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Asia IP’s editorial team reveals India’s top IP firms, practices

And the winners of the 2021 Asia IP India Awards are...

India’s number of patents granted almost triple in 5 yrs, moves up in GII rankings

India recorded an almost threefold increase in the number of patents granted in the last five years. The number of patents filed in the country in the same period also increased by 30 percent.

IP trends for 2022

Speaking with leading lawyers from around the region to find out what they think is in store for 2022.

The unusual suspect

team of experts reveals everything you need to know about the alternative IP – trade secrets – from hurdling the pitfalls of protection to doing the right thing in litigation.

The good patent: How to get the best value from your patents

Chatting with lawyers around the region about what makes a patent a good patent.

Hong Kong Must Strengthen Its IP Protections

A senior researcher has suggested that if Hong Kong wants to become the region's innovation and technology centre, it has to enhance intellectual property (IP) protections for new breakthroughs, stressing that scientific infrastructure alone will not...

Report Says That China Has Around 700,000 Patent Inventions In 2021

The China National Intellectual Property Administration (NIPA) said at a recent conference that 696,000 inventive patents were approved in 2021.Shen Changyu, the NIPA's director, presented the conference with a work report outlining recent developmen...

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...

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.

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

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.