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UK inventor and entrepreneur James Dyson claimed this week that China favours local companies when it grants patents, issuing them with IP rights up to five times faster than foreign applicants. But is he right?

WIPO member states make top appointments WIPO member states last month backed all of director-general Francis Gurry's proposals for the deputy and assistant director-general positions. The deputy directors-general will be: Geoffrey Onyeama (Nigeria) who will be responsible for development; James Pooley (US) in charge of patents; Binying Wang (China), the only woman appointee, who will look after trade marks, industrial designs and geographical indications; and Johannes Christian Wichard (Germany) who will have responsibility for the new portfolio of global issues, which includes external relations and communications.

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The High Court in London has ruled that web links and headlines taken from newspapers’ websites are protected by copyright

The shortlist for the third annual Euromoney Legal Media Group Europe Women in Business Law Awards has been published

At 10.30 am today the doors to Court 1 at the UK Supreme Court were opened to hear the Court’s first patent case, Human Genome Sciences v Eli Lilly

China's Supreme People's Court has explained how IP trials should be conducted in the economic crisis in a formal Opinion that may result in courts granting fewer injunctions

‘Easy’ Stelios loses his cool over legal fees, there’s a shock submission in the Managing IP Christmas competition, and Judge Randall Rader sings Honky Tonk Women

Last week a UDRP decision was the first three-person panel to back the so-called Octogen line, which challenges the literal interpretation of bad faith use and registration. One of the panel, Andrew F Christie, spoke to Managing Internet IP