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Kazakhstan creates roadmap for IP improvement

Kazakhstan has created an intellectual property further development roadmap for the next three years. This was announced by Vice Minister of Justice Akerke Akhmetova in December 2021.

IP Amendment Bill announced at Singapore Parliament

Minister Edwin Tong SC, Singapore’s Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, Second Minister for Law announced the Intellectual Property Amendment Bill (IPAB) at the Singapore Parliament on January 12, stressing that economic growth is increasingly...

IPOPHL Jumps To 9th Place In World Ranking

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has jumped from 24th to 9th place in the World Trademark Review's (WTR) 2021 IP Office Innovation Ranking, making it the only developing nation with an IP office in the top ten out of 60 of...

Copyright awareness on 1st Philippine Copyright Summit

The first-ever Philippine International Copyright Summit (PICS), hosted by the Intellectual Propoerty Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has attracted over 2.5 million visitors and helped promote copyright as a tool to aid the creative economy's reco...

China Releases 2021-2022 Outline for Building a Powerful Intellectual Property Country

On January 4, 2022, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) released the 2021-2022 Outline for Building a Powerful Intellectual Property Country and the Annual Promotion Plan for the Implementation of the 14th Five-Year Plan w...

US Ambassador to Pakistan vows to strengthen IP protection, digital economy

Intellectual property protection and digital economy regulations are two areas which United States Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Armin Blome vowed to work on going forward as he proceeds to enhance US - Pakistan ties. He said the two countries ai...

WTO discussions on TRIPS waiver of patent rights stalled

Just when things were beginning to turn rosy, developments involving the proposed TRIPS waiver of patent rights for Covid-19 drugs, vaccines and devices have once again taken a downturn.

Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None” on its way to trademark registration in India

Patent landscaping may not be useful in assessing patentability, says IP lawyer

Vietnam now a member of WIPO’s Copyright Treaty

IPOS rejects tech company’s application to register mark after Louis Vuitton opposition

NanoMalaysia and MyIPO Ink Partnership On Technology Program

NanoMalaysia Berhad (NMB) and the Malaysian Intellectual Property Corporation (MyIPO) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the Technology and Innovation Support Center (TISC) initiative.

Hong Kong startups featured in Business of IP Asia Forum

THE NEW IP TRENDS IN CULTURAL AND THE ARTS

Computational data analysis exception in Singapore’s Copyright Act 2021 a game changer