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Infringers of IP rights in India no longer have it all their own way. More and more civil and criminal remedies are available to rights owners now and they are using them, says Nikhil Krishnamurty

Keshav S Dhakad and Priyanka Kher of Anand & Anand describe India's efforts to protect software copyright in its booming IT industry

India's courts are taking a tougher approach to IP infringement, closing loopholes and imposing punitive damages. By Hemant Singh of Inttl Advocare

Manisha Singh-Nair of Lex Orbis considers how the recent changes to India's patent law - and the proposals contained in the eagerly-awaited Mashelkar Committee report - will affect rules on patentability

India's judges have a reputation for independence and fairness. But funding problems are having an impact on the effectiveness of Indian courts when dealing with cases of IP infringement, say Manish Saurastri and R Muralidharan of Krishna & Saurastri

In October 2006 President Bush signed a landmark US law that IP owners hoped would give famous trade marks greater protection. Six months on, Emma Barraclough assesses whether the new law has lived up to expectations

Emma Barraclough, London

Emma Barraclough, London

About one year ago Russian Customs drastically intensified its efforts in intercepting the illegal transit of goods across the border. Spurred by the World Customs Organization, the Russian Customs will make the year 2007 the year of combating counterfeiting. There are many reasons for that. The Russian Customs acknowledge that intellectual property rights infringement is the most frequent occurrence among economic offences. According to the Customs, the most frequently stopped goods at the border are confectionery, sports clothes and shoes, perfumes and household chemistry. This means that trade mark infringement is the biggest problem. Competing with trade marks are copyrighted products, such as DVDs and Cds. Piracy of videocassettes is becoming less frequent due to the dwindling demand for video tape gadgetry.

In the case of SAP (M) Sdn Bhd & Anor v I World HRM Net Sdn Bhd [2006] 2 MLJ 678 an application for an interlocutory injunction was made by SAP, the German software company, and its local exclusive distributor after they had sued the defendants for copyright infringement. The defendants had an individual end user licence agreement for the SAP R/3 software. The plaintiffs had alleged that the defendants had breached the licence agreement by providing service bureau applications to third parties without the plaintiffs' consent and by reproducing and downloading the software on computers/servers of third parties.