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Sung-Nam Kim and Gavin Healy of Kim & Chang provide a comprehensive guide to the system for the prosecution of trade marks

The law has struggled to keep up with internet developments. But, say Hoo Dong Lee, Boh Young Hwang and Sang Chul Jung of Bae, Kim & Lee LLC, recent court decisions and copyright law amendments are clarifying some questions in Korea

Dukkyu Choi of DK Choi & Partners discusses the registrability issues surrounding descriptive and suggestive marks

The Court of Appeal in Malaysia in the case of Microsoft Corporation v Yong Wai Hong [2008] 3 MLJ 309, recently overturned the decision of the High Court and granted relief to Microsoft Corporation in the form of a perpetual injunction on a summary judgment application. The High Court's decision, from which this appeal stems from, had in fact disallowed Microsoft's application for a perpetual injunction on the basis that the respondent had raised triable issues in good faith and that a perpetual injunction ought not to be granted summarily.

On the last session day, October 8 2008, the Philippine Senate ratified the controversial Agreement Between the Republic of the Philippines and Japan for Economic Partnership (JPEPA). This agreement was signed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and then by Japan Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on September 9 2006, and required the ratification of the parliaments of both countries. Japan quickly approved it in December 2006. Having been objected to by different sectors, it took longer to obtain the agreement of the Senate. The JPEPA is the first bilateral economic pact for the Philippines, and was designed after the Japan-Singapore Economic Partnership Agreement (JSEPA), the first bilateral economic partnership agreement entered into by Japan and considered as a means to promote the economic relations of Japan with other ASEAN countries.

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A UK court has awarded Canadian generic company Apotex £17.5 million ($28.3 million) in damages after an interim injunction preventing it from making a generic version of French pharmaceutical company Servier's drug Coversyl was overturned.

Liu Shen & Associates, Beijing

EGYP, Paris

As the internet continues to grow as a marketing and sales tool for businesses, so too does the number of internet scams and frauds. The increasing complexity of internet scams can make it quite difficult for a trade mark owner to tell the difference between a legitimate sales solicitation that might be appropriate to consider and a blatant scam that should be avoided.