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The Supreme Court of India has directed the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) to hear the Novartis matter on November 3 2008. During the recent patent row involving the cancer drug Glivec (imatinib mesylate) of Swiss pharma major Novartis, the constitution of IPAB came under scrutiny due to its reviews of the Indian patent office's decisions. The Supreme Court ordered the appointment of Dr PC Chakraborty, deputy controller general of patents and designs in the Kolkata office as the new technical member for hearing the Gleevec appeal. This was in response to the concerns expressed by Novartis over the existing member S Chandrasekharan, since he was the patent controller who rejected Novertis' beta patent. The IPAB is the board of appeals for intellectual property matters and consists of a chairman, one judicial member and one technical member.

Israel boasts a prolific scientific community. Most Israeli innovations reach global markets by means of sales, licences or strategic cooperation involving non-Israeli entities. In addition to the inquiries relevant to all such transactions, a number of Israeli due diligence questions should be addressed before purchasing or licensing technology developed in Israel.

The Federal Circuit last month ruled that the ITC could not extend a limited exclusion order barring the import of Qualcomm chips found to infringe Broadcom's patent to downstream products

The EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal is set to give a definitive ruling on the patentability of computer programs in Europe

In the Bilski decision, the Federal Circuit last month reaffirmed that business methods are patentable in the US, but rejected the "useful, concrete, tangible" test set forth in previous opinions

Salvatore Ferragamo last month won a key judgment from Korea's Supreme Court, in the latest in a series of rulings in favour of trade mark owners

Last month the result of the US WTO case against China for poor IP enforcement was leaked and both sides won on different points. Peter Ollier looks at the implications

India's trade mark registry granted its first sound mark in August this year. Ranjan Narula and Rachna Bakhru look at the implications for brand owners in the region

Maintaining consistency and ensuring stability in the patent examination process are crucial to the issuance of quality patents. Marian Underweiser of IBM proposes one way to make the process more predictable

As design protection becomes more common, a number of problems with the Locarno classification have become apparent. David Stone reports on an attempt to update the system