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Manchester United Football Club has an estimated 53 million fans throughout the world. Try getting all of them through the turnstiles. Instead, the club is using other ways of reaching them. Merchandising, as Tom Howgate, the club's head of licensing, tells Ralph Cunningham, is one way of doing it

The status of well-known marks shows that Vietnam has an englightened system of protection for trade marks. However, brand owners must first apply to receive recognition, warns Pham Vu Khanh Toan of Pham & Associates

Although IP owners still suffer high levels of infringement in China, Xuemin Chen and Xiaoguang Yang of Zhongzi Law Office believe that 2005 saw a new level of commitment on the part of the government to boost innovation and protect IP

As patents become a cornerstone of world business, systems are under strain and attorneys are facing unprecedented challenges. How will the world cope? James Nurton and Tabitha Parker report

When considering taking action for patent infringement in Mexico it is wise to consider traditional avenues as well as recent litigation trends, explains Alejandro Luna of Olivares & Cia in Mexico City

On May 10 2000, there entered into force a new Act No 116/2000, amending some IP laws, including the Patents Act No 527/1990. The only exception concerns Section 3 of the Patents Act, regulating European patent applications and the European patent. This Section will enter into force on July 1 2002, ie on the day of the supposed accession of the Czech Republic to the EPC. The most important part of the said amendments concerns the grant of supplementary protection certificates for medicinal products and plant protection products. Commercial exploitation of inventions protecting such products is shortened by the registration proceeding carried out by the respective state authorities before such products can be put on the market. In justified cases, supplemental protection certificates extend the life of protection by the time of registration proceeding. Reasons for the introduction of supplementary protection certificates are just the same as those which led the European Union to adopt Regulations of the Council No 1768/92 and 1610/96 ie to keep up the level of research, and to safeguard a competition ability and free circulation of medicinal products and plant protection products.

Cristina Popa, Sonia Larion and Lucian Enescu of Rominvent in Bucharest examine the Regulations for producing, testing and marketing genetically modified organisms, and the resulting products, in Romania

Linda Wang and Ooi Aik Hin, of Tay & Partners, explain how to deal with overruns and transhipments under the following situations

On May 22 this year, the US Supreme Court decided the most eagerly-awaited patent case in many years, Festo v SMC. The case addresses a key issue for patent holders: what protection is available under the doctrine of equivalents. But was the decision as important as many people have claimed? What effect will it have for patent applicants and litigants in the US? And what impact will it have on the US Patent and Trademark Office, the Federal Circuit and district courts? MIP invited six senior IP practitioners in the US to a round table discussion, held at the Washington DC offices of Finnegan Henderson, to discuss the implications of the Festo decision, as well as other recent patent cases. James Nurton moderated the discussion

The introduction of a new Community design right is a landmark for protecting IP in Europe. Martin Schlötelburg explains what advantages the new right offers to industry