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A string of high-profile cases has raised the question of where the boundaries of trade mark protection should be drawn. In the first article in a series, a team of correspondents compare trade mark registrability in eight countries from China to Chile

Music companies have won the right to search three Australian universities' servers for evidence of copyright infringement. But Catherine Lee argues that stricter control of universities' networks will not necessarily solve the problem of illegal downloading

Korea allows patent protection to many of the biotechnology inventions which are also protected in the US, Europe and Japan. While few cases to test the patentability of biotechnology inventions have reached the courts in Korea, there are expected to be more in the years to come, writes Kook-jin OH, of YP Lee, Mock & Partners

Due to the great flow of capital generated by royalties payments between nations, as well as between Mexican citizens and foreigners, the legal attorneys of IP rights owners must consider the fiscal rules. In accordance with Mexican law, fiscal treatment is granted to the income obtained from royalties payments, so that the payments can be deductible and generate a benefit to their clients.

Where to litigate and how to collect evidence are two of the more important issues for a party in a patent infringement action in China. In the first of a two-part article, Gordon Gao explains how to avoid mistakes

There are two results of prosecuting trade mark applications in any part of the world: either you obtain a registration, or you do not. However, in Mexico there has not been a trade mark denial resulting from not overcoming citations or registrability objections for about 10 years.

Microsoft will appeal a Chicago jury verdict that ordered it to pay $521 million to the University of California and Eolas Technologies for patent infringement.

Draft legislation will revamp Australia's designs law. But it may not achieve its twin aims of making registration tougher and strengthening enforcement, argue Jamie Nettleton and Lydia Santoso

An agreement on access to medicines thrashed out before the start of the WTO's Cancun meeting was a salve for the beleaguered conference, but the temporary solution still leaves many questions unanswered. Ingrid Hering reports

The European Commission proposes to make radical changes to technology licensing within Europe. The proposed new Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (TTBER) is presented as a business-friendly liberalization of the European technology transfer regime. However, many commentators feel that these proposals will stifle technology transfer, considerably reduce the value of intellectual property rights, and may cause Europe to fall further behind the United States in the development of new technology industries.