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  • China: The Trade Mark Office released a draft version of its revised trade mark examination guidelines for consultation. The previous guidelines, drawn up in 1994, had never been made public. The final version must be approved by the State Council, but could be in force by the end of the year.
  • 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
  • More and more US patent applicants are assertively exercising their provisional rights against their rivals, both in the US and abroad, by offering a licence to their invention before a patent has issued. Brett Alten, James Hough and Charles Holland explain the policies companies should put in place to respond to the threat
  • As Iraq continues to grapple with the difficult task of rebuilding amid a declining security situation, a reconstruction of a different kind has taken place in the IP field. Stéphanie Bodoni explores the struggle to provide patent and trade mark protection
  • US litigation is expensive and time-consuming, while USPTO reexamination provides limited involvement and grounds of attack for challengers. John Isacson explores proposed new legislation that promises to offer greater opportunities to patent challengers in the USPTO
  • Stéphanie Bodoni, London
  • Emma Barraclough, Hong Kong
  • National laws on patent construction may not be harmonized but a series of recent cases in Europe and the US point towards a seemingly comparable approach taken by the courts. Ian Karet and Nigel Jones of Linklaters provide more insight in an in-depth review of some of the most relevant cases
  • Brands have become some of companies' most valuable assets. With increasingly more companies waking up to that fact, the pressure is on trade mark advisers to find the best protection and enforcement strategies. Darren Olivier and John Olsen of Field Fisher Waterhouse explain
  • The EU has spoken: the directive for the patenting of computer-implemented inventions is dead. But that does not mean the end for software-related patents, as long as patent attorneys consider all possible drawbacks when drafting applications, say Maarten Ketelaars and Harry de Hoog of Nederlandsch Octrooibureau