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AIPPI 2025: Tackling AI’s impact on patent disclosure and inventorship

AI in innovation challenges patent law on how much of its work should be disclosed.

Shortlist Revealed for the 2025 Asia IP Awards

AIPPI 2025: An elegant evening of Kabuki

AIPPI delegates found themselves immersed in Japanese theatre.

AIPPI 2025: The push for authentic sustainability

In today’s market, sustainability claims are everywhere. Do your customers understand yours?

Chinese utility model patents: An underestimated protection weapon for IP

The utility model is increasingly used to protect “small inventions” in China. – Yingying Shen

The microRNA discovery: Singapore and Philippine patent applications

The impact of the 2024 Nobel Prize laureate(s) in Physiology or Medicine on patent applications in Singapore and the Philippines.

Patsnap launches first AI patent novelty search benchmarking tool

PatentBench is integrated with RAG for high quality, low-hallucination search results

In which markets should you file for patent protection?

How do businesses – especially startups – decide where to file new patent applications? Espie Angelica A. de Leon

Minimizing disputes in tech and IP licensing agreements

How do you transform potential conflict into lasting, trust-based partnerships? — Excel V. Dyquiangco

One registered design, two cancellation petitions, same prior art, different outcomes … and the appe...

While prior registration of a design in India is ground for cancellation of a registered design, a prior registration outside India is not.

Quality versus quantity

Is India’s patent office sacrificing quality to meet Office Order 34’s disposal targets? — Espie Angelica A. de Leon

Indonesia implements new annual reporting rule for all patent holders

Indonesia requires annual patent working statements, with noncompliance risking loss of rights.

GI filings in India jump by 380 percent over five-year period

Total IP filings increased by 44 percent, with GI filings posting biggest increase.

Remembering Lila Quirino

In honour of Lila Quirino, a kind, determined and respected IP lawyer.

India, UK sign Free Trade Agreement in London during PM Modi’s visit

FTA excludes patent term extension, data exclusivity provisions and protects Indian GIs.