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This month Managing IP reveals the results of part one of the world's most detailed and authoritative survey of the IP market. Following five months' research, in this issue we list the leading firms in patent prosecution and contentious work in 65 jurisdictions

In a recent decision (Carvedilol II; X ZR 236/01), the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) has ruled on the validity of a second medical use claim comprising a dosage regimen for the beta-blocker carvedilol, the claim reading: "Use of carvedilol for the manufacture of a medicament ..., wherein the medicament is administered in an initial dose of 3.125 mg ... per day over a time period of 7 to 28 days, followed by dosage increases ...."

In the first decision, the Austrian Supreme Patent and Trade Mark Senate (ASPTS) has found that in a declaratory action concerning the non-infringement of a patent the existing right (patent) as defined in the register shall form the basis of the proceedings. Thus, only the subject matter in dispute shall be compared with the subject matter of the patent. However, the validity of the claims of the patent on which the action is based shall not be the object of these declaratory proceedings.

Last January, the Chilean Congress approved a bill establishing the National Institute of Industrial Property (INAPI). The draft law was sent to the Congress in 2000 on the initiative of the President, and aims to create a new autonomous agency in charge of the records and administration of industrial property in Chile, with a legal personality and its own assets. It is linked to the President of the Republic through the Ministry of the Economy. The chief of this entity will be a National Director, appointed directly by the President.

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

Magali Touroude of Cabinet Plasseraud reveals a revolution in French IP legislation

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Music buyers in the UK will soon pay less to download music from Apple's iTunes store after the US company said it would standardize music prices across Europe

Biedermann Motech and its licensee DePuy Spine won a patent infringement case in one of the first decisions to apply the US Supreme Court's directives in KSR v Teleflex

Leading patent firms in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and UAE