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An action to revoke its patent on the drug Videx EC threatens to limit further Bristol-Myers Squibb's (BMS) rights to sell Aids medicines in Thailand. Three Aids patients and the Foundation for Consumers, a local group, claim that the US pharmaceutical company did not invent the drug and so should not be allowed to own the rights to it in Thailand. According to the plaintiffs, the drug is a product of collaboration between BMS and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).

To a packed courtroom on Thursday April 19, 39 drug companies agreed to drop their lawsuit against the South African government.

The US is ready to take punitive action against Ukraine, if the eastern European country does not clamp down on copyright pirates immediately.

Dr Shirish Sherlekar and Dr Ankasha Tejam, AstraZeneca

The USPTO wants to make it mandatory to file trade mark applications electronically. Colleen Connors Butler of Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione reveals the advantages and disadvantages of doing so

Korea has done much to turn around its reputation as a counterfeit hotspot. Emma Barraclough looks at the latest initiative

On April 25, a new Act – 221/2006 Coll on Enforcement of Industrial Property Rights – entered into force. It is based on Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament.

David Highet is chief IP counsel for Becton Dickinson and a trustee of the American Intellectual Property Law Education Foundation. He spoke to MIP about patent trolls, changing approaches to patents and the need for diversity in the IP profession

Until recently, the federal legislation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) did not deal with the challenges that arose from the advent of the digital age. The only law that dealt with some of those issues was the Electronic Transactions and Commerce Law Number 2 of 2002 of the Emirate of Dubai, a law that applied only to the Emirate of Dubai. This year, two new laws, Federal Law Number 1 of 2006 regarding Electronic Transactions and Commerce, and Federal Law Number 2 of 2006 regarding Cyber Crime, were issued to deal respectively with e-commerce and cyber crime issues. These laws were issued to regulate and meet the challenges of contracts concluded online.

Peter Spours and Dan McCurdy explain why treating your patents like currency and researching competitors' portfolios can help you build a successful IP strategy