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Extricating the UK from the European Union IP Systems – Contrasting Approaches Across the Channel | Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The European Union (“ EU”) has shaped and developed Intellectual property (“ IP”) policy extensively over the years. IP law in EU member states is today largely a matter of EU law. Key areas of IP are dominated by EU rights and institutions. Separating the United Kingdom (“ UK”) out of those systems can be a complicated matter. As in many other areas, the UK and the EU handled the separation in very different ways.  In principle, the implications of Britain’s withdrawal from the EU in relation to IP are pretty obvious and unequivocal. The UK ceases to be part of the EU trademark and design systems (managed by the EUIPO) which means that from now on trademark and design registrations have to be secured locally. More generally, EU law and the decisions of the EU courts no longer apply in the UK and in the future the UK can develop and revise its laws independently. Those are the simple facts.

Preparations for amending Thailand s Patent Act gather pace | Managing Intellectual Property

Preparations for amending Thailand’s Patent Act gather pace Sponsored by December 09 2020 October 31 2020, marked the closing of the public comment period for Thailand s proposed amendments to the Patent Act B.E. 2522 (1979). The Department of Intellectual Property (DIP) had published its latest draft of the amendments on September 30 for the month-long period of public feedback. The process of drafting amendments has been pending for several years, but it began to take a higher profile in February 2018 with the convening of public hearings on the proposed new legislation. After a series of committee meetings through November of that year, the cabinet approved a set of proposed amendments in January 2019.

The Long-Awaited Fourth Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law: An In-Depth Look

“The Song of the Pipa Player” On October 17, 2020, the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People’s Congress (China’s top legislature) passed the Fourth Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law, which will become effective on June 1, 2021 (“Effective Date”). As I was digesting the news and browsing through the 29 newly published changes made to the previous version of the Chinese Patent Law, which was passed in 2008, a line from “The Song of the Pipa Player”, a popular poem written in 816 A.D. by Bai Juyi (one of the three most famous poets in China’s Tang Dynasty), came to mind: “Only after our repeated calls did she appear; her face half hidden behind the pipa she held.”

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