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WIPO's General Assemblies ended with calls for director-general Kamil Idris to resign and an unset budget. What next for the Organization?

The Delhi High Court has prevented an Indian publisher from selling fake versions of a Harry Potter book

In September, Managing IP organized a web seminar on the latest trends in technology licensing in association with Greenberg Traurig. James Nurton reports

Eklavya Gupte, London

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GlaxoSmithKline is to acquire the rights to the skin-cancer drug STA-4783 developed by Synta Pharmaceuticals for $1.1 billion, it said on October 10.

Mihály Ficsor, vice-president of the Hungarian Patent Office, explains why Europe needs strong national IP offices

Eileen McDermott, New York

A number of legislative changes in Irish data protection law have already taken effect and further developments are due to take effect in October 2007. These developments provide some welcome clarification for practitioners.

It is imperative for the plaintiff to prove that the process of manufacture adopted by the defendant or that such imitation amounts to infringement. This duty rests on the plaintiff, so as to establish the infringement suit prima facie. Undoubtedly, the question of infringement of a patent is a mixed question of law and fact. In this scenario the ruling of the Madras High Court in FDC Limited & Ors v Sanjeev Khandelwal & Ors 2007 (35) PTC 436 (Mad), that ex parte injunctions be granted only after an effective judicial scrutiny of both oral as well as documentary evidence, becomes of paramount importance.