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  • Rights owners will be happy to hear that the Dubai Customs Authority has recently announced its plans to set up a dedicated Intellectual Property Unit (IPU) to help curb the import, export and transshipment of counterfeit goods and products through all ports, including the Jebel Ali Free Zone Port. This is the first unit of its kind in the region and promises a brighter future for international brand owners.
  • A number of recent cases confirm that disparities remain in how European and US courts tackle conflicts between competition and intellectual property laws. Companies need to be aware of the impact competition rules can have on the value of their IP, say Isabel Davies, Bruno Lebrun and Andreas Stargard of Howrey
  • A monthly column devoted to IP curiosities and controversies, named in honour of John of Utynam – who became the world's first recorded patent owner in 1449
  • MIP received the following letter from US patent owner Vergil L Daughtery, III, in reaction to Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner's article on 'How to fix the US patent system', in the May 2005 issue
  • Rule 126 of the Philippine Rules of Court says that a search warrant cannot be issued except upon probable cause. In the case of Sony Music Entertainment (Phils), et al v Hon. Judge Dolores Español et al (G.R. No 156804, March 14 2005), Sony learned this rule the hard way.
  • In view of the high priority the Malaysian government gives to intellectual property, the Malaysian Intellectual Property Corporation (MyIPO) has undertaken the task of speeding up patent registration in the country. As of last year, at least 33,000 patent applications had been filed with MyIPO and that figure is expected to rise sharply. In view of this huge growth and the impending backlog of applications, the Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs has announced that MyIPO will hire between 42 and 100 external examiners to help it assess and examine patent applications. These external examiners will come from various technical organizations, including the Standards and Industrial Research Institute (SIRIM). In addition to being a source of external examiners, SIRIM is also training an additional 500 patent examiners who will eventually be recruited by MyIPO to assist in expediting the registration process.
  • As reported in the April issue of MIP, the implementation of the so-called biotech directive (EU directive 98/44/EC) into the German Patent Act (GPA) has become effective. This implementation, however, does not only affect material patent law with respect to biotechnological inventions, but also led to a change of §24 GPA regulating the requirements of compulsory licences.