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IP Experts
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.
Nepal’s IP Experts 2024
31 August 2024On World Intellectual Property Day in April 2024, government officials from Nepal acknowledged that the country’s IP enforcement mechanisms are not working as intended.
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.
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...
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.
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...
Taiwan’s IP Experts 2024
01 July 2024Taiwan boasts a strong legal market, thanks in part to its leading role in semiconductor and other high-tech manufacturing. The legal market in Taipei – and, indeed, elsewhere around Taiwan – is robust and competitive, giving it outsize strength for...
The Philippines’ IP Experts 2024
01 July 2024Intellectual property filings in the Philippines continued to rise, up 2.5 percent in 2023, an increase which the Intellectual Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has attributed to increased awareness of the importance of IP.
Thailand’s IP Experts 2024
31 May 2024Thailand remains on the United States Trade Representative’s Special 301 Report watchlist, despite praise from the U.S. government for the Thai government for its work in improving the country’s IP system, the Department of Intellectual Property (DIP...
Indonesia’s IP Experts 2024
31 May 2024If Min Usihen, Indonesia’s director general of intellectual property, has her way, women-owned micro, small and medium enterprises will soon be taking advantage of the country’s IP laws to improve their businesses.
Australia’s IP Experts 2024
30 April 2024A recent report by Appian, a software company that automate business processes, says that the implementation of new technologies and digital tools is reshaping Australia’s public sector, with new research showing 85 percent of government workers surv...
New Zealand’s IP Experts 2024
30 April 2024Much to the chagrin of honey farmers, New Zealand’s intellectual property office (IPONZ) ruled last year that mānuka honey cannot be trademarked, leaving use of the valuable name open to producers in neighbouring Australia.
Hong Kong’s IP Experts 2024
30 April 2024Recently, Hong Kong and China inked a deal that gives both jurisdictions the ability to enforce intellectual property judgments from courts in either place, giving what Hong Kong law firm Deacons called “a special position in the resolution of cross-...
Pakistan’s IP Experts 2024
30 April 2024Leading up to its celebration of World Intellectual Property Day, the Intellectual Property of Pakistan’s chair Farukh Amil called for the country to embrace innovation and creativity and touted the IPO’s efforts to promote IP in alignment with the U...
Macau’s IP Experts 2024
31 March 2024As tourism, mainly from mainland China, rebounds in Macau, the intellectual properties involved in the special administrative region’s (SAR) booming gaming industry have made headlines in 2023 and 2024.