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There have been a number of interesting cases in India in the past year. Pravin Anand and Saikrishna Rajagopal, of Anand and Anand in New Delhi, examine some of the most important

The Belgian torpedo has become a popular riposte to Dutch cross-border injunctions. But Remco de Ranitz and Marc van Wijngaarden, of Arnold & Siedsma in The Hague, reveal two recent developments which may blunt its impact

With the number and scale of disputes over trade secrets increasing rapidly in the US, David Warden, Walter Bratic and Carmen Eggleston examine whether you can apply the same standards used in assessing patent damages to trade secrets cases

Michael Lantos, of Danubia Patent & Trademark Attorneys in Budapest, examines the role of expert witnesses and expert testimony in Hungarian patent litigation

The 30 countries profiled in MIP’s Emerging Markets Survey will be among the big markets of tomorrow. Which makes it vital to know where to find the top firms. On the following pages, we reveal the results of our fourth annual survey, and analyze the latest trends

The BSA is declaring a 30-day truce on UK companies using illegal software, from March 6 2000. The campaign is offering free use of an auditing tool which will check for unlicensed software on company systems.

The new Trade Mark Law which came into force on July 23 1998 includes the provision to introduce oppositions within three months from the date of a trade mark´ s publication in the Official Bulletin.

The European Patent Office has admitted that a patent for altering cells and human embryos was granted to Edinburgh University “by mistake”.

To strengthen IP rights enforcement in Singapore, new border enforcement measures were introduced in the Copyright Act and the recent Trade Marks Act 1998 to prevent infringing goods from entering Singapore. The border enforcement measures under the Trade Marks Act 1998 in particular took effect on January 15 1999 and enable a trade mark owner suspicious of any incoming shipment of infringing goods to enlist the assistance of the Customs and Excise Department. Subject to certain safeguards, the Department may seize these goods when they enter Singapore.

The German Federal Supreme Court recently issued two decisions on the registrability of slogans (Radio von hier, Radio wie wir and Partner with the Best, both dated December 8 1999), which have terminated an ongoing controversy in Germany. According to these decisions, the requirements for distinctiveness of slogans are not any greater than for regular word marks.