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Harold Wegner, partner of Foley & Lardner LLP

On July 13 2005, the English Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in the British Horseracing Board (BHB) v William Hill case. The decision ended a dispute that started in the High Court about five years ago and has involved two trips to the Court of Appeal and one to the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

Singapore residents must file their patent application in Singapore first or obtain permission from the Registrar of Patents if they want to file a foreign patent application first. This provision, outlined in section 34 of the Singapore Patents Act 1994, does not apply to patent applications first filed outside Singapore by a person resident outside Singapore.

Former US presidential candidate Ross Perot has backed what is said to be the first investment fund to focus exclusively on companies with valuable intellectual property assets.

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Emma Barraclough, Hong Kong

A recent US court ruling has given the green light to all kinds of pop-up advertising. But, says Jonathan Moskin, by turning to the fair use doctrine, the court could have blocked infringing cases while leaving most such ads free to pester internet users

In an important pro-patentee decision handed down in June, Japan's Supreme Court affirmed a patent holder's right to seek an injunction against an infringer, even if the patentee has granted an exclusive licence over the invention. John Tessensohn and Shusaku Yamamoto explain what the ruling means in practice

Applicants interested in protecting business methods and software-related inventions in Mexico are not completely prevented from protecting these types of inventions if certain considerations are taken into account. Although Article 19, Section III of the Law of Industrial Property expressly deems business methods per se and software per se to be unpatentable, an applicant can rest assured that the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) has been allowing and issuing business methods and software-related patents.

NIC-Argentina (www.nic.ar) has implemented new rules governing the .ar country code top-level domain (cc-TLD) domain names. NIC has put into force Article 5 of the domain name regulation, which was put on hold at the time the rules were enacted in 2000. Article 5 sets out that domain name registrations shall be valid for one-year terms, counted from registration date, and may be renewed indefinitely. Renewal applications will be received in the last month that the registration is in force, and domain names that are not renewed shall be eliminated from the Registry automatically.