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Austria PATENT PROSECUTION Tier 1 Sonn & Partner Tier 2 Beer & Partner Kopecky & Schwarz Tier 3 Patentanwalt Dr Thomas M Haffner Patentanwälte Puchberger, Berger & Partner Patentanwälte Schütz und Partner Torggler & Hofinger Tier 4 Barger, Piso & Partner Patentanwaltskanzlei Wildhack & Jellinek

Proposed amendments to China's patent and trade mark laws have caused much debate over the past month. Peter Ollier analyzes what is at stake

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.

The approach of 2005 and TRIPs Agreement conformity has proved to be a great motivator in Asian jurisdictions. A flood of new patent legislation has entered the statute books. Some countries already comply with the agreement. Others have a bit more work to do, reports Ralph Cunningham

The approach of 2005 and TRIPs Agreement conformity has proved to be a great motivator in Asian jurisdictions. A flood of new patent legislation has entered the statute books. Some countries already comply with the agreement. Others have a bit more work to do, reports Ralph Cunningham

The past year has seen a flurry of judicial activity across Asia as countries try to boost their IP courts. Emma Barraclough considers the latest developments, and how they will benefit IP owners

More and more people are incorporating companies in Hong Kong whose names include trade marks that do not belong to them. These so-called shadow companies can confuse customers and the authorities into thinking they are related to the genuine brand owner. Adelaide Yu provides strategies for dealing with the problem

Two years on from Sony v PAG, a Russian court decision regarding parallel imports, Nikolay Leshkin and Stuart Adams of IP firm Rouse assess the impact

Rachna Bakhru and Suvarna Pandey of RNA consider the recent trends in life sciences patent opposition, and offer advice on how to achieve sufficient disclosure in patent applications along with addressing the patentability issues for diagnostic kits

Results of appeals in domain name disputes should give trade mark owners a lot of hope. China’s judges are now prepared to declare what is well-known and what is not, explains Jin Ling