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  • The dispute surrounding geographical indications and their co-existence with trade marks created a deadlock in international trade negotiations in 2003. But discussions are now in full swing with two recent WTO decisions, an ECJ opinion and the upcoming WTO summit in Hong Kong. Stéphanie Bodoni reports
  • José Graca-Aranha of WIPO discusses Mexico and the rest of Latin America's developing attitude towards joining the Madrid Protocol
  • A monthly column devoted to the curiosities and controversies of the IP world
  • Intellectual property valuation has novelty value among IP professionals not used to the mainstream importance of intangible assets. But as Gustavo A Alcocer and Carlos Woodworth of Olivares & Cia argue, valuing your IP is essential if you plan to use your assets in a productive fashion
  • Technology transfer and licensing deals are governed by a series of national laws that foreign companies need to understand before doing business in Mexico. Jose Antonio Romero and Héctor Chagoya of Becerril Coca & Becerril outline the country's licensing regime
  • Roberto Arochi of Arochi, Marroquín & Lindner runs through trade mark owners' options when protecting their marks in Mexico, including administrative infringement, declarations and court enforcement
  • For the past 12 years, IBM has received more US patents than any other company. But now it says that it is changing the way it handles its IP, opening up large parts of its portfolio – and warns that its rivals will have to adapt or die. Sam Mamudi investigates
  • A recent amendment to Mexico's IP law has made it easier to get a trade mark recognized as well-known or famous. But problems remain, explain Jorge Molet and Leonardo Taro Seo of Bufete Soní
  • Brussels: The European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee, which advises on all IP-related matters, has agreed that the EU's draft directive on the patenting of computer-implemented inventions had shortcomings that would lead to pure software patenting. The decision follows the Committee's meeting with IP lawyers who expressed their views on the directive during a public hearing on May 23.
  • The 69-year-old firm Burns Doane Swecker & Mathis has become the latest in a long line of IP boutiques to exit the US market, after it was acquired by Buchanan Ingersoll at the end of May.