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Managing IP’s Global Awards Dinner recognising outstanding work in IP in the past year takes place in London on April 17. Winners will be selected from the following shortlists

Trade mark users' groups have welcomed OHIM's strategic plan, approved last week, but warned that sound financial management is crucial to its success

The Court of Appeal in London has today upheld a ruling that headlines and web links taken from newspapers’ websites are protected by copyright

Argentina TRADE MARK PROSECUTION Tier 1 G Breuer Marval, O'Farrell & Mairal Tier 2 Hausheer Belgrano & Fernandez Noetinger & Armando Obligado & Cía Richelet & Richelet Tier 3 Bruchou, Fernandez Madero & Lombardi De Las Carreras & Chaloupka Ferrer Reyes, Tellechea & Bouche Pérez Alati, Grondona, Benites, Arntsen & Martínez de Hoz Sena & Berton Moreno Tier 4 Baker & McKenzie Barbat Clarke, Modet & Co Moeller & Co Palacio & Asociados

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

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