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Act 221/2006 Coll on the enforcement of industrial property rights transposed Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and Council on the enforcement of IP rights. This unified the scope of the rights possessed by owners with respect to the individual types of intellectual property when they are infringed, as well as potential remedies. The sanctions for any IP infringement (regarding trade marks, patents, topographies of semiconductor products, utility models, industrial designs, appellations of origin and geographic designations) and the type of remedy are no longer incorporated in the statutes regulating their creation, extent, duration and expiry, but are to be found in one single Act.

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 ...."

Franck Soutoul and Jean-Philippe Bresson of Inlex analyze differences between EU and French trade mark practice, and discuss the particular problems that Google poses

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On December 18 2007, the Regional Trial Court of Quezon City (RTC) under presiding Judge Reynaldo Daway found Avida Land Corporation (Avida) guilty of patent infringement and ordered it to pay inventor Edgardo Vasquez and his company Vasquez Building Systems Corporation (VBSC), P96.5 million ($2.37 million) in temperate, moral, exemplary damages and attorney's fees.

Recent case law has cast a wide net with the potential to catch patent owners making threats of patent infringement litigation in Australia.

The Board of Appeal of the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) recently handed down a decision criticizing ARIPO's handling of a trade mark application (In the matter of Trade Mark Application No AP/M/2005/000303 Fones 4 U in the name of Langton Nyatsambo).

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

With over one billion people, India is one of the world's largest markets for films. This includes both home grown "Bollywood" and Hollywood films. However, both Hollywood and Bollywood complain that piracy, a phenomenon throughout Asia, is cutting into their earnings. Both lose millions of dollars a year due to lax enforcement of copyright laws in India. Dan Glickman, chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said at a recent Confederation of Indian Industry meeting that the biggest competitor faced by both Hollywood and Bollywood was piracy.

The concept of a trade mark will never be the same in Chile. To adapt and comply with international treaties signed by the Chilean government, a series of modifications have been made to the Chilean IP Law, including a new definition of a trade mark as "any sign that can be graphically represented, which is able to distinguish products or services". Therefore, not only words, logos, labels and colour combinations can be protected, but also sounds.