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A recent decision (Olivine Industries Pty Ltd v D H Brothers Pty Ltd) by the Zambia Registrar of Trade Marks enunciated her Office’s “consistent” but controversial principle that oppositions cannot be based on unregistered marks.

In a controversial resolution, the Argentine IP office, INPI, has established limitations on the filing of divisional patent applications, arguing that divisional applications increase the number of applications to be examined, therefore increasing the backlog of pending applications to be resolved.

Shanti Kumar of LEXORBIS IP Practice considers the patentability of software-related inventions

Mita Sheikh of Krishna & Saurastri Associates discusses Myriad and the Indian position on gene patents

Multinational companies are increasingly finding themselves litigating in multiple jurisdictions. Michael Elmer and Stacy Lewis reveal findings from Finnegan's Global IP Project to help IP counsel choose the best first-strike forum

Clean energy innovation has taken centre stage for the US and China. Rodger Sadler, Chi Cheung, Xiang Wang and Yali Hu provide tips for companies seeking to enter the market in this increasingly essential sector

Peter Ollier, Hong Kong and Simon Crompton, London

Eileen McDermott, New York, Peter Ollier, Hong Kong, and Simon Crompton, London

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.

During June this year, a delegation from Microsoft, Dell, Cisco, VeriSign and Symantec met with the Syrian president, Bashar Al Asad, as well as several ministers and business people. They also visited local universities. The purpose of the visit, according to the Wall Street Journal, was to woo Syria away from its strategic alliance with Iran by showcasing the benefits of US technology that would be available to Syria if US sanctions against it were lifted.