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Fees for filing Community trade marks are to be reduced for the second time in two years – but they will not be subject to a regular automatic review, as proposed by the European Commission

It has long been accepted that the UK does not acknowledge image rights as a distinct legal concept. In the first half of a two-part article, Isabel Davies and Tom Scourfield look at the face of image rights in the UK following a recent House of Lords judgment

Navigating your way around the maze of national domain name dispute resolution procedures can be tricky. But it is essential if you want to take on the cybersquatters - and win. Emma Barraclough introduces a survey of eight Asian jurisdictions which considers what rights owners need to know to reclaim their rights

US beer maker Anheuser-Busch has won a victory over nine so-called shadow companies in Hong Kong using an approach other companies may now consider replicating

The USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences should rely on evidence submitted by parties rather than its own expertise in judging who is the rightful owner of a patent

The manager of a shopping complex in Sarawak has been charged with allowing a tenant to sell pirated CDs in what is believed to be the first criminal landlord liability case in Malaysia

In a case between Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) and Philips, the Supreme Administrative Court of Taiwan made a final ruling on April 4 2007. The Court held that a patent pool that included patents owned by Philips, Sony and Taiyo Yuden which were licensed in a package to Taiwan's CD-R manufacturers was not a concerted action. It upheld the ruling of the Taipei High Administrative Court to revoke the decision of the FTC and said that the term "concerted action" used in Article 14 of the Fair Trade Act refers to the action of enterprises with a competitive relationship. Such competitive relationship will be deemed to exist where the goods or services provided by the enterprises are substitutable by each other's goods or services. Since the CD-R manufacturers must use the orange book-compliant techniques covered by the patents owned by Philips, Sony and Taiyo Yuden in combination in order to produce CD-Rs, and since CD-Rs cannot be produced using any one of the patents alone, the Court held that the patents owned by Philips, Sony and Taiyo Yuden are complementary to each other rather than substitutable for each other. As such, there is no competitive relationship among them.

In April 2007, the National Working Group for IPR Protection launched the Action Plan on IPR Protection 2007 to outline the substantive IP measures that China will take in 2007.

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