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China’s amended patent law came into effect on October 1 2009. Wu Lili of CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office provides an outline of the most important changes

Peter Ollier talks to Lu Guoqiang about his work as director-general of the Shanghai IP Administration and how local and national authorities are cooperating to protect IP during the World Expo

It took six months and 20 rounds of voting but the Administrative Council of the EPO last month finally chose a successor to out-going president Alison Brimelow

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

Companies that want to enforce their IP in China are often confused by the options available. Aaron D Hurvitz of Kangxin Partners provides a guide

Hongyi Jiang of LexField Law Offices in Beijing provides a guide to patent litigation in China, focusing on the process, timing and award of damages

New SIPO Regulations and Guidelines came into force this year. Stephen Yang of Peksung Intellectual Property Ltd examines how they affect issues such as security examination, PCT applications and design patents

Wang Gang of China Patent Agent (HK) explains why companies need to be aware of changes to the rules for rewarding inventors

A monthly column devoted to IP curiosities and controversies, named in honour of John of Utynam – who received the world’s first recorded patent in 1449

Apple Inc applied to the Swiss Trade Mark Office to register the word mark IPHONE for broadly worded goods in classes 9 and 28, the specified class 9 goods being essentially telephones and functionally related products. The Office rejected the application for the class 9 goods on the grounds that the mark IPHONE will be immediately understood by consumers as describing a telephone with internet- or information technology-related functions, and accordingly represents a non-distinctive, descriptive indication.