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Víctor Garrido of Dumont Bergman Bider & Co discusses the convergence and divergence between Bilski and the Mexican patent system

Three major changes to Mexico’s IP system bode well for innovation and international investment. Eileen McDermott reports

The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is intended to provide trade mark owners with a relatively quick and inexpensive way to resolve a dispute regarding a third party's registration and use of a domain name that is identical or confusingly similar to a trade mark in which the owner has rights. The UDRP provides a single mechanism for resolving the domain dispute and offers the potential for compelling the transfer of the domain name at issue to the trade mark owner. Since the UDRP is intentionally designed to be an expedited process without the costs associated with litigation, trade mark owners are often eager to use the UDRP as a means to get a domain name registration out of the hands of a perceived cyber-squatter.

This year has seen a number of important steps for IP rights in Vietnam, beginning with amendments to the Law on Intellectual Property, which became effective on January 1 2010, and ending with substantial developments in IP enforcement. Two of the most notable developments were the first-ever court ruling on patent infringement in Vietnam and the issuance of a new decree that revises and clarifies the sanctions for IP violations.

In March this year we reported that a draft patent law was before the Cabinet and had been made available to the public on the Patent Office website. Since then further work has been done on the draft and it has moved closer to a document that may meet Syria's various international obligations and agreements, both present and future.

Recently, the Malaysian High Court adjudicated on the issue of ownership of a mark in cases where an entity (such as a local distributor or dealer), in a commercial relationship with the trade mark owner, attempts to register the mark in its own name. The case was especially significant for foreign companies that are on the verge of entering the market but are yet to register their trade marks in Malaysia.

Alan Adcock and Clemence Gautier of Tilleke & Gibbins consider the implications of freer Asean trade

Sergio Silva of Silva and Associates discusses the reasons for offshoring pharmaceutical patent translation tasks to Mexico

Rosalía Bautista of Becerril Coca & Becerril SC discusses the new requirement for including biological and physical data when filing patent applications

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 diary@managingip.com