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When Argentina joined the TRIPs Agreement in 1995, the Patent Law was modified to include the minimum standards. One of the most important changes was the term for which patent protection would be available for inventions in Argentina. The former Patent Law 111 established that patent protection was for 15 years from the granting date. Under this system, the prosecution delays of the Patent Office did not matter very much because they did not affect the effective life of the patent. But when Argentina adapted its regulations to TRIPs standards in 1995, and Argentina's Patent Law 24,481 was enacted, the situation changed completely, and the term of patents was set at 20 years counted from the date of filing of the application.

The Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill 2006 recently passed, unamended, through Australia's Federal Parliament. The Bill offers potential benefits to Australia's generic pharmaceutical sector by permitting enhanced springboarding activities in relation to drug patents.

The government of Cape Verde is preparing to introduce modern industrial property laws. The new legislation will repeal a Portuguese Code of 1940 which had applied to Cape Verde but had fallen into disuse. In preparation for the new system, the processing of trade mark registrations under the old Code has been temporarily revived.

Entitlement disputes under the UK Patents Act have recently undergone something of a revival with several cases reaching the courts. Interestingly though, Patent Office figures reveal that the number of entitlement disputes filed before the Patent Office has remained steady over recent years as has the number of cases referred from the Patent Office to the UK courts. Why then is everyone discussing entitlement disputes under UK law?

Graeme Hall and John Glengarry of Buddle Findlay assess the IP enforcement options available in New Zealand and identify a trend towards alternative forms of dispute resolution

In an extract from their book Little Blues: How to Build a Culture of Intellectual Property Within a Small Technology Company, André Carter and Raymond Millien examine how a small business with IP rights can also nurture an IP culture

Ian Finch and David Marriott of James & Wells laud New Zealand's virtues as a test market for IP litigation cases, or to test the strength of patents and trade marks

The US patent law is about to undergo a major change with a raft of reforms set to be implemented. These changes are considered to be the most comprehensive since Congress passed the 1952 patent Act. But, the path has not been smooth, with voices of dissent materializing as the government carves out its plans. MIP and Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt jointly hosted a roundtable discussion – at a real roundtable – in Washington DC in late summer, to discuss some of those concerns and what really needs to be done

In the latest twist in the long-running battle between Sanofi-aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb and Apotex, the originator drugs companies secured a preliminary injunction against the Canadian company to stop it selling generic versions of their blockbuster anti-blood clotting drug Plavix.

Do you know a DNS from a DIG? What's the difference between a domainer and a typosquatter? If you want to protect your brands on the internet, then you need to know the answers to questions such as these. Nick Wood and Michael Murphy provide an A to Z guide to domain name jargon