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The National Board of Patents and Registration has recently established a list into which trade marks with a reputation may be entered on application. According to the National Board of Patents and Registration the purpose of the list is to better serve business life, agents and all other circles that need to obtain information about marks with a reputation. The list may also be helpful when conducting preliminary examinations and tests of confusing similarity concerning trade marks. Consequently, the list undoubtedly has a preventive effect on trade mark litigation.

Readers may have heard that Central America and the Dominican Republic last year bought a little over $16 billion in US exports. This sum is more than the United States sells to India, Indonesia, and Russia combined, and is enough to constitute the second largest export market for the US.

New Zealand law makers are addressing the adequacy of the law governing ownership of copyright in commissioned work, otherwise known as the commissioning rule, and it appears that a change is imminent.

Bajaj Auto Limited has set in motion a row over alleged patent infringement by TVS Motor Company. Bajaj, the country's second biggest motorcycle manufacturer, has accused TVS of infringing its IP rights in its patented engine technology. This is the first time two big Indian companies have been involved in such a high profile dispute over ownership of a technology. The row began when TVS Motor Company unveiled its latest bike, Flame.

The Australian courts have again recently helped enforce patent rights by taking a liberal and flexible view of claim interpretation. This supplements the position taken in a recently reported Australian High Court case in which a decision relating to obviousness also favoured the patent holder (Lockwood Security Products Pty Ltd v Doric Products Pty Ltd (No 2) [2007] HCA 21).

The new Customs and Trade Mark Registry will enable the Customs Administration and the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property to collaborate effectively. Yet a more general improvement of legislation may be slow to follow, explains Saul Santoyo of Uhthoff, Gomez Vega & Uhthoff SC

When patented substances have second uses, complications may result. Agustín Velázquez G L, Guillermo Alberto González Ortega, Alberto Huerta Bleck and Álvaro Huerta González of Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes discuss how Mexican courts have responded

Patent applications in Mexico are on the increase, but disparities between national and foreign applications remain. Fernando Rosales-Vázquez, of Becerril, Coca & Becerril, SC, discusses the statistics, which graphically illustrate the imbalance

The US House of Representatives has passed a wide-ranging patent reform bill, but does it have any chance of becoming law?

Emma Barraclough, London