News & Reports

Highlights from the AIPPI Spring Meeting in Venice
The first edition of the AIPPI Spring Meeting took place today at the prestigious Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal in Venice. The programme covered a broad range of intellectual property topics, with workshop discussions led by renowned IP experts.

2023 AIPPI China Youth IP Seminar
2023 AIPPI China Youth IP Seminar was held successfully in Chongli of Hebei Province, the venue of skiing events of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games on 17-18 March 2023 with more than 110 attendees.

The Japanese group’s journal “A.I.P.P.I.” latest issue (Vol 48, No.1) is now available to all AIPPI members
The AIPPI Japanese Group is pleased to inform you that the latest issue (Vol 48, No.1) of the Japanese Group's e-Journal "A.I.P.P.I." is now available to all AIPPI members. You can view the contents page for this issue below.
ChatGPT and Swiss copyright law: a brief and selected overview
Recently launched ChatGPT (for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer”) is on everyone’s lips. This chatbot, developed by OpenAI, an American artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory, seemingly takes AI to another level and produces text that is hardly distinguishable from human-written content.
Enforcement of the Myanmar Trademark Law 2019
The Republic of the Union of Myanmar State Administration Council issued its Notification No. 82/2023 on 10 March 2023, announcing that the Trademark Law enacted on 20 January 2019 will enter into force on 1 April 2023.

Higher damages are awarded in recent patent infringement lawsuits in Japan
Whether it is true or not, there has been a repeated criticizm over Japanese patent infringement litigation system that awarded damages amounts are not high enough to incentivize patent holders to bring infringement lawsuits in Japan.