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Could the Napster saga finally be ending? On February 20, two weeks after losing a court battle to stay alive, the music-swapping company offered to pay $1 billion to settle the dispute once and for all.

Gabriel Cuonzo of Trevisan & Cuonzo examines how Italy's litigation landscape has changed after the death of the Italian torpedo and how legal changes could revamp the country's image on the European litigation scene

1. D. The new IP High Court replaced the IP division of the Tokyo High Court in April, and handed down its first ruling on September 30.

The difficulty of managing patent litigation is magnified with increasing numbers of alleged infringers and actions filed across the United States. Errol Taylor and Joshua Rothman describe the benefits that consolidating these actions can confer on corporations engaged in such complex litigation

Asia's courts are increasingly able to handle sophisticated IP cases and patent holders should no longer assume that civil litigation is not an option for solving IP disputes, says Nick Redfearn of the Rouse & Co International Group

Under the Korean Trademark Act, the registration of a trade mark can be cancelled if it is not used within three years of the date on which an interested party files a cancellation action based on non-use or if it is used in an improper manner by the trade mark owner or its licensee. Articles 73(1)(ii) (improper use by a registrant) and 73(1)(viii) (improper use by a licensee) can be a good weapon for famous mark owners to attack third parties that own a trade mark whose registered form may not be considered similar to the famous mark, but the form actually used is very similar.

The success of the high-tech sector in Israel has been driven by many factors, including the vast pool of talented scientists, engineers and researchers, a dynamic venture capital market, a genuine entrepreneurial spirit and advanced academic institutions and their increasingly fruitful collaboration with industry. In addition, the role of the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) of the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labour and its many programmes, and the effect of the Law for the Encouragement of Industrial Research and Development, 1984, as amended (the Law), the implementation of which the OCS oversees, have also played an important role.

Reserva is an exclusive patrimonial right to authorize the use of titles of publications or broadcasts, names of artists or artistic groups, characters of fictitious or human nature, or so-called publicity promotions. By virtue of reservas, right holders can authorize or prohibit third parties from copying or imitating titles, names, characters or promotions (collectively referred to as the "rights"). Secondly, right holders can authorize or prevent the distribution of copies or imitations of the rights used in any tangible form or their public performance by any media, such as broadcasting or digital networks. Thirdly, reserva rights entitle their holders to either authorize or prevent the rights from being modified or transformed. The exclusive right to authorize or prevent can be assigned or licensed.

On August 29, the Spanish government passed Royal Decree 1431/2008 modifying certain implementing regulations in IP matters. This Royal Decree introduces no amendments on substantive law but clarifies and improves the procedure for the registration and granting of IP rights.

Traditionally, patent infringement litigation in Taiwan has been problematic. Yulan Kuo and Charles Chen of Formosa Transnational explain why this is no longer going to be the case