China has joined WIPOs Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs, marking a major development for the International Design System, as well as the Marrakesh Treaty, bringing one of the world’s great cultural and literary traditions into the Marrakesh community.WIPO Directo

ABU DHABI – As the United Arab Emirates continues to improve the Intellectual Property environment to be an attractive market for businesses, it decided to bring legal reform to the laws relating to Intellectual Property. The new IP laws were approved by Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President

The Korean National Assembly passed a revision bill to the Korean Patent Act (“KPA”) that will go into effect on April 20, 2022. The revision primarily pertains to measures designed to ease the prosecuting and acquiring of patents by way of, inter alia, introducing: extension of time to respond to a

On 9 December 2021, the CARUFORUM Directorate and the CARIFORUM Intellectual Property and Innovation Project, CarIPI, will be launching a new consultation tool. Caribbean TMclass, a regional interface of TMclass.This classification tool developed by the European Union Intelletual Property Office (EU

FirstLaw is happy to announce that one of the authors, Kyeyoung Lee, a partner in our Electronics Group, has been appointed by the President as one of nine commissioners at the Korea Trade Commission (KTC) to serve a term of three years. This article presents remedies that can be sought by IPR holde