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WTO membership means being subject to the Organization’s dispute resolution mechanism. While the system has proved effective in resolving IP disputes, do not expect it to have a dramatic effect on enforcement in China, says Douglas Clark

Wilbert Derks of Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White in London explains why the Netherlands is worth considering when acquiring and defending IP rights in Europe

Many European patent attorneys are facing the biggest changes of their careers as the Community Patent and Community IP Court loom on the horizon. While some will flourish, others will not survive, says James Nurton

For three centuries, Amsterdam has been a centre of global trade and artistic creativity. As the INTA prepares to hold its annual conference in Europe for the first time, Ingrid Hering visited the Netherlands to investigate the Dutch approach to branding

On February 28 2003 the Singapore government introduced a number of fiscal incentives in the 2003 budget to make Singapore an even more attractive location for IP rights holders.

PCT applications Most popular categories for PCT applications Swiss watchmaker Swatch was the most prolific user of design protection in 2002, according to WIPO.

In the fourth part of the World IP Survey, we reveal the leading patent firms in 26 jurisdictions, and find out about the latest trends in practice.

In the April 1998 issue of MIP we presented comments about the development of IP rights for the first five years of the existence of the Czech Industrial Property Office. 1998 figures show a continuity in all fields of IP rights. The number of new patent applications is still increasing, utility models and designs are more or less steady and trade mark applications are slowly decreasing. What is quite important from the internal point of view is the fact that for the first time not only since 1993, but since 1990, the number of domestic applicants went up slightly. Figures showing the number of trade mark registrations prove that the backlog from previous years has already been overcome. When comparing the number of filings with the number of registrations, it can be clearly seen that registrations more or less correspond to filings as we must bear in mind that some applications do not mature into registrations due to objections both from the part of the Office and from third parties.

In an effort to encourage low-level inventions, Australia has introduced an “innovation patent” with a lower inventive threshold than standard patents. Anthony Selleck analyzes the the new tool

James Nurton, London