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YJ Trivedi and Tejas Trivedi of YJ Trivedi & Co consider enforcement strategy

Welcome to Managing IP's seventh India IP Focus. Not only is this year's edition by far the largest ever, with 20 articles, it is also the first to be published as a separate supplement. This move shows the increasing importance of intellectual property to companies doing business in India and also the increasing range of topics that IP owners need to be familiar with.

Dr Mohan Dewan and Ameet Deshpande of R K Dewan & Co consider jurisdiction in intellectual property law

On June 30 2010, the Taiwan IP Court delivered a first instance ruling on a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Dr G F Neumark Rothschild (professor emeritus of Columbia University) against two Taiwanese LED suppliers. The lawsuit was dismissed on the grounds that the based-upon Taiwanese invention patent number 41070, entitled, Process for Doping Crystals of Wide Band Gap Semiconductors (corresponding to US patent 4,904,618), was anticipated by a paper published in the May 1969 issue of Physical Review by Crowder et al entitled, "EPR and Luminescence Studies of Er+3 in Acceptor-Doped ZnTe". On the basis of a number of prior art references submitted by the defendants, the court ruled that Rothschild's patent should be deemed invalid.

Vipul N Bhuta and Sudha Jha of Aditya & Associates discuss trends in opposition and recent developments in design registration

Essenese Obhan, Aparna Kareer and Sumathi Chandrashekaran of Obhan and Associates review India’s requirements on the working of patents, in particular for imported inventions, and consider the impact on compulsory licences

Shantanu Sahay of Anand and Anand Advocates, Delhi considers the continuing development of IP

Greg Kalbaugh tells Peter Ollier about the work the US-India Business Council does to promote IP rights in India

The Polish Patent Office refused to grant the protection of international registration to the trade mark Premium De-Luxe Nemiroff for alcoholic drinks, in particular vodka. The refusal was issued due to similarity to an earlier series of trade marks, Premium, owned by a well-known Polish spirits producer and destined to denominate vodka.

Norway’s new Trade Mark Act entered into force on July 1 2010. The new Act mainly represents a modernisation of the old Act and codification of existing case law, but nevertheless introduces a few practically important changes worth mention.