| Overview of Recent Decision by the IP High Court on Patent Term Extension (PTE) in Japan |
| Yasumasa Sasaki – Nakamura & Partners (Japan) |
| In Japan, the term of patents relating to pharmaceuticals and similar products may be extended for up to five years to compensate for the period during which the patented invention could not be practiced due to the regulatory approval process. Patents … |
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| Introduction of Korean Style Discovery System |
| Sun-Keun Yoon – Kim & Chang (Republic of Korea) |
| On February 19, 2026, the Act on the Promotion of Mutually Beneficial Cooperation between Large Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (“SME”) (the “Mutual Cooperation Act”), which centers on the introduction of the “K-Discovery … |
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| Korean Supreme Court Confirms That Product Shapes Can Serve Dual Functions as Designs and Trademarks |
| Sunmi Lee – Lee & Mock IP (Republic of Korea) |
| The Supreme Court of Korea has delivered a judgment clarifying that design protection and trademark protection are neither mutually exclusive nor elective under intellectual property law. Overturning a prior decision by the IP High Court, the Supreme … |
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| Tackling Digital Piracy in India |
| Essenese Obhan, Yogita Rathore – Obhan Mason (India) |
| Conventional injunctions have proved inadequate to curb online piracy. Rogue websites can evade static blocking orders by adopting or redirecting users to new domain names, creating mirror websites or using alphanumeric domain variations. Rights holders … |
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| India’s DABUS Decision and the Global AI Copyright Debate |
| Suhrita Majumdar and Manya Jain, S Majumdar & Co., India (India) |
| Can a machine be an author? India’s Copyright Office has answered: not yet, and not without Parliament’s intervention. As artificial intelligence increasingly generates commercially valuable images, music, text and audiovisual content that … |
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| Pros and Cons of Relying on a Prior Art Search Report from a Corresponding Patent Application When Requesting Examination in Singapore |
| Desmond Tan, FPA Patent Attorneys; Aaron Koh, Davies Collison Cave (Singapore) |
| Introduction Singapore’s patent system allows applicants the option to request local examination based on prior art search results of a corresponding foreign/related patent application issued by a prescribed patent office under the Singapore … |
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| Singapore Court of Appeal Clarifies Approach to Statutory Damages for Counterfeit Marks |
| Gladys Tan, David Llewelyn & Co LLC (Singapore) |
| In Louis Vuitton Malletier v Ng Hoe Seng (formerly trading as EMCASE SG) [2026] SGCA 22, the Singapore Court of Appeal held that the statutory damages limits for trade mark infringement involving counterfeit marks apply per type of goods and per action, … |
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| Current Status of Accelerated Examination for Patent Applications in Taiwan |
| WANG, Sz-Han (Hanna WANG), IP Winner International Patent Office (Taiwan) |
| The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) currently offers three domestic programs to speed up the first-instance examination of invention patent applications. Each can be requested only after TIPO has notified the applicant that substantive examination … |
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