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Patent applications for business methods have dramatically increased in recent years. But, say Robert Cooper and Frances Sun, applying to patent business methods in Australia has been risky as there was a dearth of case law – until now

Nearly a decade after the first release of shocking advertising images by Benetton, the German Federal Constitutional Court has now found the ads acceptable. Henning Hartwig examines the landmark decision, which has finally put an extensive discussion to rest

You may not put the European Patent Office top of the list when applying for e-commerce patents. Think again. Johannes Lang reveals that protection is just as powerful as in the US, and in some cases even broader

Trade mark practitioners report record workloads, greater demands from clients and increased competition. James Nurton and Tabitha Parker investigate the latest trends in the second part of MIP’s fifth annual survey of the world’s leading IP firms

Chen Xuemin, of CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office in Beijing, discusses the best ways to stop trade mark counterfeiters in China

Ten years of enforcement in China Tim Browning and Carol Wang of Rouse & Co look back over the last 10 years of IP in China and offer a perspective on how enforcement has developed

One of the most fundamental biotechnology inventions is due to be tested in a Massachusetts district court, after Applied Molecular Evolution (AME) filed a patent infringement suit against Morphosys on June 26. AME owns a licence to six patents filed by Stuart Kauffman covering directed evolution technology. The patents have been described by Nature Biotechnology magazine as being as important as those filed by Cohen and Boyer in the first generation of biotechnology.

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The increasing intricacy and complexity of today's technologies is pushing more and more companies to think about joining standards bodies. However, says Sam Mamudi, there are risks inherent to such organizations

Over recent years in the Middle East, we have seen a massive increase in the use of mobile phone technology and included within that has been the arrival of several operators offering ringtones. So far in the Middle East, most of what has been on offer are polytones and monotones. Truetones are only just now beginning to break into the market place. Polytones and monotones are reproductions of a recording involving a publishing royalty whereas a truetone uses the actual recording of a song. It is becoming pretty popular in the Middle East for a mobile user to download his or her favourite sound recording into a mobile phone to be used for example as an incoming call alert.