 2022, marking 10 straight years that IPOPHL has been achieving the positive auditing finding.

Intellectual property (IP) protection of online exports has become increasingly important for Vietnamese businesses as the country has entered a new stage of cross-border e-commerce, experts said.

The representatives of Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) came together to discuss about extending the ongoing actions by enhancing the technical cooperation between the two institutions this year.

The Indonesian Government recently made a historical decision to join the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure on 13 July 2022, after more than 40 years since the establishment of the Treaty.

The Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property has just published its action plan for the years 2023 to 2026. 

Government agencies and an industry group are seeing intellectual property (IP) protection as fundamental for the resurgence of local textiles and in shaping up the fashion industry toward global competitiveness.

According to the latest patent landscape report published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), India is one of the top five countries filing the highest number of patents related to COVID-19 therapeutics along with China the US, Republic of Korea, and Germany.

This week in the news, singer Ed Sheeran faces U.S. copyright trial over “Let’s get it on” and a recent decision of the General Court.

Every month, European IP Helpdesk team introduces you to a member of our regional intellectual property (IP) Ambassadors. This month, Björn Jürgens who is from the Agency of Innovation and Development of Andalusia (AGENCIA IDEA), Spain.

The latest patent landscape report published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), provides early observations on the patenting activity which took place in the field of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics.