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  • Global Awards 2013: shortlists

    February 25, 2013

    Managing IP’s Global Awards Dinner recognising outstanding work in IP in the past year takes place in London on April 17. Winners will be selected from the following shortlists

  • Largest ever MIP survey reveals the world’s leading patent firms

    February 06, 2013

    The patent rankings of the 2013 IP Survey have been released, with mergers, splits and hires leading to changes in the Europe and Asia tables

  • Is arbitration right for you? WIPO’s Ignacio de Castro provides the answer

    November 06, 2012

    The smartphone wars have conjured up the spectre of protracted IP litigation spread around the world. The prospect of fighting simultaneous, costly court battles in different continents is enough to keep even the most grizzled in-house counsel awake at night. But Ignacio de Castro of WIPO’s Arbitration and Mediation Center has a remedy for dispute-induced insomnia

  • Roundtables and tobacco packaging complaints: what's on this week

    August 28, 2012

    Managing IP lists the IP-related events and meetings taking place this week

  • Singapore to overhaul patent system

    June 07, 2012

    The Patents (Amendment) Bill would change Singapore from a self-assessment regime to a positive grant system in line with major jurisdictions such as the US and Europe. What effect will the changes have on patent owners?

  • Tax planners see advantages in Singapore

    May 11, 2012

    Is Singapore the most tax-friendly location for holding IP rights? According to speakers at a seminar in Hong Kong today, it might be

  • IP quiz, March 19 to 23

    March 23, 2012

    How many questions on the week’s IP news can you answer?

  • Singapore to allow foreign patent agents

    March 21, 2012

    The Ministry of Law has proposed an amendment to the Patents Act that will allow foreign-registered patent agents to conduct offshore work in Singapore

  • Hogan Lovells wins global IP award

    March 15, 2012

    Hogan Lovells won the inaugural global IP firm of the year award at tonight’s Managing IP Awards Dinner in London

  • Managing IP Global Awards 2012 – shortlists revealed

    January 27, 2012

    Free access: The nominations for Managing IP’s Global Awards 2012 have been announced

  • Interview: Singapore’s licensing leader

    December 14, 2011

    Peter Ollier interviews Suresh Sachi, general counsel of A*Star, Singapore’s government research agency, about structuring an in-house team, the art of deal making and the city state’s drive to become an IP hub

  • Event report: why due diligence matters in Asia

    November 16, 2011

    Getting IP due diligence right is vital for helping to improve the market for technology transfer in Asia, said speakers at an LES event in Singapore last week

  • The most successful states for innovation

    June 30, 2011

    Switzerland, Sweden and Singapore have been rated the most innovative in an index of 125 economies

  • Tips on buying IP in Asia

    June 22, 2011

    Foreign companies looking to buy IP assets in Asia need to bear in mind a few differences, said speakers at this year’s China-International IP Forum in Beijing

  • Asia celebrates World IP Day

    April 26, 2011

    Across the Asia-Pacific region IP offices have marked World IP Day with seminars, posters, information campaigns and the destruction of counterfeits

  • Global awards recognise IP leaders

    April 07, 2011

    Law firms Bird & Bird, Baker & McKenzie and Hogan Lovells were among those celebrating at last week’s Managing IP Global Awards Dinner

  • Lawyers down under slam US proposal for IP treaty

    March 25, 2011

    Lawyers in Australia and New Zealand have strongly criticised a leaked US draft of the IP chapter of a multilateral free-trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership

  • Why IP and Curaçao don’t mix

    January 14, 2011

    As developed countries try to increase their tax revenue to reduce fiscal deficits, companies that move their IP into tax-efficient jurisdictions will come under increasing scrutiny

  • Judges take on technology challenge

    January 13, 2011

    Judges from the US, EU and China have claimed that, in the absence of legal reform, they will have to be responsible for helping the law keep pace with technology

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