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As Latin America becomes an increasingly important market, rights owners must be aware of the evolving laws around issues such as digital rights and non-traditional trade marks in the region. Managing IP discussed the key challenges with several prominent members of the Latin American IP community

The 20 years since Managing IP was launched have seen great shifts in the global economy, the profile of IP assets and the daily work of IP practitioners. James Nurton introduces a look back – and forward

Mark Schonfeld explains how companies can use trade mark law to thwart parallel traders

Last month a UK court ruled that football fixture lists can be protected under copyright law. In response, lawyers in five jurisdictions consider the role that copyright and sui generis database rights play in protecting such information

• Lawsuit boost for Microsoft in its piracy battle in China Microsoft has won its first big victory against a Chinese company using unlicensed software. The Shanghai Pudong New Area district court ordered Dazhong Insurance to pay Rmb2.17 million ($318,000) for using illegal copies of Microsoft software in a ruling on April 22. The win, now under appeal, validates the Seattle firm's push to target large companies in China that are infringing its copyright. According to the Business Software Alliance, China is the second largest market in the world for personal computers (PCs) but only the 10th largest for PC software.

Key events year by year 1990 October: Biggest patent damages award

Emma Barraclough, London

In another blow to multinational pharmaceutical companies in India, the Chennai Patent Office has invalidated a key patent owned by Swiss drug maker F Hoffmann La Roche, allowing generic competitors to enter the market

A full panel of the Federal Circuit has agreed to re-hear a case regarding the US doctrine of inequitable conduct, answering Chief Judge Paul Michel's plea to IP practitioners last year

On January 1 2011 Switzerland will for the first time in its history put into force unified civil procedure rules applying to the whole country. To date, each of the 26 cantons apply different procedural statutes.