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Patents
Presidential Decree No. 229 in Kazakhstan sparks call for amendment
20 October 2020Stakeholders met at a roundtable meeting earlier this year at Bolotov & Partners in Almaty to discuss Presidential Decree No. 229, signed by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev late last year.
IPOPHL Sees Bigger Global Role in Years Ahead
20 October 2020IPOPHL recently shared with peers in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) its experience in fostering university innovations to enter the global patents system.
2020 Asia IP Patent Rankings
30 September 2020And the best patent law firms in APAC are...
New Zealand businesses examining intellectual property assets, rights
12 October 2020Companies turn to IP to help beat the business challenges of Covid 19.
IP registrations in Indonesia increasing
12 October 2020The Covid 19 scenario in Indonesia may be bleak but the picture is pretty for IP, thanks to its online system.
Processing Third-Party Observations in Taiwan
09 October 2020TIPO promulgated an Operational direction for processing Third-Party Observation (Submission)
The coding lawyer decoded
30 September 2020Whether designed to improve a lawyer’s knowledge of the language of computers or merely to improve his problem solving ability, coding lawyers are everywhere.
A second-round victory for brand drug owners against generics who fail to declare relevant patents u...
30 September 2020The latest developments regarding cases linked to Singapore's Patent Linkage Regime.
Patents in Space
06 October 2020The conflict between IP Rights and Space Law.
100 steps to becoming an IP power country
30 September 2020China’s central government has drawn up a plan of 100 steps to make the country into an IP powerhouse. Asia IP gets reactions from lawyers across Beijing.
Spreading IP Education to School Systems
05 October 2020The IPOPHL achieves a big step towards mainstreaming Intellectual Property in high school.
How the new patent law impacts new technologies in China
30 September 2020As China has quickly emerged as a hub for computer technology, the government has acted to ensure the country’s laws keep pace. How does the country’s new patent law impact new technologies?
Looking at patentability exceptions through a judicial lens
30 September 2020It is high time to take a new look at the examination approach towards the inventions preempted under Section 3. D.P.S Parmar explains why.
Patent invalidation profile and strategy in China
30 September 2020A Supreme Court judicial interpretation is bringing changes to the adjudication of patent invalidity cases in China. Guanyang Yao and Jian Zhang explain what is needed to win before the Patent Reexamination and Invalidation Department and the courts.
Drug patenting and the search for a Covid vaccine
29 September 2020The race to develop a vaccine for Covid-19 is on. How does drug patenting affect the search for a vaccine?