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Saul Santoyo of Uhthoff, Gomez Vega & Uhthoff SC looks at the latest legislative initiatives to deal with counterfeit drugs in Mexico, and how they will benefit producers and consumers

Asia's courts are increasingly able to handle sophisticated IP cases and patent holders should no longer assume that civil litigation is not an option for solving IP disputes, says Nick Redfearn of the Rouse & Co International Group

Enforcement of IP rights is normally based on traditional measures in Mexico. But, argue Jesus Molina and Sergio De Alva of Molina Salgado & De Alva, there is another powerful weapon available to IP owners

A new law in Mexico City regulates the protection of personality rights. Luis C Schmidt and Abraham Díaz of Olivares & Cia examine the scope of these new rights and explain that some aspects of protection still need to be elaborated

Arturo D Reyes of Goodrich Riquelme argues that enforcement of data exclusivity protection is possible in spite of the lack of precedent from the courts and limited provisions regarding its scope of protection in Mexico

Emma Barraclough, London

Emma Barraclough, London

Tom Thomson, executive director, Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights

Individuals interested in creating an online forum to voice criticism about a particular company's product or service offering often register domain names which incorporate a company's trade mark to be used as so-called gripe sites. These individuals typically claim that their use of a third party's trade mark as part of a domain name constitutes a fair use of that trade mark, thereby creating a legitimate non-commercial interest for the domain name registrant in owning the domain name at issue.

Up until recently, in the UAE, an agency agreement had to be registered at the Commercial Agencies Register at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to be enforceable. This had created a lot of difficulties in the past for foreign companies in terminating agreements where the local agent was not performing under the agreement, as the commercial agency law provided substantial protection to the commercial agents, especially in the context of termination. For example, if the principal terminated an unlimited term commercial agency without cause, the principal was obliged to compensate the agent.