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Sri Lanka’s IP Experts 2024
31 August 2024Intellectual property professionals in Sri Lanka are pushing for updates to the Intellectual Property Act to handle creations by artificial intelligence, EconomyNext reported in February 2024.
Vietnam’s IP Experts 2024
30 August 2024There’s little question that Vietnam has as big of an announcement about its intellectual property regime as we’ve heard in a long, long time.
Brunei’s IP Experts 2024
30 August 2024It’s not often we get to write about Brunei. The country is often overshadowed by its much larger neighbours – it shares an island with Malaysia and Indonesia, and is, in fact, divided into two sections joined by Malaysia’s Asia Highway Route 150. Co...
Malaysia’s IP Experts 2024
30 August 2024Malaysia joined with fellow ASEAN members states to showcase their intellectual property products for the first time at the 65th World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) General Assembly in Geneva in July 2024.
Turkey’s IP Experts 2024
31 July 2024In July 2024, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, unveiled a US$30 billion package filled with incentives designed to boost investment in advanced technology sectors. With the incentives, Erdogan pledged to bring Turkey to the global stage by a...
China Strategies Guide 2024
31 August 2024Navigating China's IP landscape requires strategic foresight and expert guidance. Whether you're interested in patent prosecution deferment, trademark infringement defenses, or AI clauses in publishing, Asia IP's China Strategies Guide 2024 offers au...
Newest chain of convenience stores in copyright complaint, IPOPHL responds
24 September 2024Several of its goods have packaging that is purportedly identical to Nutri Asia’s UFC and Datu Puti range.
Turkish Olympian seeks to trademark iconic pose
19 September 2024Turkish Olympic shooter Yusuf Dikec soon found his iconic stance appearing on products like t-shirts and mugs.
Malaysia joins WIPO Alert
16 September 2024WIPO Alert is an online tool that lets law enforcement organizations post and retrieve lists of websites found to be violating copyright.
iQIYI faces backlash over World Cup broadcast issues as CCTV skips matches
13 September 2024Due to high copyright fees, CCTV did not broadcast the 2026 FIFA World Cup Asian qualifiers, leaving iQIYI Sports as the only legal streaming option.
Plagiarism? An IP lawyer weighs in on “Isang Kaibigan”
09 September 2024“The real question is whether Isang Kaibigan replicates Owly’s distinctive elements,” says IP lawyer.
Webtoon DMCA subpoena targets over 170 pirate websites
29 August 2024Webtoon says ‘operations, financial position, reputation and prospects’ may suffer.
Voice ownership: When your voice becomes a digital doppelgänger
27 August 2024As AI continues its march forward, actors are increasingly finding themselves on the outside of the voice over business. Cathy Li examines who owns an actor’s voice when AI and voice cloning tools can sound like just about anyone.
Couples in (and out of) love: Intellectual property issues in a relationship
01 August 2024Are IPs created during a relationship considered shared property, or are they retained solely by the creator?
Japan’s news association calls for legal reforms against AI ‘free-riding’ on copyrighted content
01 August 2024AI-powered search engines are using news articles without permission, potentially infringing on copyrights and harming the creator’s financial returns.