Cover Story

• Look behind the salaries

  

  A survey of the largest IP practices in the US reveals rising compensation, but only at general-practice firms. And partners are having a hard time everywhere. Alli Pyrah explains who is hiring and what lawyers they need

Features

• The Anti-Counterfeiting Map

• Comment: Harnessing the promise of IP

  

  David Kappos argues that IP systems must continue to evolve – and keep in mind how they have succeeded in the past

• Fluid marks 2.0: Protecting a dynamic brand

  

  Many companies now adopt variable brand identities to communicate with consumers. Lisa Pearson offers practical tips on using and protecting fluid trade marks

• How to navigate China’s employee remuneration rules

  China’s remuneration requirements for employee-inventors can cause trouble for unwary employers. Catherine Zheng explains how to avoid problems arising from employee-created intellectual property

• The IP issues of crowdfunding

  

  The speed and simplicity of crowdfunding creates IP issues for users, investors and IP holders. Gwilym Roberts and Mark Nowotarski investigate the phenomenon

• Don’t be left standing at the courthouse door

  

  David Bell and Will O’Neill explain how the legal concept of standing is becoming a central argument in high-profile social media litigation – and how to use it as a first line of defence in litigation

• A global strategy on grey goods

  

  Preventing parallel imports requires knowledge not just of local IP law, but consumer and contractual law as well. Five authors from five jurisdictions lay out their local strategy

• The 2013 Managing IP awards

  

  The Global and North America awards, 2013

• Global Awards 2013: International winners

  The cross-border winners from the Managing IP Global Awards, including European winners, the best work at OHIM and the EPO, and the best international firm. Plus in-house and individual achievement awards

• North America Awards 2013: Regional and state winners

  The best firms last year in regions across the United States and - for the first time - the best individual litigators in 12 different states

• North America Awards 2013: National winners

  The firms of the year and cases of the year in the US and Canada, as awarded at the North America Awards in Washington, DC last month. Plus in-house and individual achievement awards

News Analysis

• Indian Supreme Court rules Glivec invalid

• Are generics to blame for costly drugs?

• Key US figures speak out at Patent Forum

IP Clinic

• IP Clinic: How has first-inventor-to-file changed patent strategy?

  

  The US now has a first-to-file system, thanks to the America Invents Act. How are different parties reacting?

News in Brief

• Patents news

• Trade mark news

• Copyright news

• Moves: INTA announces chief executive

Diary

• Editorial: What is a fluid mark?

• Utynam's Heirs

  IP lawyers show their generosity at the Global Awards, OHIM serves bubbly rather than tea, and we ask that age-old question: what should a novel smell like?

Country Updates

• Africa - The legacy of Gift Sibanda

• Argentina - How to protect confidential information

• Australia - Innovation patents found invalid

• Austria - Demergers and ongoing rights to a mark

• Belgium - New law will not allow changes to priority claim

• Canada - Anti-counterfeiting legislation proposed

• China: Trade marks - Contradictory rulings on non-use

• European Patent Office - New filing record

• France - Court clarifies interest in non-use actions

• Germany - Supreme Court confirms restrictive view on stem cells

• India - Supreme Court rules in Novartis case

• Japan - How Crocodile won back its trade mark

• Malaysia - The new competition law and its impact on IP

• Mexico - PPH programmes in Mexico

• New Zealand - Case overturned on similar domain names

• Pakistan - How to avoid compulsory licences

• The Philippines - IP Association challenges Madrid Protocol

• Russia - Is this squirrel a danger to the public?

• Singapore - Practice to change on related claims in foreign patents

• South Korea - Court changes precedent on domain names

• Taiwan - Rejection of Miss Wu mark prompts debate

• US: Trade marks - Questions left unanswered by Louboutin case