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Supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) as provided by Regulation 1768/92/EEC can extend the lifetime of a patent protecting medicines up to five years. SPCs were devised to compensate for the reduced duration of these patents caused by the lengthy procedures involved in obtaining marketing authorization before the launch of a new medicinal product.

The government of Croatia adopted a new regulation on August 8 2007 to amend Customs measures relating to goods suspected of infringing particular IP rights.

In a recent decision, the Austrian Supreme Court clarified certain aspects of the legitimacy of addressing warning letters to employees. In the case, an interim injunction was granted to the defendant against the claimant's "sales manager Austria". As the claimant had no place of business in Austria, but sold infringing coffee machines via its Austrian distributors, the defendant felt impelled to warn the employees of the claimant who were actively participating in the distribution of the infringing coffee machines in Austria that an accomplice or assistant is also liable for patent infringement.

Originator drugs companies who want to obtain an injunction against well-advised makers of generics need to hone their strategies. Liz Lawson and John Hannebery of Davies Collison Cave Solicitors explain how

Many IP practitioners believe that the High Court's ruling in Lockwood v Doric has made it harder to invalidate patents in Australia. But that's not the whole story, say Rebekah Gay and Paul Harrison of Shelston IP

Interlocutory injunctions are an important part of any litigant’s armoury. Here, Peter Chalk of Blake Dawson explains the options available to IP owners in the Australian courts

The Australian government passed a series of amendments to the Trade Marks Act in October 2006. Brett Lewis and Sally Foreman of Davies Collison Cave explain how these changes affect trade mark prosecution

Managing IP asked academics Kim Weatherall and David Brennan to debate whether copyright reform has gone too far in favour of rights holders

From Laurence Julien-Raes and and Xavier Buffet Delmas

The Delhi High Court has prevented an Indian publisher from selling fake versions of a Harry Potter book