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  • There is little consistency in the decisions of OHIM's Opposition Division, Boards of Appeal and the Court of First Instance regarding pharmaceutical trade marks. But, say Jean L Pire and Sandra R Paulsson, some guidance is now expected from the European Court of Justice
  • In Brussels, everyone is talking about SMEs. Anne Kristine Jensen, project manager for IP and competition at the Stockholm Network, reviews a recent workshop that addressed their needs and activities with regard to IP rights
  • MIP speaks to Charles Glasser, media counsel for Bloomberg News and editor of the International Libel & Privacy Handbook, about IP, the internet and cultural sensitivity
  • In the past few years, the abundance of technical information on the internet has allowed patent attorneys to become versed in technical fields that previously would have been inaccessible. Gwilym Roberts argues that this enables advisers to be more mobile in handling new areas and is also good news for innovators
  • Multinational enterprises often allocate the ownership of IP among their group companies with more regard to legal than to tax issues. Karen Hughes and Domenico Borzumato consider ways in which companies can manage their IP internationally so as to achieve greater tax efficiency
  • Asia's mix of mature markets and rapidly industrializing economies gives parallel traders plenty of scope to exploit price differentials across the region. Emma Barraclough introduces a survey of six Asian jurisdictions which considers what local rules on parallel trade mean for rights owners and importers
  • The EU Enforcement Directive has raised issues over IP enforcement across Europe, leading to delays in implementation in some member states. Gareth Morgan, Valerie Budd and Dietrich Kamlah compare the challenges the Directive poses in the UK, France and Germany
  • The UK's Patent Office is set to abandon examination on relative grounds. John Olsen and Marius Haman argue that this will have significant consequences for trade mark owners and applicants in the UK, Europe and beyond
  • The growth in interest in IP rights has been good for law firms and patent and trade mark agencies, many of whom are growing to serve the ever greater demands of clients. For the fourth year, MIP has compiled a list of the biggest
  • 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