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On January 1 2011 Switzerland will for the first time in its history put into force unified civil procedure rules applying to the whole country. To date, each of the 26 cantons apply different procedural statutes.

Peter Ollier reports on the Australian government’s plans to introduce a hardline packaging regime for cigarettes, and how the tobacco industry plans to oppose it

According to the Vietnam National Internet Centre (VNNIC), there have been hundreds of complaints requesting the withdrawal of registered .vn domain names. The most popular ground for such complaints is that the registered domain names are identical to complainants' registered trademarks or trade names. Many complainants are owners of famous trade marks. As a result of this situation, on March 17 2010, the VNNIC issued Guidelines on Handling of Disputed ".vn" Domain Names.

After receiving notice of an allegation of infringement from a trade mark owner, the receiving party is often put in the unenviable position of having to make a unilateral determination to either cease the activity at issue or continue with conduct that potentially violates a third party's rights while it waits to see if formal legal action is initiated.

It is not uncommon for a plaintiff who has commenced a patent litigation under the Hatch-Waxman Act to eventually move for a preliminary injunction to prevent a defendant from launching its generic drug product during the course of the litigation.

On April 30 2010, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published its 2010 Special 301 Report examining the application and effectiveness of intellectual property rights enforcement (IPR) by countries around the world. The USTR bases its opinion on submissions received from different groups, including lobbies such as the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America and the International Intellectual Property Alliance, as well as non-governmental organisations (NGOs) like Doctors without Borders.

With the vast advancement in information and computer technology, using information contained in web pages as evidence in patent invalidation proceedings is quite common nowadays. However, since information on the internet changes more frequently than information in conventional media, it is relatively difficult to preserve web page information or to use such information as legal evidence. Hence, archived web pages that are retrievable using the Wayback Machine, a service provided by the Internet Archive, a non-profit organisation, have become an important source of prior art data in patent invalidation proceedings.

Under the Singapore Patents Act, one prosecution option that an applicant may select is to request examination based on a prescribed foreign search report, including the International Search Report (ISR) in the case of a national phase application (PCT).