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The European Commission proposes to make radical changes to technology licensing within Europe. The proposed new Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (TTBER) is presented as a business-friendly liberalization of the European technology transfer regime. However, many commentators feel that these proposals will stifle technology transfer, considerably reduce the value of intellectual property rights, and may cause Europe to fall further behind the United States in the development of new technology industries.

The bankruptcy reform Organic Act 8/2003, published on July 9 this year, amended the Organic Act of the Judiciary and set up the commercial courts and the Community Trade Mark Court.

At its recent meeting, ICANN announced that it will push ahead with plans to increase the number of top-level domains. But trade mark owners are alarmed by the extra costs and opportunities for piracy that expansion will bring. Ingrid Hering reports

Since the 1990s, the Indian government's research branch has protected its most important advances with patents. Now the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research is moving on to exploiting those inventions through licensing. RA Mashelkar, CSIR’s director-general, spoke to Ralph Cunningham about the council's IP management strategy

There are two results of prosecuting trade mark applications in any part of the world: either you obtain a registration, or you do not. However, in Mexico there has not been a trade mark denial resulting from not overcoming citations or registrability objections for about 10 years.

The European Commission has proposed new rules on technology licensing with changes to the Block Exemption Regulation. James Nurton examines why many companies fear the new rules will stifle innovation

Many ccTLDs have now been opened up to international brand owners, but there is no uniformity in how disputes are handled. Lori Faye Fischler examines the rules, and how they are implemented, in the 10 most popular jurisdictions

Sam Mamudi, New York

Clive Coker, technology director, Inside UK Technology

Sam Mamudi, Washington DC and Ingrid Hering, London