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Up until recently, in the UAE, an agency agreement had to be registered at the Commercial Agencies Register at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to be enforceable. This had created a lot of difficulties in the past for foreign companies in terminating agreements where the local agent was not performing under the agreement, as the commercial agency law provided substantial protection to the commercial agents, especially in the context of termination. For example, if the principal terminated an unlimited term commercial agency without cause, the principal was obliged to compensate the agent.

Act 29/2006, of July 26, on Guarantees for and Rational Use of Medicinal and Health Products, which supersedes and repeals the former Medicinal Products Act 1990, was published in the Official State Gazette on July 27 2006. The new Act amends Patents Act Article 52.1, which provides for the exceptions to patent rights, that is cases in which a patent is not effective. The wording is:

The ECJ dealt a deadly blow to cross-border patent litigation in two long-awaited decisions handed down in July. But in his review of the state of multinational patent litigation in Europe in the wake of the rulings, Reinhardt Schuster concludes that forum shopping may not be so bad for litigants

The Japanese courts recently vetoed a drug company's efforts to stop generic rivals from selling their products in lookalike packaging. John Tessensohn and Shusaku Yamamoto explain what the trade dress decision means for the pharmaceutical industry in one of the world's most lucrative drugs markets

The .mobi domain name promises IP owners an innovative new way of attracting would-be customers to their websites via their mobile phones. But does the explosion in domain names around the world mean that IP owners are too jaded to care? Shahnaz Mahmud discusses the issues with Pinkard ''Pinky'' Brand, .mobi's director of new markets

New rules on electronic discovery are set to come into force in the US in December, and will have a significant impact on document-intensive IP litigation. Adam Kessel provides a guide to the rules and explains why your electronic documents may reveal more information than you think

Meredith Martin Addy and C Noel Kaman of Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione review recently decided and pending patent cases at the US Supreme Court, and ask what they reveal about the Court's attitude toward the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

The amount of money sponsors pay to associate with the Olympic Games means that their IP interests must be protected. Sydney’s organizers had a number of legal measures against ambush marketing. Their Beijing counterparts need similar powers, argue Justin Davidson and Jessie McDonald

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

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