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Andrea Lensing-Kramer and Peter Ruess discuss the peculiarities of an efficient yet often unknown tool for protecting intellectual property rights in Germany

James Nurton, London

According to Turkish Patent Decree Law, a patentee is obliged to put to use/work the invention under patent protection and file a certified document to the Turkish Patent Institute within three years from the date when the patent was granted. Otherwise any interested person may request that a compulsory licence be granted.

In a reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof of Germany, the European Court of Justice has been asked to determine the concept of "combination of active ingredients" in Article 1(b) of Regulation No 1768/92 on supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) for medicinal products (Case C-431/04 – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Opinion of Advocate General Léger on November 24 2005).

The entire revocation of a European patent is very rare, and can take up to seven years. Jürgen Kaiser looks at the advantages of another option - filing observations while the patent is still in the examination phase

As president of the German Federal Patent Court, Dr Hans-Georg Landfermann oversees decisions affecting the validity of all patents registered in Germany. Ben Moshinsky spoke to him about the role of the court and the future of European litigation

The Russian legislators, when drafting the Patent Law, always sought to make the law as inventor-friendly as possible and to provide the widest possible scope of subject matter that could be protected. Much has been taken from the experience of other countries. Perhaps they went too far.

A monthly column devoted to IP curiosities and controversies, named in honour of John of Utynam - who received the world's first recorded patent in 1449

Recent decisions in the UK and Australia have shown diverging views of what novelty requires. Justin Watts and Peter Chalk ask whether some of the tests applied by the courts to check whether prior art is novelty-destroying are going a step too far

IP management software systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Web-enabled technology means that systems can be easily deployed across a business and more specifically, because the software is more flexible, the IP department is able to utilize it for more complex business strategy and financial accounting purposes. These developments are invaluable when many IP departments are experiencing increased pressure to accurately track costs, manage and reduce their costs and generate accurate budgets and forecasts.