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There are several ways to accelerate examination of a patent application in Korea, three of which foreign applicants may find interesting.

The patent prosecution highway (PPH) pilot programme between the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) was implemented on February 2 2009 to allow applicants to obtain corresponding patents in the United States and Singapore more quickly and efficiently. Under the PPH, when at least one claim in an application in either one of these countries has been found to be patentable, the applicant can apply for fast track examination of the corresponding claim(s) in the US and Singapore patent applications, respectively.

On January 17 2009, the regulations of Legislative Decree No 1072 regarding the "Pharmaceutical Test Data Protection and other undisclosed data of pharmaceutical products" were published in the Peruvian gazette, El Peruano.

The doctrine of collateral estoppel can assist parties facing costly litigation. Robert Berezin and Carmen Bremer consider how it can be invoked in patent disputes

Selecting the right venue is a vital step when litigating in China. Peter Ollier explains why plaintiffs may benefit from considering courts beyond Beijing and Shanghai

Australia's highest court recently narrowed the scope of copyright protection for compilations and databases

I think one of our licensees may have financial problems. Although I am reluctant to take drastic action that may sever our business relationship, how can I ensure that we protect our IP?

Practitioners in six jurisdictions explain how the law protects event organisers and sponsors from ambush marketing

The case of Roma Drug vs Glaxo Smith Kline et al (GR no 149907, April 15 2009) is interesting because it retroactively applied the controversial Republic Act no 9502 or the Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008. On August 14 2000, using a search warrant issued by the Regional Trial Court of Pampanga upon the complaint of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Roma Drug store owned by Romeo Rodriguez was raided by a team composed of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) operatives and inspectors of the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD).

The first search reports carried out by the European Patent Office (EPO) on Italian national patent applications are finally reaching the applicants. Applicants may either entrust an agent to go to the Italian Patent and Trade Mark Office (PTO) to collect the documents (and, in so doing, relieve the PTO of some of its workload as it is being flooded by hundreds of searches coming in from the EPO), or wait for the PTO to send the searches by registered mail. It seems, therefore, that for the time being the PTO has set aside the option of transmitting the searches online.