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Mexican intellectual property law protects producers, manufacturers, and service providers of all types from having the distinctive features of their products copied, exploited or reproduced without the proper authorisation.

A good portion of the practice of most IP law firms is in litigating against parties that infringe on US patents. But it is important to understand that infringement may occur in three different forms: direct infringement, inducement of infringement and contributory infringement.

The Indonesian government's IP enforcement team, known locally as TimNas, has begun the process of consulting with stakeholders about its IP enforcement strategy for 2010.

The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) of the EPO has recently decided case G 1/07 dealing with the exclusion from patentability of surgical methods.

The Canadian Federal Court emphasised the importance of filing a patent application with the correct set of figures in Scannex Technologies, LLC v Attorney General of Canada (2009 FC 1068). After a US patent application was filed, a corresponding international patent application was filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) with a different and thus incorrect set of figures. This PCT application entered the national phase in Canada as a Canadian patent application. The applicant requested that the Commissioner of Patents substitute the incorrect figures in the Patent Application with correct figures pursuant to section 8 of the Patent Act, which affords the Commissioner the discretion to correct clerical errors. In support, the applicant filed an affidavit stating that incorrect figures were filed due to the unintentional error of a clerk of the applicant's agent in the US, and filed a certified copy of the US patent application containing the correct figures. Notwithstanding the applicant's efforts, the Commissioner refused to correct the figures. The applicant then applied to the Federal Court for judicial review.

Battles between publishers and Amazon over the right price to sell e-Books have highlighted the difficulty of pricing content online, says Peter Ollier

Following plans to include Israel among the OECD countries, the US is considering downgrading Israel from the US Special 301 Priority Watch List of serious IP offenders. The change is, however, dependent on Israel amending its Patent Law to make it easier to obtain extensions for pharmaceutical patents.

A growing number of high-tech companies that built their businesses on the back of proprietary IP are experimenting with open-source. Mark Kenrick explains why

Seven years after LVMH sued Google over its AdWords programme, Europe’s top court has ruled that the search engine is not liable under EU trade mark law. But that’s far from the end of the story

Bonan Lin of Zhongzi Law Office explains how the revised Patent Law and related regulations will affect companies that innovate in China