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Randy J Pritzker counsels companies and investors to maximise deal value by conducting efficient and thorough IP audits

David Wilson and Duncan Ribbons explain how to develop a strategy and manage the international patent litigation process

Ard Ellens and Jan Kevelam of Nederlandsch Octrooibureau explain how new rules at the European Patent Office may trap the unwary patent applicant

The dilution doctrine, which aims to prohibit the blurring or tarnishing of the image of well-known trade marks through unauthorised appropriation by others, was incorporated in May 2003 into the Taiwan Trademark Act. Since then, a person shall be held liable for trade mark infringement if they knowingly use, without consent, a trade mark identical with or similar to another's well-known registered trade mark or the word(s) in that trade mark as their company name, trade name, domain name or as an indication of origin of goods or services, thereby diluting the well-known trade mark.

Litigating patents that are essential to technical standards requires a careful consideration of antitrust rules. Sabine Agé and Amandine Métier of Véron & Associés, Klaus Haft and Tobias Hahn of Reimann Osterrieth Köhler Haft, Mark van Gardingen of Brinkhof and Ari Laakkonen of Powell Gilbert explain the rules in their own jurisdictions

In a recently published appeal before the Amsterdam Court of Appeal (Netherlands Patent Office Journal 2009, Number 20, pages 75-78), the court considered the implications of an exclusive distribution agreement on know-how protection.

On July 1 2009, the Rule on Mandatory Legal Aid Service, which was issued by the Philippine Supreme Court on February 10 this year, takes effect. This Rule mandates practising lawyers to render free legal aid services equivalent to a minimum of 60 hours a year, in all cases whether civil, criminal and administrative involving indigent and pauper litigants needing lawyers. The purpose of the Rule is to improve access to justice by the less privileged thereby enhancing the duty of lawyers to society as agents of social change, and to the courts.

The European directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions 98/44/EC was transformed into national law on June 10 2005. The Austrian parliament has connected the establishment of a special monitoring committee to this transformation. This committee (the Biopatent Monitoring Committee) had the task of monitoring the impact of this transformation into Austrian law on

China's Supreme People's Court has explained how IP trials should be conducted in the economic crisis in a formal Opinion that may result in courts granting fewer injunctions

On June 6 2009, the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) came into force in Peru. As a result, there are now three ways for obtaining protection for an invention: 1) the national application or direct application, 2) the application under the Paris Convention and 3) the application under the PCT system.