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Turkey, a member of the EPO, is now eyeing membership of the European Union and is updating its IP laws to bring them in line with EU legislation. Emma Barraclough spoke to Yusuf Balci, chairman of the Turkish Patent Institute, about the Institute's work, and how to protect your IP rights in Turkey

A partially valid patent refers to a situation where some claims in a granted patent are found valid while other (typically broader) claims are found invalid, for example, during infringement proceedings.

The UK Court of Appeal has made it clear that if a court awards damages in a patent infringement case, the order cannot be overturned if the patent is later found invalid by the EPO

The last decade has seen many bright rays of industrial and intellectual developments within Indian industry. The Sensex has been soaring to record levels leading to a great transformation of India's financial scenario. Therefore it is imperative that one of the fastest growing economies in Asia also feels the necessity to protect its precious IP leading to a doubling of the number of patent and copyright applications in the past two years.

The German Federal Patent Court recently upheld the first instance decision of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (GPTO) judging the word marks Quellgold and Goldquell to be confusingly similar in the sense of paragraph 9 section 1 No 2 of the German Trade Mark Act.

The government of Kenya, mindful of its obligations under the TRIPS Agreement, published the Counterfeit Goods Bill back in 2005. The Bill would provide for direct, effective action against counterfeiters by a specialized agency. However, its progress towards the statute book has been impeded by prolonged recesses of Parliament and preparations for general elections, to be held later in 2007.

The High Court has recently attempted to clarify the extremely complicated area of law in Australia dealing with the overlap between the Copyright and Designs Acts.

Cambridge University Press has won two injunctions in New Delhi to stop the company's rights in its English language teaching material from being infringed

In Retail Systems Technology Limited v P J Mcguire, Darragh Mcguire and Kelly and Mcguire Limited [2007] IEHC13 2 February 2007, the Irish High Court reconsidered the law in relation to the assessment of damages for copyright infringement and measured copyright damages by applying the same principles used for evaluating damages in patent infringement cases. This case concerned a claim by a technology company that its copyright in an electronic point of sale software product had been infringed by the defendants. Liability was conceded and the plaintiff elected an assessment of damages, which is governed by Section 128 of the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000.

Ersin Dereligil of Destek Patent Inc outlines Turkey's patent regime and highlights recent efforts to bring it up to European standards