New Regulations have gone into effect in Brazil, which remove the requirement to record a royalty-free trademark license when the respective parties to the license agreement are “related”, as...

The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office has published new regulations which modify the evidentiary and procedural aspects of forfeiture actions against patents and trademark registrations on the grounds of non-working and non-use,...

The government of Bosnia and Herzegovina deposited with the World Intellectual Property Organization a declaration that, as a successor state of former Yugoslavia, the following international intellectual property arrangements continue to apply in...

The Benelux Court of Justice recently decided that Burberrys Ltd. was entitled to trademark protection for its well known tartan...

The term within which owners of former USSR and Russian trademark applications and registrations, filed prior to and in effect on June 7,...

Austria has for the first time adopted a utility model...