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Singapore has been confirmed as the new location for Icann’s June meeting.

David Moore has been appointed special counsel and head of the IP team at full-service Australian law firm Cornwall Stodart.

A comprehensive guide to filing, protecting and enforcing your patent in Israel. By Michael Factor of JMB Factor & Co

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last month ruled in favour of Levi Strauss in a decision that sheds light on the 2006 Trademark Dilution Revision Act (TDRA).

A motion to review the "current state" of the UDRP has been passed by the Generic Names Support Organisation Council of Icann, which is the organisation's policy making body. An issues report will examine "how the UDRP has addressed the problem of cybersquatting to date, and any insufficiencies/inequalities associated with the process". And "whether the definition of cybersquatting inherent within the existing UDRP language needs to be reviewed or updated". Once this is completed, the Council will vote on whether to start a policy development process, which could later effect change in the UDRP. "I don't think it is well timed with everything else going on with new gTLDs as the UDRP is the one solid mechanism currently in place," said David Taylor of Hogan Lovells (right), though he said a review might strengthen it for brand owners.

South Korea is set to reinforce border measures and data protection as part of a free trade agreement with the EU, which was approved by the European Parliament last week

Daryl Grecich, director of marketing and programs strategy for the International Trademark Association, died of heart failure on February 2 aged 44. In nine years at INTA, Daryl worked to increase sponsorship, partnerships and participation in the Association's activities. He worked particularly closely with Managing IP in developing the INTA Daily News (launched in 2003) and other publishing projects. Donations in memory of Daryl can be made to the Alzheimer's Association, a charity which he supported in honour of his father. Contact details are at www.alz.org and www.alzfdn.org.

The rapid growth of the internet in Indonesia has allowed the emergence of new conflicts that could trigger a breach of domain name and trade mark rights. For example, if a party registers a domain name using the mark of another party of which the registrant is not the trade mark holder, this action constitutes a trade mark infringement. In Indonesia the domain name registration is generally done without prior examination process. The examination performed by the governing body of domain names is merely based on the domain name registered previously.

The Madras High Court, in January this year, admitted a special petition under the Constitution of India (a writ petition) challenging the constitutional validity of the provisions establishing the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB). The IPAB, constituted to take over erstwhile functions of the High Courts in India, is the only statutory appellate body for certain decisions of the Intellectual Property Offices in India.

Judge Colin Birss of the Patents County Court (PCC) in London has handed down a judgment, which prevented the now wound-up law firm ACS:Law and company MediaCAT from discontinuing proceedings against 27 defendants they accused of downloading copyrighted pornographic films. Birss was unhappy with how the two had proceeded up to this point, including the fact that MediaCAT did not represent the owners of the infringed material, and wrote: "The advantage of discontinuing as opposed to applying to amend is unwarranted in that it avoids judicial scrutiny of the underlying basis for wider campaign orchestrated by MediaCAT and ACS:Law to generate revenue..." The claimant MediaCAT was a company with a contract with Sheptonhurst, perhaps among others, which owns copyright in the films. Both MediaCAT and Sheptonhurst entered into agreement that would see ACS:Law take 65% of revenue generated from the letter-writing campaign.