Managing IP is part of Legal Benchmarking Limited, 1-2 Paris Gardens, London, SE1 8ND

Copyright © Legal Benchmarking Limited and its affiliated companies 2025

Accessibility | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Modern Slavery Statement

Search results for

There are 21,957 results that match your search.21,957 results
  • In the same month that Pfizer scientists from the company´ s laboratories in England received the French Prix Galien award for their discovery and development of Viagra, the drugs company has lost a crucial patent protecting the $332 million drug, clearing the way for rival treatments.
  • Bertelsmann, one of five companies suing Napster for copyright infringement, has offered to loan Napster the funds it needs to develop a secure file-sharing service.
  • Parallel importers, for so long the bugbear of companies operating within Europe, suffered a significant setback last month when a decision against the drugs company Bayer was overturned.
  • As competition between firms for trade mark work increases, Ann Chapman reveals the latest trends in European practice
  • In the second of three articles on IP value issues, Tony Samuel and Graeme Berry query why organizations do not insure their most valuable asset, intellectual property.
  • The rules governing intellectual property in the five countries of the Andean Pact have been revised. Cecilia Falconi examines the key aspects of the new legislation.
  • In preparation for joining the WTO, China has amended its patent law. Jiwen Chen says the changes will enhance protection and simplify application procedures and enforcement
  • Last month, German pharmaceutical company Bayer became the latest multinational to set-up a research and development centre in Shanghai. Its presence brings the total of foreign investors in the area to 32, a figure that includes some of the world's biggest high-tech powerhouses. The invasion is prompting a major overhaul of IP protection
  • Enforcement of rights in China has not had a good press. But, as James W Gould reports, improved institutions and procedures mean that rights owners can now have more confidence in the courts
  • The Andean Community (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia) has now issued the new Decision 486 (the Decision), with 280 articles, that replaces Decision 344, covering a Common Andean Industrial Property Code. The Decision does not amend the prior legislation, but puts out an encyclopedic and repetitive text of which the salient chapters are one on integrated circuits and another on unfair competition. We shall here focus en the latter.