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  • Biotechnology and e-commerce have raised the demand for and created a shortage of specialized IP attorneys in the US. Law firms are under pressure to raise recruitment levels and reduce attrition. Tabitha Parker investigates
  • Trade mark practitioners report record workloads, greater demands from clients and increased competition. James Nurton and Tabitha Parker investigate the latest trends in the second part of MIP’s fifth annual survey of the world’s leading IP firms
  • It is widely believed that change is as good as a rest. Certainly this seems to be the case in the Asia-Pacific, although unfortunately, little has changed and no one has had any rest. The internet dominated the Asian-Pacific scene in last year's survey and its impact is still reverberating through IP practices. If anything it is registering even higher on the Richter scale. Intellectual property lawyers have never been so busy.
  • Respect for IP rights in China will come under severe strain once the country joins the WTO, as infringers benefit from open markets. But China will not be lacking in assistance from overseas in its attempts to enforce IP rights. Ralph Cunningham reports
  • On October 1 2000 two new Acts entered into force connected with industrial property rights. They concern biotechnological inventions and industrial designs. As both of them are important, the following is a brief summary of them.
  • Alexander von Mühlendahl, vice-president, OHIM in Alicante
  • ? JAPAN: Gene Logic and Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, the Japanese subsidiary of Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Ltd, announced an alliance granting Amersham distribution rights to market and sell Gene Logic's products to the Japanese market. Financial terms were not disclosed.
  • The dispute over parallel imports of cigarettes bearing the trade mark BELMONT (Bigott v Philip Morris) has been developing over several years, under the industrial property laws of the Andean Community.
  • ? CHINA: Proctor and Gamble has won its trade mark infringement case against Shanghai Chenxuan Zhineng Science and Technology Development Co for registering the name safeguard.com.cn which P&G registered in China in 1976.
  • Intellectual property management has, historically, been concerned with protection issues. In the first of three articles on IP value issues, Tony Samuel explains why value is the prime reason for IP protection