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News of Via Licensing Alliance selling its HEVC/VCC pools and a $1.5 million win for Davis Polk were also among the top talking points

Patent offices in Europe are considering whether to change their approach to the patenting of stem cell-related inventions following a Court of Justice ruling last month

A university study has revealed that counterfeiting is costing Indonesia’s economy at least Rp43.2 trillion ($4.7 billion) a year in lost taxes

Baidu may be China’s biggest web services company and one of the top 10 most visited sites in the world, but a series of high-profile copyright complaints have put the group on the defensive in 2011

Germany has been hosting a game of musical chairs this past month or so, with a number of people switching roles and firms. First, Allen & Overy has hired partner Jens Matthes (far right) from Linklaters to lead its German IP team. Matthes, who had managed Linklaters' German IP practice since 2008, will join A&O's Dusseldorf office. He specialises in trade marks, design and patents, and also has experience in competition and licensing.

The region's foremost female lawyers celebrated at Euromoney Legal Media Group's second annual Asia Women in Business Law Awards at the Renaissance Harbour View Hotel in Hong Kong last night. Hutchison Whampoa's Edith Shih and The Women's Foundation's Kay McArdle delivered the keynote addresses to an audience of in-house and private practice lawyers.

Following the Actavis and Lundbeck decisions, branded pharma companies and generics will be reluctant to settle disputes. That is bad news for innovation and for patients

French winemaker Castel has been ordered to pay RMB33.73 million ($5.5 million) in damages to a wine importer who held the registration to a popular Chinese transliteration of its brand

The Council of the European Union has appointed Théophile Margellos as President of the Boards of Appeal of OHIM. He succeeds Paul Maier, who has moved to head up the new Observatory on IP Enforcement at the Office, and will take up the post in October. Margellos has been chair of the First Board and Third Board, handling trade marks and designs cases respectively, and also coordinated the OHIM mediation team. He has studied in Greece, France and Germany and has previously worked at the Court of Justice of the EU and the European Commission. He has also worked as an IP lawyer and taught law at the University of Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens.

James Nurton, London