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Eileen McDermott reports from Washington DC on the oral arguments in the Bilski case

Having a well-known trade mark often offers additional protection against infringement. Correspondents in six jurisdictions explain how to maximise your rights

Ling Ho, Audrey Shum and Kathryn Sanger explain how China's new Patent Law has affected the way commercial contracts should be drafted

John Rondini and David Syrowik examine how patent owners are adapting their business practices a year on from Quanta

As the economic downturn bites, in-house IP theft is on the rise. Martin Baldock explains the role of computer forensics in catching the culprits and provides advice on keeping your data safe

Courts around the world dealt with some cutting-edge IP cases during 2009. Managing IP's team of journalists explain how the winning side prevailed in 10 of the most important

Mae Lin Ng and Pui Keng Lim of Advanz Fidelis look at possible amendments to the Trade Marks Act and pick out significant court cases of the last year

Over the last four years there has been a clarification of the Polish Patent Office's (PPO) practice in the field of patent prosecution. The application of a divide-and-conquer approach to subject matter of patent applications have resulted in narrow criteria of patentability in general being established.

In Romania, during the communist regime, all inventions considered of interest for the economy had to be assigned by their inventors to the state, through its institutions (such as ministries) or companies which were all entirely owned by the state. However, all inventions considered of interest that were not assigned by their inventors in favor of the state, were expropriated for the benefit of the latter. As a consequence of the legal or voluntary assignment, an author/inventor certificate was granted to the inventors who were also entitled to a consideration based on the advantages brought by the effective application of the inventions. In practice, in many cases, even if the law provided this consideration, it was not paid to the inventors.

PO: What are the main problems that IP owners encounter when trying to work with Customs? KM: Before the admission of Vietnam, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Cambodia, Malaysia was the only country in ASEAN that shares borders with all ASEAN countries. So geographically we are special, but this also poses a challenge