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  • Thailand has broken three drugs patents within the past four months and is reported to have a longer list of compulsory licence targets in its sights. Peter Ollier explains why pharmaceutical companies are nervous
  • Why is Red Hat - a leader in open source software - building a patent armoury? The answer may lie in the problems with software patents in the US - problems which the Community Patent Review, backed by Red Hat and others, aims to address. Shahnaz Mahmud visited the company's North Carolina headquarters to find out more
  • Speaking in Geneva at the launch of a global survey carried out by Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP), chairmen and CEOs from multinational companies including Nestlé, Vivendi Universal and Sanofi-Aventis warned that counterfeiting and piracy are among the biggest challenges facing business today.
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  • Customs is working with the publishing industry to combat India's unique piracy and counterfeit issues. By Akash Chittranshi and Jyoti Taneja of Akash Chittranshi & Associates
  • Sunita K Sreedharan of Anand and Anand describes India's efforts to clarify the patentability of pharmaceutical substances
  • Manisha Singh-Nair of Lex Orbis considers how the recent changes to India's patent law - and the proposals contained in the eagerly-awaited Mashelkar Committee report - will affect rules on patentability
  • Australia: The Australian Federal Court is planning to introduce new guidelines to make patent litigation quicker and cheaper. Proposals include making the first directions hearing more like a case conference, holding a directions hearing to address whether more than one expert needs to be called in each field of expertise and allowing discovery only after evidence.
  • The European Commission's plans to introduce regular reviews of CTM fees are likely to lead to further reductions. These will be welcomed by rights owners - but opposed by some member states. James Nurton and Emma Barraclough report
  • 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