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The head of Ethiopia's IP Office explains why developing countries should embrace IP rights

The Patents Act 1983 provides for the grant of two types of proprietary rights for inventions. They are patents and Certificates for Utility Innovation (CUI). The legal requirements for patentability are as per universal requirements - novelty, an inventive step and industrial applicability subject to statutorily excluded matter. On the other hand, CUIs demand much lower standards.

Emma Barraclough, Hong Kong

Helped along by the attention given to internationally popular events such as the World Cup and the Olympics, naming rights for sports stadiums has become a lucrative business, with increasing challenges for intellectual property lawyers. Robin Lightner Maisashvili and Nina Smith explain why

Claiming the date of commencement of use of trade marks in Mexico raises some tricky issues. Jaime Delgado and Arturo D Reyes of Goodrich Riquelme & Asociados explain

Attorney-client privilege is an increasingly contentious issue worldwide. Jochen Bühling and Michael Jewess introduce a series of jurisdiction-based Q&A articles

The 2nd Global Forum on Intellectual Property, January 8 and 9 2009, Singapore

Many brand owners risk counterfeiting in Russia. While the authorities can help prosecute infringers, explain Daria Ermolina and Nikita Rodionov, obtaining damages is down to you

Pursuant to Article 67.1.3 of the Patent Act, an interested party may begin invalidation proceedings against an invention patent if the patent owner is not entitled to the invention.

In Romania, during the communist regime, all inventions considered of interest for the economy had to be assigned by their inventors to the state, through its institutions (such as ministries) or companies which were all entirely owned by the state. However, all inventions considered of interest that were not assigned by their inventors in favor of the state, were expropriated for the benefit of the latter. As a consequence of the legal or voluntary assignment, an author/inventor certificate was granted to the inventors who were also entitled to a consideration based on the advantages brought by the effective application of the inventions. In practice, in many cases, even if the law provided this consideration, it was not paid to the inventors.