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With over one billion people, India is one of the world's largest markets for films. This includes both home grown "Bollywood" and Hollywood films. However, both Hollywood and Bollywood complain that piracy, a phenomenon throughout Asia, is cutting into their earnings. Both lose millions of dollars a year due to lax enforcement of copyright laws in India. Dan Glickman, chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said at a recent Confederation of Indian Industry meeting that the biggest competitor faced by both Hollywood and Bollywood was piracy.

On October 22 2007 the Australian government eased our duty of disclosure provisions.

For several months breastfeeding advocacy groups and the Pharmaceutical and Health Care Association of the Philippines (PHAP) have been at loggerheads over the implementation of the Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (RIRR) of Executive Order No 51, known as the Milk Code, which was to take effect on July 7 2006. However, the PHAP filed a petition for certiorari before the Supreme Court (GR No 173034) against Department of Health (DOH) officials, questioning the constitutionality of the RIRR, claiming it was inconsistent with the Milk Code that was issued on October 28 1986. The DOH secured a temporary restraining order enjoining the DOH from implementing the RIRR.

Recent news in the Turkish media about the registration of Turkish lokum by another party in European Union and thus the prevention of commercial activities relating to lokum in the Community drew the public's attention to the protection of geographical indications (GIs).

Italy has introduced a raft of new laws to comply with the EU Directive on unfair practice. Paolo Bertoni and Marco Montesano of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer explain how this will help the good practitioners

Roberto Miranda spoke to Paola Frassi, professor of industrial property law at the University of Milan, about trade mark law practice, anti-counterfeiting and the impact of the London Agreement on Italy

IP owners succeeded in blocking the USPTO's controversial rules on continuation applications from coming into force just hours before they were due to take effect. But where does that leave applicants now? Eileen McDermott reports

Microsoft has failed to overturn a decision in which it was found to have infringed patents belonging to z4 Technologies

From Fiona Rotstein and Andrew Christie

Users have emphasized the need for global harmonization of the patent application process