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The award of the Olympic Games 2012 to London was applauded, especially by sports fans in the UK. But will advertisers be as pleased with the government's proposals to prevent ambush marketing? Pauline Dore investigates

1. D. The new IP High Court replaced the IP division of the Tokyo High Court in April, and handed down its first ruling on September 30.

US: The control of the international domain name system will remain in the hands of ICANN, a summit of world leaders decided on November 15. Delegates from more than 100 countries meeting at the World Summit on the Information Society also agreed to set up an Internet Governance Forum, which would be run by international governments, NGOs and businesses, to raise internet management issues.

Despite worries among the internet community, .eu launched smoothly on December 7. But, as James Nurton reports, the real test of the new domain is still to come

The success of technology transfer for universities in the US has prompted other governments to introduce or reform their laws governing licensing, as James Nurton and Emma Barraclough explain

Registrations of the new .eu domain names started on December 7 2005. To protect the interests of brand owners and companies there is a sunrise period in which they will be allowed to apply for .eu domain names corresponding to their trade marks and company names. The general public will have to wait until 7 April 2006 before they can make applications. It is hoped that this head start will help to prevent a flood of abusive registrations by cybersquatters, but brand owners and companies must act quickly to take full advantage of it.

Sam Mamudi, New York

Patented drugs are expensive and are out of the reach of the majority of citizens in the developing world. As a result, activist groups and non-governmental organizations continually put pressure on governments to ensure that poor people are able to access drugs at prices they can afford.

Infringement of world famous geographical indications (GIs) is becoming increasingly common in Asia, including in India. Shoppers are able to find a number of goods bearing fake GIs in India. However, very few owners of high-value GIs have sought to register their GIs in India. Therefore, it is time for the world to know that an effective GI registration system exists in India and that IP owners can enforce GIs effectively by launching lawsuits.

The British Horseracing Board (BHB) has received a welcome endorsement of its overseas data supply contracts in recent proceedings taken against it by Irish bookmakers. The proceedings went to trial in the second week of November in the Irish Commercial Court before Justice Kelly. The group of independent Irish bookmakers representing 357 bookmaking shops were seeking repayment of about €20m that had been paid by them under a contract for the supply of elements of the BHB's pre race data. A settlement was reached on day two of the trial that involved the repayment claim being dropped in its entirety, and an affirmation by the bookmakers of the contracts under which the data had been supplied to them since 2002.