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Two recent US cases will help to define the rights of copyright holders and service providers on the internet. Alan Lewine and Jay Westermeier explain

Legislators and enforcers of IP rights worldwide have struggled with one eternal question of where to draw the line between the overlapping areas of protection afforded by copyright law and design law to two/three-dimensional industrial products with external, eye-appealing features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to them.

Malaysia has become the latest country in Asia to set up its own domain name dispute resolution policy to deal with disputes concerning the registration of country-code top-level domain names.

A new Intellectual Property Law bill is expected to be presented to Parliament shortly. The present Law is contained in the Code of Intellectual Property Act No 52 of 1979.

The frictions between the laws regulating the ownership and exercise of IP rights and anti-competitive agreements are known and long-standing. What is less widely understood is the extent to which this situation will change following recent reforms to UK and EU competition law, explains Guy Lougher

Film piracy continues to flourish in India despite the best attempts of copyright owners and lawmakers. The campaign against piracy needs to be maintained if the industry is to make the most of its potential, argues Kavita Khan

Jingle writers and advertisers rely on mimicing well-known tunes, but do not want to fall foul of copyright laws.

As a survey reveals that IP enforcement in Russia is as big a problem as tax and customs, rights owners are turning to the courts for support. But Emily Downes finds that there is an urgent need for improved enforcement

Patent owners or other intellectual property right holders often find themselves in a difficult situation when they have to prove a case of infringement without having direct access to the object which is suspected to be infringing. This may, for example, be the case if only a few machines or apparatus have been manufactured, and if there is no possibility for the patent proprietor to analyze or inspect the machine without consent of the manufacturer or current owner. This is particularly troublesome for patent owners in Germany since there are no procedural rules by which a potential infringer could be forced to disclose relevant information with regard to the alleged infringement.

Ralph Cunningham, Hong Kong