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Our company launched a new product last year but we have since discovered that a leading supermarket is selling an own brand version that looks very similar. What should we do?

Rahul Chaudhry and Sumit Wadhwa, of Lall Lahiri & Salhotra, compare litigation and administrative actions and discuss alternative avenues available

Pravin Anand and Dhruv Anand of Anand and Anand examine how IP has evolved in India over the past 30 years, focusing on legislation, the courts and other bodies, press coverage, teaching and training

A recent action brought under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), in which Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP (CPLP) prevailed, demonstrates best practices for approaching ACPA actions. The case, Newport News Holdings Corp v Virtual City Vision, Inc, et al (ED Va 2009), involved NNHC, a women's clothing company that owns trade mark registrations for NEWPORT NEWS. The defendants registered the domain name NEWPORTNEWS.COM and initially used it as a virtual city website, but later transformed the website into one offering women's clothing.

On July 8 2009, the Court in The Hague decided on the question whether a patent owner still has the right to enforce his patent as a temporary measure, if the patent was revoked in first instance. This in view of the fact that the revocation could be overruled in the appeal proceedings.

Formerly, the Ukrainian Trade Mark Law did not regulate an institute of submitting oppositions against pending trade mark applications under the national procedure. Rather, the Law contained quite a conservative provision stipulating that information in respect of pending national trade mark applications should be regarded as confidential, and the relationship should be bilateral, in other words between the applicant and the examiner, with no third persons formally allowed.

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

In a surprise arbitration decision, Nike has lost its complaint over five domain names registered by a Korean company.

IP concerns are increasingly likely to make or break cross-border M&A deals in China. In the second of a two-part series, Catherine Sun provides a step-by-step guide to getting it right

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