A new Intellectual Property Office (IPO) of Myanmar, formally known as Burma, has been set-up under the Ministry of Commerce of Myanmar and is being rolled out in two stages: 1. Soft Opening and 2. Grand of Opening During the “Soft-opening” period (January - May 2020) trademark holders who have already registered their trademark under [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXR0vcJlY4o In this week's IP roundup we have: The New York Times suggests pharma patent fix Qualcomm tries to hold back the flood Huawei Mobile has a new OS trademark Ford Motor Company and Volkswagen team up IBM goes full Transformer Intel pulls back its auction The New York Times has something to say about [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlENThOuaqA&t=3s In this week's news: Intel puts 8,000 patents on the auction block Kim Kardashian backs down on a trademark HairBnB gets put in the pound Samsung has another great patent The USPTO has a new policy restricting foreign trademark filing The case of Iancu vs Brunetti closed last week, with the Supreme Court [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_ci0XkN9Vk&t=7s Attempting to tackle rising drug costs, the US Congress is considering passing the “Terminating the Extension of Rights Misappropriated Act of 2019”. The bill would prevent the common practice of extending drug patents through small updates and preventing generics from entering the market. The US Food and Drug Administration is also fighting drug costs [...]
IP5 Preparing for ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ The recent IP5, a gathering between the world’s largest intellectual property offices, convened this past week in Korea. Leaders of the five offices (United States, China, Japan, European Union, and Korea) discussed cooperation on an international scale and the important topic of handling rising technologies. At the end of [...]