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James B Lumenta, of Amroos & Partners in Jakarta, explains how improvements to the Trade Mark Law make it easier to protect rights in Indonesia

At the conclusion of the Trilateral Technical Meeting Study, held in Tokyo in June, the Trilateral Offices ? the JPO, USPTO and EPO ? issued a Report on a Comparative Study Carried Out under Trilateral Project B3b with a "Consensus Summary ? Confirmed Current Practices on Business Method Related Inventions". The consensus on computer implemented business methods is:

Since the middle of the 18th century, tequila has been considered a traditional beverage in Mexico, first locally and afterwards obtaining the status of the representative beverage of our country, when in 1873 Cenobio Sauza began the exportation of the product to the United States.

On the eve of its implementation in the national judicial systems (July 31 2000), European Directive 98/44/EC of July 6 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions has led to heated discussions in the Netherlands. Earlier, on October 19 1998, the Dutch government had already requested the ECJ to declare the directive invalid, but no judgment has been rendered with respect to this request yet. Not until June this year rather late was the actual implementation of the directive finally discussed in the Dutch parliament. During these discussions, it turned out that a majority of parliament objected to the implementation of the directive, largely because the directive would give room for the patenting of living organisms. This would be contrary to fundamental ethical choices made in the Netherlands.

Ella Cheong & G Mirandah provide an overview of three important trade mark cases involving foreign owners during 1999

Europe´ s trade mark success story

With the creation of an Intellectual Property Prosecution Office, as well as the substitution of the inquisitive criminal system, (in substitution of the accusatory system), Venezuela's judicial branch has expanded its range in protecting patentees from patent infringement.

Christian Harmsen, of Wessing & Berenberg-Gossler examines what impact the Yplon case will have on trade mark protection in Germany

The trend towards granting e-commerce patents is spreading around the world. Barry Eagar assesses the situation in Australia in the light of the State Street decision in the United States

A federal judge has ruled that Mylan Laboratories must be allowed to sell its generic copy of Bristol-Myers Squibb's highly profitable drug BuSpar.