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The European Commission today formally adopted the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and sent it to the Council and European Parliament for approval.

UK lawyers have welcomed the elevation of judges Lewison and Kitchin to the Court of Appeal

Nortel’s sale of 6,000 patents for $4.5 billion to a group of buyers including Apple, RIM, Microsoft, Sony and Ericsson has put Google last place in the patent race

Nortel’s patent portfolio sold for $4.5 billion to a group of buyers including Apple, RIM, Microsoft, Sony and Ericsson in an auction that started Monday.

Puerto 80, the Spanish company that owned two sports-related domain names seized by a US agency, has filed a petition for their release in a New York court

WIPO has rejected calls for the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) to be reviewed and urged Icann to focus on the urgent issue of cybersquatting

Brand owners have described last week’s Court of Justice ruling in L’Oréal v eBay as “a major step forward” and “about time”

Argentine Law No 24,766 (the Confidentiality Act) regulating the protection of test data does not offer effective data protection, making it inconsistent with the TRIPs agreement.

An item in the Mail & Guardian newspaper recently reported that a troop of baboons had discovered a new citrus variety in the Western Cape, South Africa. Alwyn van der Merwe, production director of ALG Estates near Citrusdal – 200km north of Cape Town – said that year after year the farm has been struck by a troop of baboons, which descended from the mountain. The troop always selected one tree among thousands in one of their orchards and devoured all the fruit before the season really got going. At closer inspection they discovered that the brix [sweetness grade] of this particular minneola, a soft citrus variety, was much higher than the rest of the orchard and that it started bearing fruit at least three weeks earlier than expected. Apparently, ALG Estates has set about developing this new variety.

The new Australian Designs Act of 2004 was introduced partially to overcome the syndrome of every design being valid, but no design being infringed by a copier who had made small differences. However, a recent decision under the new Act highlights the difficulty in suing the wily copier who makes changes to the design.