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  • Oscar M Becerril of Becerril, Coca & Becerril, SC explains that parties to technology licensing agreements in Mexico are generally free to act without government intervention. But, he adds, close attention should be paid to the anti-trust law, especially in agreements that do not include patents or copyright
  • The ECJ dealt a deadly blow to cross-border patent litigation in two long-awaited decisions handed down in July. But in his review of the state of multinational patent litigation in Europe in the wake of the rulings, Reinhardt Schuster concludes that forum shopping may not be so bad for litigants
  • The Japanese courts recently vetoed a drug company's efforts to stop generic rivals from selling their products in lookalike packaging. John Tessensohn and Shusaku Yamamoto explain what the trade dress decision means for the pharmaceutical industry in one of the world's most lucrative drugs markets
  • 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
  • When it comes to litigation, the Eastern District of Texas is met with open arms by plaintiffs and trepidation by defendants. While statistics reveal it favours plaintiffs, there are merits for both sides in bringing their cases to the country's latest rocket docket. By Shahnaz Mahmud
  • Prodrugs play an important role for the pharmaceutical industry, but patenting them in Mexico has proved difficult. Victor Garrido and Heriberto Lopez of Becerril, Coca & Becerril examine how it can be done
  • Mexican trade mark examiners have recently been over-strict in classification and in finding marks to be descriptive. Alonso Camargo and Guillermo Ballesteros of Olivares & Cia argue that their practice disadvantages applicants and should be changed
  • There are important changes to patent practice taking place in Argentina. Carlos María Gallo and Carlos Octavio Mitelman of Obligado & Cia examine the two issues of damages for infringement and the proposed amendments to the law to provide rights to patent applicants before their patents are granted
  • Throughout Latin America, more companies are investing in and developing IP rights. One that is leading the way is Brazil's leading cosmetics company, Natura. James Nurton spoke to the company's IP manager Renata Franco