Francesco Bonini of Studio Bonini breaks down the case Chapter 4 Corp.DBA Supreme v International Brand Firm and others: Supreme is distinctive for wide gained recognition and the court hits counterfeiters with Injunction order.

Tania Clark, President of The Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (CITMA), discusses CITMA’s recent achievements and developments over the past three years.

Guanbin XIE, Bin ZHANG and Xiao WANG, of Lifang & Partners, discuss malicious trademark registration practices in China and what measures are in place to safeguard against them.

Dr. Carsten Menebröcker and Valeska Töbelmann of CMS discuss enforcing IP rights through preliminary injunctions in Germany.

Paulo Parente Marques Mendes, Bárbara Angela Leitão and Eriça Tomimaru from Brazil’s leading IP office Di Blasi, Parente & Associados explore the updates on the backlog reduction in the trademark sector and what to expect when Brazil enters the Madrid Protocol.

Karl Doane, Senior Product Manager at CompuMark, examines the rising infringement of industrial designs.

Natalia Radchenko, Trademark Attorney at Gorodissky & Partners, discusses the differences with well-known trademarks in Russia.

Senior Associate Gerardo Parra gives brief overview of 2018 amendments to the Industrial Property Law.

Inês Duarte Tavares, IP Consultant for Inventa International, discusses the battle against counterfeits in Nigeria.

Joanna Piłka of PATPOL explains why it is worth protecting trademarks in Poland, walks through the trademark registration system in Poland and points out some important issues to keep in mind.

Micheline Dessureault, partner at Joli-Coeur Lacasse Avocats, talks about how trademark practitioners focused on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face very different challenges from those of practitioners serving firms that target major portfolio clients.

Shirley Ya LIN & Nikita Min XUE of HongFangLaw examine the tech company Tencent’s successful challenge against the Chinese trademark review administration and give their take on this case and its implications, analyzing why the Tencent case is unique and how sound marks could be registrable in China.

Introducing our newly created segment: Service Provider Spotlight. This segment gives a platform for IP service providers to thoroughly explain their system, alongside other systems which provide the same, or different services, to create a holistic one-stop database for all your IP admin needs.

Soumik Chakraborty and Suhrita Majumdar of S. Majumdar & Co. walk-through the joining causes of action in trademark & designs cases.

Eduardo Machado, senior partner at Montaury Pimenta, Machado & Vieira de Mello, explains Brazil’s delay in joining the Madrid Protocol and the benefits of joining.

Sergio Braz of Braz and Associates looks at the 20-year journey the IP system has undergone in Mozambique.

Marina Karaldina from Patentica analyzes the positive changes brought by the recent amendment to the Russian Civil Code allowing registration of distinctive combinations.

Hongxia WU of CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office walks through the process of how well-known trademarks can be identified in China.

Pat Breslin, CEO of Breslin Consulting LLP, discusses the pivotal roles that trademarks and related IP play in global IP disputes, in the contexts of globalization and the expanding digital economy.

VP Marketing at Brandstock Group Elena Galletti explains the benefit legal teams derive from working with service providers.

Dydra Donath, partner at Mewburn Ellis, discusses the recent CJEU decision on the long-running battle between TSWA and Germany distillery Waldhorn over the use of the word ‘Glen’.

Attorney at law and patent attorney for ZM Legal, Klaudia Błach-Morysińska, walks through the new regulations on Polish tax and its implications on IP rights.

Sergey Zuykov and Alexandra Pelikh of Zuykov and Partners discuss a case which saw the confrontation of the tea companies May and Orimi, which ended with the exclusion of the word element “HIGHLAND” from the legal protection in the trademarks of LLC Orimi.

Mr. Nick Ji of Corner Stone & Partners explores the possibility of overcoming a trademark refusal with the help of a co-existence agreement / letter of consent.

Steven Decesare and Sharon Xuereb of Camilleri Preziosi discuss the trademark landscape in Malta.

For Mental Health Awareness Week (13-19 May), LawCare CEO Elizabeth Rimmer looks at what legal workplaces can do to look after the wellbeing of their workforce.