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The United States and Japan have joined the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs, the WIPO-administered registry

In Estonia a patent was granted on April 15 1998 followed by a marketing authorisation on June 8 2001 for a pharmaceutical composition comprising the active agent capecitabine. Based thereon a supplementary protection certificate (SPC) was requested and granted. According to Estonian national SPC regulations the SPC provided a protection term of 15 years from the date of grant of the marketing authorization, that is until June 8 2016.

The Federal Supreme Court recently decided on whether the Patent Office may rightfully register a patent licence solely on the request of the licensee. This was the practice of the Office in view of the fact that the Patent Act provides no specific rules as to who may apply for the registration of a licence and whether it is sufficient for proof of title to file the licence contract, or whether an explicit consent of the patent owner is needed; the Act also does not provide any rules on how the Registrar should act if it is contentious whether a licence contract is (still) valid or not.

The world now frowns at smokers. Yet Russia remains one of the countries with the highest smoking rate. Many tobacco companies have a presence in Russia and strive to strengthen their hold on Russian smokers. Philip Morris is one such company. It filed to register the figurative trade mark.

Mexico’s failure to sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement last week could have been avoided, said José Rodrigo Roque-Díaz, the new head of the country’s IP Office

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear Supap Kirtsaeng v John Wiley & Sons, a case that addresses whether goods manufactured and purchased abroad are subject to the first sale doctrine

Managing IP presented trophies to the outstanding firms in 70 categories last night, as well as in-house and individual achievement awards. Here are all the winners

The Swiss Trademark Office applies a very restrictive registrability practice to marks with geographic terms, and rejects many of them. The appeal court, the Federal Administrative Court, applies a more liberal, or more differentiated, practice and allows some of these marks to registration on appeal. Quite a few cases are therefore appealed.

World Trade Organization Director-General Roberto Azevêdo this week appointed three panelists to consider the legality of Australia’s law requiring plain packaging for tobacco products

The Malaysian courts recently handed down their decision in Hu Kin Ai & Anor v Liew Yew Thoong [2005] 6 AMR 363. The plaintiffs had been selling watches in Malaysia and internationally since 1994 and are the registered owners of the trade mark "Blansacar with Five Stars Device" in respect of watches. They sued the defendant for trade mark infringement and passing off. The first plaintiff had also applied to register the Chinese characters "Wu Xing Shang Jiang" (meaning Five Star General) in respect of watches.