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Open innovation could be the future of innovation in many industries, including pharmaceuticals. Paul England and Angus McLean walk you through the IP minefield that results

Douglas N Masters and Nerissa Coyle McGinn explain how to maximise the benefits of product placement through the increasingly complex technique of branded integration

The answer depends on how your customers will be using the internet in five years. And whether you can cope with the registration process, says Nick Wood

Would encouraging consumers to report counterfeiting help solve the problem or be a bad PR move?

Jae Hyuk Choi explains why, despite impressive government initiatives, more private sector involvement is needed to boost South Korea’s nascent technology transfer market

In line with its policy to strengthen its IP regime and encourage entrepreneurs to register their IP rights, Malaysia has introduced an expedited examination of trade mark applications, with effect from February 15 2011.

Italy has always led the field in creating new designs, especially in fashion, interior design and the like. This is why protecting designs, which can often also be covered by copyright, is of special interest to Italian industry.

Patent holding company Intellectual Ventures is suing 12 companies, including Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Hynix Semiconductor, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, for infringing five of its patents

The provisions concerning industrial design as stipulated in Law no 31 (2000) state that industrial design shall be granted for an industrial design that is novel. An industrial design is considered novel if it is not the same as any previous disclosure before its date of receipt. Novelty of an industrial design product is not solely judged on the product itself, but the creation of its form – its aesthetic value – as well.

Recently, the Competition Commission of India (CCI), in FICCI-Multiplex Association of India v United Producers/Distributors Forum & Ors, disposed of the first-ever case filed before it and imposed a nominal penalty of Rs100,000 ($2,200) each on 27 cinematograph film producers for colluding to exploit multiplex owners. The complaint was filed by the Multiplex Association of India (the informant) alleging that the producers had engaged in cartel-like conduct during the course of, and subsequent to, a revenue sharing dispute between them.