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Un Ho Kim and Young Sun Jung of Lee & Ko discuss recent Supreme Court decisions governing patentability of pharmaceutical inventions

In Singapore, under the Singapore Patents Act, Section 29 provides three prosecution options:

On January 1 2011 Swiss civil procedural law will finally be unified when the Federal Code of Civil Procedure replaces the 26 cantonal civil procedures. With the new act, as before, each canton has to designate a single first instance court for IP cases, which is competent for hearing cases relating to infringement, validity, ownership, transfers and licences of IP. For patent cases only, this cantonal competence will end for validity and infringement cases (and for actions directed to the grant of a licence) on January 1 2012, when the Swiss Federal Patent Court of first instance will start its work. The president and the other judges of this new court have been elected by Parliament and work for establishing the court's infrastructure is under way.

Seong-Ki Kim and Kee-Hyo Kim of Lee International IP & Law Group consider possible updates to judicial procedure

Patent litigation in Malaysia is rare and not popular amongst Malaysian companies, the more so when the dispute involves both patent and passing-off. The case of SKB Shutters Manufacturing v Seng Kong Shutter Industries and Anor, which was decided by the Kuala Lumpur High Court on October 4 2010, is one such exception.

Music Broadcast Pvt v Phonographic Performance. Indian Copyright Board and others

Choosing trade secret protection over other types of IP rights can have its advantages – but only if some crucial steps are taken. Randall E Kahnke and Kerry L Bundy explain

The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) et al v the USPTO and Myriad Genetics. US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Geetha Kandiah talks through the cases that Malaysia’s specialist IP courts have faced since they were established in 2007. The record, on speed and quality, is good and other countries have taken note

Putting in place powers of attorney to appoint IP agents has long been a headache for IP owners, especially when the powers need to be notarised and legalised. Changes this year to the procedures in Syria for powers of attorney appear to have added to the administrative burden and left many IP owners puzzled.