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Two former EPO Boards of Appeal chairs are among 21 new technically qualified judges

Brent Babcock and Jeff Johnson urge you to discover the potential benefits of conducting business database discovery

Ranjan Narula and Shakti Priyan Nair of RNA, Technology and IP Attorneys examine how Indian law and recent court rulings have shaped comparative advertising and trademark disparagement in an increasingly competitive marketplace

The practice of advertising one's own products by knocking a competitor's products or services is becoming increasingly common among companies in Europe. But are the legislators keeping up with the pace? Jeremy Dickerson looks at how the law is changing to deal with the issues

UK firms who have hired litigation and transactional lawyers reveal how they work together and the lessons have they learned

“Everything collapsed onto the roof of the vehicle; there were five to 10 rocks in front of me, and I couldn’t see a thing,” said Juan Illanes of his experience the day the San Jose copper-gold mine collapsed around him in Copiapó Chile

The Singapore Court of Appeal recently overruled a High Court decision upholding the registration of the trade mark NIKE, which had been registered by a Spanish company, Campomar.

On May 10 2000, there entered into force a new Act No 116/2000, amending some IP laws, including the Patents Act No 527/1990. The only exception concerns Section 3 of the Patents Act, regulating European patent applications and the European patent. This Section will enter into force on July 1 2002, ie on the day of the supposed accession of the Czech Republic to the EPC. The most important part of the said amendments concerns the grant of supplementary protection certificates for medicinal products and plant protection products. Commercial exploitation of inventions protecting such products is shortened by the registration proceeding carried out by the respective state authorities before such products can be put on the market. In justified cases, supplemental protection certificates extend the life of protection by the time of registration proceeding. Reasons for the introduction of supplementary protection certificates are just the same as those which led the European Union to adopt Regulations of the Council No 1768/92 and 1610/96 ie to keep up the level of research, and to safeguard a competition ability and free circulation of medicinal products and plant protection products.

We provide a rundown of Managing IP’s news and analysis coverage from the week, and review what’s been happening elsewhere in IP

Google’s recent report on government requests for content removal shows that Brazil has made the most tracked claims that concern copyright infringement