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In order to enforce an IP right, it is first essential to be able to prove the extent to which it is infringed. The Belgian Judiciary Code offers a particularly powerful tool for the owners of certain IP rights, such as patents, to achieve this in the form of the descriptive seizure.

The Osaka High Court has acquitted the designer of a peer-to-peer file-sharing software from charges of intentionally assisting copyright infringement

In a recent domain name dispute decision (ZA2009-0028), the adjudicator ruled that the domain name registration of gardenmaster.co.za was abusive despite the fact that the registrant had been using the Gardenmaster trade mark for longer than the complainant.

James Nurton, Washington DC

An important task of the State Administration of Industry & Commerce (SAIC) of China is to strengthen its control and supervision of trade mark agencies. To this end, on August 12 2009 the SAIC issued the Notice Concerning Further Regulating the Market Order of Trade Mark Agencies.

There are many ways to exploit your IP assets. Paul Teta and Bill Cawley explain how to analyse your portfolio and maximise its commercial potential

David Kappos has taken over an IP Office under fire. What will he do to change the way the US IP Office grants intellectual property rights? Eileen McDermott spoke to the new director to find out more

Under Australian practice, it is possible to lodge amendments to add claims during litigation in order to further target a potential infringer's product. This is particularly useful, especially when the product has appeared on the market after the patent has been granted.

As reported in the March 2007 issue, in our opinion Austria has not fully implemented Article 10 of the EU Enforcement Directive. In particular, Austrian law does not provide for a measure to recall infringing goods from the channels of commerce. When implementing the Enforcement Directive to Austrian national law, the legislator considered that corresponding corrective measures already existed in the Austrian IP Acts as – with respect to patents – Article 148 of the Austrian Patents Act generally provides for that the infringer has to eliminate the unlawful situation.

US antritrust watchdogs have questioned the concept of settlement agreements between generic and brand drug companies