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Italian search and description orders are proving highly effective, say Roberto Valenti and Giangiacomo Olivi of DLA Piper

Roberto Miranda spoke to Paola Frassi, professor of industrial property law at the University of Milan, about trade mark law practice, anti-counterfeiting and the impact of the London Agreement on Italy

From Fiona Rotstein and Andrew Christie

Microsoft has failed to overturn a decision in which it was found to have infringed patents belonging to z4 Technologies

The head of ICANN said that plans for new generic top-level domain names "terrified" him

Eileen McDermott, Cartagena

Japan's highest court has handed down its first ruling on the issue of patent exhaustion

WIPO director-general Kamil Idris will step down in September 2008, a year early

The growth of IP rights makes effective management more important than ever. Lynann Butkiewicz introduces a comparison of IP software and services providers

The German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) recently issued a decision (X ZR 60/06) that makes it clear that the patent owner's right to choose the best method of calculating damages in an infringement suit ends when a first relevant court decision comes into force. This is true even if the patent owner has exercised his right to choose before the court decision comes into force. The BGH stated that, at a specific time, the infringer has to know the extent of the liability. The infringer has to be able to plan for the future and has to be able to calculate the amount of reserves to be set aside.