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I've been working as an advertising industry lawyer in many countries around the world for about 15 years now. I must have seen every possible approach from the creative team to try to deliver on the music that a particular client will want for a TV commercial. So far as the Middle East is concerned, I'm afraid I'd say that we have a worse attitude to copyright clearance than I've seen in any other region.

New rules on criminal thresholds should make it easier for prosecutors to bring charges against IP infringers. But as the authorities struggle to manage a mounting workload, IP owners should consider taking the law into their own hands and launching private criminal prosecutions, explains Gordon Gao

The past year has seen important changes in the EU. It grew from 15 member states to 25 and, for the pharmaceutical industry, many new laws entered into force, were enacted, or were proposed. Linda Horton reviews the developments

Japanese businesses are increasingly turning to litigation to resolve their IP disputes. Lloyd Parker, Andrew Cobden and Yukihiro Otani spoke to Japanese managers to find out what lies behind the trend

On March 1 2005, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) issued an interpretation on its Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the Interpretation) to clarify three definitions. The Interpretation took immediate effect.

In order to promote pharmaceutical research within the European Community and to keep the pharmaceutical industry from relocating to countries which offer better protection, EC Regulation Number 1768/92 for supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) was created. SPCs in the Netherlands are also governed by Regulation Number 1768/92. This is a clear and simple regulation which was meant to extend the life of a patent as far as it covered a medicinal product which had received regulatory approval and which should have led to harmonized SPC legislation in the European Community.

When providing much-needed clarification on the patentability of biotechnological inventions, the Mexican Patent Office considered how other countries had dealt with the issue. By Horacio Rangel-Ortiz of Uhthoff Gomez Vega & Uhthoff

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

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

Intellectual property owners have teamed up in Thailand to formally launch an association to help combat IP infringement.