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

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

It has long been accepted that the UK does not acknowledge image rights as a distinct legal concept. In the first half of a two-part article, Isabel Davies and Tom Scourfield look at the face of image rights in the UK following a recent House of Lords judgment

Recent cases in the US and Europe may make international arbitration a more attractive option in international IP disputes. Alan M Anderson and Christopher A Young explain why, and examine how arbitration can be effective for both parties

Navigating your way around the maze of national domain name dispute resolution procedures can be tricky. But it is essential if you want to take on the cybersquatters - and win. Emma Barraclough introduces a survey of eight Asian jurisdictions which considers what rights owners need to know to reclaim their rights

US trade negotiators will be forced to limit the IP demands they make of their trading partners under a new policy announced by American politicians on May 10

In a case between Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) and Philips, the Supreme Administrative Court of Taiwan made a final ruling on April 4 2007. The Court held that a patent pool that included patents owned by Philips, Sony and Taiyo Yuden which were licensed in a package to Taiwan's CD-R manufacturers was not a concerted action. It upheld the ruling of the Taipei High Administrative Court to revoke the decision of the FTC and said that the term "concerted action" used in Article 14 of the Fair Trade Act refers to the action of enterprises with a competitive relationship. Such competitive relationship will be deemed to exist where the goods or services provided by the enterprises are substitutable by each other's goods or services. Since the CD-R manufacturers must use the orange book-compliant techniques covered by the patents owned by Philips, Sony and Taiyo Yuden in combination in order to produce CD-Rs, and since CD-Rs cannot be produced using any one of the patents alone, the Court held that the patents owned by Philips, Sony and Taiyo Yuden are complementary to each other rather than substitutable for each other. As such, there is no competitive relationship among them.

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.

With regard to pending marketing authorization applications, the register of the National Agency for Medicines (NAM) has so far disclosed only the filing date, the number of the applicants and applications and the active ingredient to a third party. In accordance with a recent decision from the Supreme Administrative Court, a third party is now also entitled to obtain, upon request, information on the identity of the applicant and the type of the application before the marketing authorization is granted.