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  • Rights owners will be happy to hear that the Dubai Customs Authority has recently announced its plans to set up a dedicated Intellectual Property Unit (IPU) to help curb the import, export and transshipment of counterfeit goods and products through all ports, including the Jebel Ali Free Zone Port. This is the first unit of its kind in the region and promises a brighter future for international brand owners.
  • Rule 126 of the Philippine Rules of Court says that a search warrant cannot be issued except upon probable cause. In the case of Sony Music Entertainment (Phils), et al v Hon. Judge Dolores Español et al (G.R. No 156804, March 14 2005), Sony learned this rule the hard way.
  • As reported in the April issue of MIP, the implementation of the so-called biotech directive (EU directive 98/44/EC) into the German Patent Act (GPA) has become effective. This implementation, however, does not only affect material patent law with respect to biotechnological inventions, but also led to a change of §24 GPA regulating the requirements of compulsory licences.
  • Graphic health warnings have hit the tobacco industry and are threatening to jump to other consumer goods sectors as well. Toe Su Aung warns that the regulators' increased use of shock therapy labelling could seriously impinge on the value of brands and IP rights
  • MIP's latest survey of the largest IP practices in Asia, Europe and the US shows how a growing trend towards consolidation is re-shaping IP practices in many parts of the world
  • Two recent cases in the still blurred area of market dominance have left pharmaceutical companies holding their breath. Sophie Lawrance and Pat Treacy examine the cases and whether the way in which competition law is enforced is becoming an obstacle to the pharmaceutical industry's success
  • In an important pro-patentee decision handed down in June, Japan's Supreme Court affirmed a patent holder's right to seek an injunction against an infringer, even if the patentee has granted an exclusive licence over the invention. John Tessensohn and Shusaku Yamamoto explain what the ruling means in practice
  • South Korea officially signed a free trade agreement (FTA) on August 4 2005 with Singapore, South Korea's largest south-east Asian trading partner.
  • Singapore residents must file their patent application in Singapore first or obtain permission from the Registrar of Patents if they want to file a foreign patent application first. This provision, outlined in section 34 of the Singapore Patents Act 1994, does not apply to patent applications first filed outside Singapore by a person resident outside Singapore.