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Nandita Saikia of Saikrishna and Associates considers the proposed copyright law reform

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.

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

Alendronate is marketed by Merck as Fosomax, which has annual worldwide sales of over $1 billion.

The data appearing in the annual statistics published by the European Patent Office confirms Italy as one of the top 10 countries for the number of European patent applications filed per year.

Dr Malathi Lakshmikumaran and Badri Narayanan of Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (L&S) consider the changing face of patent law

Prietika Siingh and Dheeraj Seth of Inttl Advocare discuss the registrability of well-known trade marks

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.

Growing investment in India, and patent reform, have put more attention on the country’s courts. In a roundtable discussion held in Delhi in August, James Nurton asked litigation specialists how judges are responding, whether reforms are needed and what strategies parties should adopt for success