Clifford Chance
Global Intellectual Property Newsletter Issue 01/2015
21 January 2015
We welcome you to join us in ringing in 2015 with the new issue of Clifford Chance's Global Intellectual Property Newsletter. With the growing presence of and greater dependence on technology, we recognise our clients' need to keep abreast of the latest developments in intellectual property law. In this quarterly publication, we provide an over-view of the most recent IP developments in major jurisdictions around the world.
In this January issue, we address certain recent notable European court decisions, including the CJEU's ruling regarding copyright infringement claims based on hyperlinking to copyright protected work, the Supreme Court of Spain and Madrid Court of Appeal's guidance in connection with rights to join IPR holders in infringement proceedings and associated claims to damages, and the CJEU's clarification of interna-tional jurisdiction rules relating to Community trademark infringement.
We also cover new trends and upcoming regulations in connection with the European patent with unitary effect, the ownership of IP created by R&D activities at Polish public academic institutions, and the Czech Cybersecurity Act. We also outline for you some key decisions in the medical and healthcare sector regarding patentability of medical uses and enforcement of method patents in China.
Lastly we are happy to introduce a new feature of our Global Intellectual Property Newsletter, the Industry Highlight. In each issue we are providing a non IP-related topic for interested readers. Our first article is regarding the proposed Medical Device Regulation and its anticipated impact on the European Medical Device legislation.
