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Michael Koch and R N Gnanapragasam of Ella Cheong Spruson & Ferguson explain how patentees can make use of the recent Patent Law changes in Singapore

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Liew Woon Yin, director-general of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, talks to Phil Taylor about the challenges facing the Office and how it tries to help IP owners

Edward Farrington and Andrew Hammond of Valea AB compare parameter patents and reach-through claims

ELZABURU partner Miguel Angel Medina outlines some of the key differences between challenging trade mark applications at national and Community level

Hoffmann Eitle's Thorsten Bausch investigates why Germany's Federal Patent Court appears to be invalidating more patents than ever before

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Ernest Gutmann-Yves Plasseraud SAS, Lyon

In Common Services Agency v Scottish Information Commissioner, the House of Lords has ruled on the extent to which anonymised information about individuals constitutes "personal data" for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998. The decision makes clear that, in keeping with the EU Directive from which the UK's data protection legislation is derived, disclosure of fully anonymised personal information does not amount to processing of personal data which must be carried out in accordance with the data protection principles.