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Is San Francisco’s Sugar-sweetened Beverage Rule Watering Down First Amendment Rights?
06 January 2017San Francisco’s ordinance targeting added sugar has the potential to leave a bad taste in the mouths of beverage makers and other product advertisers across the nation after a federal judge in California upheld a particularly onerous labeling mandate...
Sufficient Disclosure Issue in China
14 December 2016Sufficient disclosure of an invention is required under the Patent Law of China. According to Article 26, Clause 3 of the law, “the description shall set forth the invention or the utility model in a manner sufficiently clear and complete so as to en...
The Own Name Defence is Often no Defence at All
13 September 2016In The Audience Motivation Company Asia Pte Ltd v. AMC Live Group China (S) Pte Ltd, the Singapore Court of Appeal, in a ruling dated April 21, 2016, found in favour of the appellant, thus overturning a decision by the High Court which had dismissed...
Influence of Amendments Under Article 33 for Stability of Patent Rights
13 September 2016Under the provision of Article 33 of the Patent Law of China, an applicant may amend his or its application for a patent, but the amendment to the application for a patent for invention or utility model may not go beyond the scope of disclosure conta...
Determination of Purely Functional Features for Design in Taiwan
13 September 2016A design patent application is subject to substantive examination in Taiwan. Putting it differently, after the design patent application has entered the examination stage, the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) conducts the examinations on th...
Trade Secret and Patent Protection in China
19 August 2016A trade secret is defined as technical information and operational information which is unknown to the public, which may bring economic benefits to the owner of rights, which has practical applicability and for which the owner of rights has taken mea...
The Impact of Economic Policies on IP Infrastructure
19 August 2016On June 23, 2016, the British government voted to leave the European Union (EU). Separately, on February 4, 2016, Malaysia signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) together with 11 other countries in Auckland. On a regional level, ASEAN...