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  • Pirates and counterfeiters are not always hardened criminals. MIP profiles some of the common, and less common, people involved in IP crime and asks: what makes them difficult to attack and what is the best approach to stopping them?
  • Singapore courts tend to adopt a strict approach to the exclusion of added subject matter when amending a patent or patent application. Hence, does a disclaimer, introduced into a patent claim in order to restore novelty over the prior art by excluding from its scope one or more particular examples in the prior art, constitute unallowable added subject matter under Singapore law if such a disclaimer has no basis in the application as originally filed?
  • At the second annual IPTEC meeting, held last month, technology licensors and licensees got together to share experiences and discuss business opportunities. James Nurton reports from Cannes, France
  • More and more companies are setting up R&D centres in China. But they need to have a clear patenting strategy if they want to transfer the resulting technology abroad, explains Junfeng Tian of China Sinda
  • Joseph Bach of Sughrue Mion explains why it is vital for companies to protect their design rights in China
  • Hong Kong used to be a counterfeit buyer's paradise. But over the past 10 years Customs officials have upped their efforts to drive the sellers from the streets and smash the syndicates that control the trade. Peter Ollier followed a team of officers over three days to find out how successful they have been
  • Article 3 of the Swedish Patents Act states that no one other than the patent holder or the patent holder's licensee is entitled inter alia to manufacture, offer, launch on the market or use a product which is protected by a patent. A recent judgment addressed the question of what constitutes an offer and when such an offer contravenes the terms of article 3 of the Patents Act as far as pharmaceutical preparations are concerned.
  • Life is an attractive word. Who does not know the glossy US magazine? It enjoys a worldwide popularity, partly thanks to the choice of title.
  • Record numbers of trade mark and patent applications were filed in China in 2006, reflecting the growing awareness of IP in the country. But the growth is also putting increasing pressure on the agencies that administer IP rights, say Xuemin Chen and Xiaoguang Yang of Zhongzi Law Office
  • Chinese and foreign companies are filing patent applications at the State Intellectual Property Office at a phenomenal rate. At the same time, a small but growing number of Chinese applicants are trying to protect their IP rights overseas. Emma Barraclough and Peter Ollier consider the trends behind the statistics