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Bart van Wezenbeek of Vereenigde considers the progression of patentability of chemical compounds leading to patent protection for naturally occurring substances

The market for foods for specific health uses in Japan is large and growing. Hiroshi Sorimachi of Kyowa Patent and Law Office explains how to obtain patent protection for functional foods

Originator pharmaceutical companies are facing growing pressures from generic rivals in Japan. But, as Makoto Ono of Anderson Mori & Tomotsune explains, they are gaining support from the JPO and the country’s courts

Richard Willoughby of Rouse considers whether patent protection remains important for orphan drugs

This year sees some new names presiding over European IP policy and practice. On July 1 France's Benoît Battistelli took over as president of the European Patent Office and, as Managing IP's Europe IP Focus was going to press, Portugal's Antonio Campinos was preparing to take over as head of the European trade mark office OHIM. You can read more about both men, and the challenges they face in their new roles, in the editorial introduction to the 2010 edition of the Europe IP Focus. This features those Europeans we included in our latest annual list of the 50 most influential people in IP. They are an eclectic bunch: In addition to Battistelli and Campinos we have judges, in-house lawyers, administrators, activists, academics and business leaders. Find out how they are influencing IP over the next seven pages.

Isabel Boardman of Soerensen Garcia Advogados advises IP owners to interact with the Customs office in their country in order to curb anti-counterfeiting

At the September IPO Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Chief Judge Randall Rader of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit told the story of his court’s creation. He sat down with Eileen McDermott there to talk about why that story is important, what advice he has for other similar courts and why he said the Supreme Court is not doing enough these days

On September 1 2010, new anti-pirating legislation aimed at curbing the pirating of DVDs and CDs entered into effect. The new regulations are set forth in Decree No 75/2010/ND-CP Providing Regulations on Administrative Penalties in the Area of Culture (Decree 75), which was promulgated by the Government on July 12 2010. Further guidelines for the new regulations were prescribed under Circular No 09/2010/TT-BVHTTDL of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, which was issued on August 24 2010.

Statistics show that the number of cases handled by Norwegian Customs involving goods infringing intellectual property rights, as well as the number of articles seized, is high. Counterfeit products and IP theft have real-world consequences.

Under the Korean Patent Act, the inventive step is determined by judging whether the invention could be easily conceived from the prior arts by a person having ordinary skill in the art.