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Mexico's Supreme Court has tried to clarify recent amendments to the law on copyright remuneration. But, argues Luis C Schmidt of Olivares & Cia in Mexico City, many questions still remain

In the wake of the Law on Advertising, which came into force on July 1 2006, the State Duma adopted some changes to the Criminal Procedure Code. The Criminal Code already contains provisions for the punishment of IP infringers and in past years those sanctions have been made harder. Now the new procedure makes it easier for law enforcement bodies to deal with infringement cases in the field of copyright. At present, only public prosecutors are empowered to initiate criminal cases against infringers according to Section 146 of the Criminal Code. The new provision of the Criminal Procedure Code empowers the police to prosecute wrongdoers in copyright matters. A criminal case according to Section 146 may be initiated if the damage to the copyright owner is more than R50,000 ($2,000). A crime of this calibre shall be punished by imprisonment of up to five years.

MIP presents its fourth annual list of the most influential people in IP. Join us as we meet the 2006 top 50

Stéphanie Bodoni, London

The first part of the eighth annual World IP Survey unveils the top-ranked firms in 27 jurisdictions in Europe, Asia and North America. Below, we explain how the results were compiled

A number of recent cases confirm that disparities remain in how European and US courts tackle conflicts between competition and intellectual property laws. Companies need to be aware of the impact competition rules can have on the value of their IP, say Isabel Davies, Bruno Lebrun and Andreas Stargard of Howrey

With Vietnam's impending entry into the WTO, there have been many recent developments in intellectual property law, including:

It is a regular and strict practice of the Turkish Patent Institute to examine a trade mark application on both relative and absolute grounds within six to eight months of its filing date. Accordingly, the Institute rejects ex officio an application where the mark applied for is identical or very similar to a prior registration or application for identical or similar goods or services.

The patenting of biotechnology raises both ethical and practical concerns. Dirk Bühler and Martin Huenges of Maiwald analyse recent cases to consider how the EPO is handling the issues

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) recently approved the binding corporate rules (BCRs) of the Accenture and Atmel groups of companies, giving them freedom to transfer personal data from the UK to other entities within their own corporate groups which operate outside the EEA.