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Last month Dubai hosted the Fourth Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting. Managing IP and Rouse & Co organized a roundtable to discuss how the issues raised affect IP owners in the region

A monthly column devoted to IP curiosities and controversies, named in honour of John of Utynam - who received the world's first recorded patent in 1449

The full, unabridged, interviews with the candidates for the position of WIPO director-general, in alphabetical order

The UK Intellectual Property Office has changed its policy on the patenting of software, two weeks after a judge said that the Office was wrong to reject all patent claims to computer program products

Japan's IP High Court celebrates its third anniversary in April. Yoshikazu Iwase looks at how its decisions so far have affected IP owners

Under United States trade mark law, trade mark rights are territorial. Therefore, owners of well-known foreign trade marks which are not in use in the United States may face the dilemma of what enforcement options may be available to prevent a US company that has sought to take advantage of the renown of a foreign mark by offering goods and services in the United States under the well known foreign mark without authorization of the trade mark owner.

Recent proceedings between T-Mobile (UK) Limited and O2 Holdings Limited have highlighted the relationship between revocation and invalidity of trade mark registrations, specifically: does one preclude the other?

With elections for a new WIPO director-general slated for May, Eklavya Gupte talked to the candidates for the top job

The current patent law in the Sultanate of Oman was introduced by Royal Decree number 82/2000, but due to logistical and administrative constraints, the Omani patent office only started accepting patent applications in December 2005, after the Ministry of Commerce published the official fees of patent applications in Oman.

A judicial storm swept through the streets of Moscow and almost buried Venezia under the waves of attacks by a Russian owner of a similar trade mark. The story began when a Russian entrepreneur registered the trade mark Venezi in many classes including classes 41 and 43 covering restaurants. The trade mark was registered in block letters in Cyrillics in black and white. That was back in 2002. Years later another entrepreneur opened a restaurant under the name of Viaggio Italiano Venezia in the centre of Moscow. The owner of the trade mark filed a suit in court demanding the restaurateur to remove the confusingly similar designation from the signboard, menu, bills, etc. The court of first instance rejected the claims of the trade mark owner, in part because the plaintiff did not introduce on the market goods labelled with the Venezi trade mark that would fall under classes 41 and 43.