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The Act transposing the European Directive on the legal protection of designs (98/71/EC of October 13 1998) to national Spanish law entered into force on July 9 2003.

New Zealand's Supreme Court was established in 2003 and replaces the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as New Zealand's highest court. The Supreme Court recently heard its first intellectual property case – Peterson Portable Sawing Systems Ltd (in LIQ) & Anor v Lucas & Anor (SC, 30/8/2006; Elias CJ, Gault, Keith, Blanchard & Tipping JJ, SC 14/2005; [2006] NZ SC 20.

With the implementation of the European Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (2004/48/EC, April 29 2004), the enforcement landscape will become rather different.

Photos and reports from the INTA Annual Meeting held in Toronto, Canada last month.

Telecoms and electronics giants can throw their weight around in negotiations over patent cross-licences. And it is right that they should extract significant licence fees in respect of their relevant and valuable intellectual property. But, asks William Cook, is it credible to claim to have hundreds of patents that are "essential" to industry standards?

In its ruling in eBay v MercExchange, the US Supreme Court seems to have found a comfortable middle ground that keeps everyone happy. But, as James Nurton reports, some fear it will lead to inconsistency in the courts

Many high-tech companies are increasingly being hit by challenges from patent licensing companies - or patent trolls - that threaten to ruin their business. Bob Cote and Rodger Sadler provide six strategies to defend yourself

The town of Barcelona has won its challenge to the registration of Barcelona.eu as a domain name.

Internet: The latest top-level domain name, .mobi, launched on May 22 with a sunrise period for rights owners in the mobile telecoms industry. This will be followed by a sunrise period for IP rights owners, starting on June 12 and lasting until August 21. The .mobi registry is Mobile Top Level Domain Ltd in Dublin, Ireland, which was set up by companies including Ericsson, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung and Vodafone. Dot-mobi is the first TLD that will be tailored to mobile devices: owners of .mobi domain names have to comply with rules that make their content easily accessible on phones, personal digital assistants and other gadgets.

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