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In 2008, the Federal Court for Tax and Administrative Affairs (FCTAA) created a Specialized IP Court to decide all the cases related to IP rights, which started work in January 2009.

Managing IP's 2011 patent survey is the first part of the most comprehensive annual study of the IP legal market. This section includes rankings of the leading firms in important emerging markets

Since the early 1990s many discussions have focused on the possibility of a national judge issuing injunctions for infringement in another country: cross-border injunctions. This practice, starting in The Netherlands, was effectively halted with the decisions GAT v LUK (C-4/03) and Primus v Roche (C-539/03) at the Court of Justice of the EU. However, in cases where validity of the patent is not the issue, the CJ recognised that cross-border injunctions were still possible (Duijnstee v Goderbauer (C-288/82)).

The Icann Board passed a resolution to pass the proposed final Applicant Guidebook “as close as practically possible” to its current form on January 25.

Just released: the patent results from Managing IP's biggest ever survey of the world's leading law firms, covering more than 75 markets, with over 150 separate tables and based on more than five months of research worldwide

The Icann Board has approved .tel registry Telnic’s request to allow number registrations in the second-level.

At its January 25 meeting, the Icann Board approved 11 more internationalised domain names.

The standard applied by the Norwegian Patent Office has until recently been based on a requirement for "a reasonable technical difference" from a prior art document. This has been considered a stricter standard for novelty than at the EPO. The practice as regards the assessment of novelty in Norway has, however, followed the German Supreme Court.

Apple's attempt to register the term App Store comes as the USPTO is conducting a study on whether US trade mark litigation tactics are anti-competitive

Top patent firms in Asia ranked for prosecution and contentious work. Includes tables for overseas firms in key jurisdictions.