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The High Court has recently attempted to clarify the extremely complicated area of law in Australia dealing with the overlap between the Copyright and Designs Acts.

The long-running saga of the Douglas and Zeta-Jones wedding and the two rival magazines is now finally over: the UK's highest court has ruled on the matter (Douglas and another and others v Hello! Limited and others [2007] UKHL 21) and there can be no further appeal.

An increasing number of examiners say the patent system faces collapse. Robert Budens, president of the Patent Office Professional Association, explains

Attorneys from Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo and Google tried to "diffuse some of the emotional issues" to do with internet advertising last month

Cambridge University Press has won two injunctions in New Delhi to stop the company's rights in its English language teaching material from being infringed

In Retail Systems Technology Limited v P J Mcguire, Darragh Mcguire and Kelly and Mcguire Limited [2007] IEHC13 2 February 2007, the Irish High Court reconsidered the law in relation to the assessment of damages for copyright infringement and measured copyright damages by applying the same principles used for evaluating damages in patent infringement cases. This case concerned a claim by a technology company that its copyright in an electronic point of sale software product had been infringed by the defendants. Liability was conceded and the plaintiff elected an assessment of damages, which is governed by Section 128 of the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000.

The Malaysian IP scene received a boost when the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry unveiled plans to establish a specialized court exclusively for IP disputes. The motive was abundantly clear. There was a fundamental need for an avenue to concentrate on the escalating volume of IP issues, which were still pending at the Malaysian courts, resulting from a lack of expertise and complex procedures.

The Mexican Industrial Property Law (IPL) has a chapter dealing specifically with protecting distinctive signs, which establishes different legal structures for trade marks and slogans.

Turkish copyright law now almost complies with the WIPO internet treaties. Ugur Aktekin of Mehmet Gün & Partners outlines the changes the law has gone through

Interim injunctions are an effective way to protect IP rights in Turkey but they can be hard to get. By Okan Can of Deris Patents & Trademarks Agency A.S. and Deris Law Firm