📑 In a landmark ruling, the European Patent Office (EPO) has rejected two patent applications1 wherein request was lodged with the EPO for designating the machine (Artificial Intelligence) as an “inventor”.The ground cited for rejecting the aforementioned patent applications is that

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📁 The Federal Court recently revisited its own jurisdiction to hear an appeal which lies in opposition against the registration of a trademark under Section 28 of the Trade Marks Act 1976 (“TMA”) in the case of Merck KGaA v Leno Marketing (M) Sdn Bhd [2018] MYFC 14. It was held that the

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🛡️ Protecting a geographical indication (GI) enables those who have the right to use the indication to take measures against others who use it without permission and benefit from its reputation (“free-riders”). A geographical indication’s reputation is a valuable, collective, and intangible

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📱 A new mobile app touted as the world’s first trademark registration mobile app will allow businesses and entrepreneurs to file their trademarks directly with the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) on their mobile devices.

Named IPOS Go, the app has a “simplified user interface

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📑 ❝ Intellectual property, more than ever, is a line drawn around information, which asserts that despite having been set loose in the world – and having, inevitably, been created out of an individual’s relationship with the world – that information retains some connection with

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