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  • The insurance industry has dragged its feet over IP risk management but things are changing rapidly, explains Robert Chase
  • New plant variety protection legislation favours breeders over farmers, say protestors. Irrespective of the arguments, the first-to-file rule means you must to move quickly to secure your rights, argue Chris Lim and Rommel Casis
  • Michael Geist, law professor, University of Ottawa, and director of e-commerce law, Goodmans LLP, Toronto
  • Law no. 202 on the assurance of the abidance by the intellectual property rights during Customs operations was adopted at the end of 2000 and this was followed by the Methodological Norms for the enforcement of Law no 202/2000 on March 8 2001.
  • The ECJ’s ruling in Philips v Remington has dealt a blow to trade mark owners hoping to register shape marks in Europe. Chris McLeod examines the decision
  • In most countries, the most expensive part of prosecuting a patent application is the cost of search and examination. Singapore took a positive approach by allowing an applicant to rely on search and examination results for a corresponding application in lieu of search and examination of the Singapore application. No official fees are imposed on an applicant who chooses to do so. For this purpose, corresponding applications from Australia, Canada, the EPO, UK, US and PCT (not designating Singapore) may be used. A corresponding application must relate to substantially the same invention and be connected to the Singapore application by a priority claim, for example, a common priority claim.
  • The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's infamous Festo decision has led to countless debates as to how careful one should now be when amending the claims of US patent applications during prosecution before the USPTO. The US Supreme Court, in its judgment rendered in May 2002, has partially softened the harsh impact of the CAFC's original decision, which applied a file wrapper estoppel completely barring the use of the doctrine of equivalents in subsequent infringement proceedings as far as the amended portion of the claim was concerned.
  • In a surprise arbitration decision, Nike has lost its complaint over five domain names registered by a Korean company.
  • A controversial patent granted to Edinburgh University has been curtailed to exclude human or animal embryonic stem cells.
  • The UK Court of Appeal has cleared a rival of biotech heavyweight Amgen of patent infringement, in a decision viewed as restoring balance to the patent system.