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Demystifying patent litigation is a highly effective way to improve client decision making. Wayne McMaster and John Swinson of Mallesons Stephen Jaques present a summary of the key issues prospective litigants need to consider in Australian patent litigation

James Nurton, London

A monthly column devoted to IP curiosities and controversies, named in honour of John of Utynam - who received the world's first recorded patent in 1449

One of India's biggest drugs companies is urging the government to change the rules on data exclusivity, saying the country needs to balance the interests of multinational pharmaceutical companies and India's home-grown drugs industry.

Under the interpretation of the rules put forth by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), the extensions of time as of right under Rule 108(3) are not available under the slow track option.

The GSM story is one of success for the market as well as investors in the technology and IP rights holders, and it will be for the market to resolve the forthcoming issues on 3G IP rights by tried and tested methods, argues Hugh Dunlop

DuPont is investing millions of dollars to set up its latest R&D centre in India. Emma Barraclough spoke to the company's chief IP counsel and the director of the Hyderabad-based DuPont Knowledge Center to find out how they plan to tackle the IP challenges ahead

The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has issued new guidance on the patentability of computer programs. This follows the Court of Appeal's rejection of the UKIPO's appeal in the recent Symbian case and confirmation that there will be no further appeal to the House of Lords. The key statement in the new guidance is that the Symbian case confirms "that the Aerotel/Macrossan test is intended to be in substance the same test as that relied on in the prior UK case law". Previously, the UKIPO had taken what was arguably a more restrictive approach to the application of the Aerotel test in that identification of a "technical contribution" was treated as only a check to confirm that a computer-implemented invention was patentable once it had passed the other stages of the assessment set out in the Aerotel case (see UKIPO Practice Notice dated November 2 2006).

Parallel imports have been a burning issue for Russian importers for the past year. At different times in the past, several laws were adopted (Trade Mark Law, Code of Administrative Offences, Customs Code) that completed the legislative structure dealing with parallel imports. And Russian Customs, pressed by the government for better enforcement at the border, became exceptionally active in identifying parallel goods. So, the beginning of last year saw an avalanche of inquiries from Customs asking trade mark owners for their opinion with regard to parallel import consignments.

The Mexican IP authorities have implemented new procedures for renewing trade mark applications that have been pending for ten years.