An interesting discussion on the reform of Brazilian patent law inspired by Indian laws like disallowance of patents on new forms of known substances, is featured in the Article section of November 2013 issue of IPR Amicus. Ratio Decidendi includes rejection of application for compulsory license, right of legal practitioner to file Form T-5 and an English court ruling on scope of assignment of future rights in copyright. Besides the Google ruling on fairuse in digitising content, amendments to filing of divisional patents announced by the EPO and IPO‘s launch of trademark utility are part of the News Nuggets section.
