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Horacio Gutierrez has left his role as head of the innovation and intellectual property group at Microsoft, in order to lead the products and services group in the legal and corporate affairs department. Gutierrez, who was in his previous role for eight years, retains the titles of corporate vice-president and deputy general counsel.

IPO Director of Innovation & Strategic Comms with background in private sector and Whitehall roles.

Policy makers around the world are tackling some big IP-related issues. These include the relationship between IP laws and economic growth; ways of responding to counterfeiting and piracy; and the correct balance between ensuring access to innovation and incentivising the production of more of it.

Judge Chen Jinchuan It's hard to deny the influence of social media and campaigners harnessing the web to bring new voices to the debate. At the same time, this past year has seen considerable activity in the IP offices, legislatures and courts. Even at a time where the law is often derided for not moving quickly enough to keep up with developments in business and technology, the influence of those working in the traditional halls of power for intellectual property is hard to overstate. There has been a considerable amount of legislative change in the past year. Lord Younger, UK IP Minister, has had a number of notable achievements under his belt, such as the passage of the UK IP Act 2014. The new law, which received Royal Assent in May, makes a number of minor changes to streamline processes, but also notably introduces criminal sanctions for design patent infringement. Furthermore, the IP Act takes a number of steps towards preparing the UK for the Unitary Patent.

Contents Meet IP’s most influential people

Debate around intellectual property's role in society is as old as society itself. Here, Managing IP identifies influential business and entertainment figures that are shaping the current arguments, and changing the business model for monetising IP. Some are IP practitioners at businesses who go beyond their day job to influence the debate; some are disrupters forcing a change in how patents are monetised and enforced; while others are complete outsiders who find themselves embroiled in disputes that shape IP law.

In a recent interview with Managing IP, former SIPO commissioner Tian Lipu said that IP disputes should be treated as a matter between private parties rather than a political argument. But is this even possible?

On May 13, 2014 the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice delivered a landmark decision concerning the responsibilities of Google, a popular search engine, under the EU Data Protection directive.

On May 29 2014, the DNS.PT Association, which is responsible for the management, registration and maintenance of domains under the top-level domain (TLD) .pt, published changes to the rules for the registration of domain names in the .pt domain. The changes came into force on June 16 2014.

In a recent decision, the Federal Administrative Court confirmed the rejection by the Swiss Trade Mark Office of an application for the mark Venus for printed matter in international class 16.