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The Licensing Executives Society International is where the world's largest licensing groups come together to meet and talk business. The Society's president, Mel Jager, tells Sam Mamudi about making the licensing world smaller

National IP offices will never be good enough in the eyes of their users. Rights applicants believe applications can always be dealt with quicker, cheaper and more efficiently. The commissioner of the Korean Intellectual Property Office tells Ralph Cunningham how his organization is addressing these issues

The counterfeit industry in Korea is proving hard to contain. Korean counterfeiters are producers and exporters of fake goods on a global scale. But now trade mark owners have organized themselves and are fighting back. Ralph Cunningham reports

Alvaro Cabeza and Paz Martín examine how the Spanish courts have tackled trade mark and copyright disputes involving the internet, and ask what lessons have been learned for rights owners

Seven years on from the opening of the Community Trade Marks Office, the European courts have clarified many of the controversial issues faced by applicants. Pen Hosford, of Marks & Clerk in London, examines the most important cases

Three international law firms have closed their Hong Kong IP groups already this year. But, despite fundamental changes in the IP market, the mood is not one of doom and gloom. Practitioners are still looking forward to the future with optimism. Ralph Cunningham reports

On May 22 2003 the Law On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Intellectual Property Protection was adopted. The new Law came into force on June 25 2003, and was passed to harmonize Ukrainian legislation with the provisions of the TRIPs Agreement. It covers a number of legislative innovations including the amendments introduced into special legislation, that is the Law On Protection of Rights in Trade Marks and Service Marks (the Trade Mark Law); the Law On Protection of Rights in Inventions and Utility Models; and others presented into the Codes of Civil and Commercial Procedure of Ukraine.

The exclusive rights of a trade mark proprietor and the interests of competitors and the general public in free trade require a compromise, so that in certain instances third party use of the trade mark cannot be prohibited. Such constellations are inter alia mentioned in Section 23 of the 1994 German Trade Mark Act, which permits the use of a third party's own name or address (number 1), the use of an indication concerning the characteristics or features of the goods or services (number 2) or where such use is necessary to indicate the intended purpose of a product, in particular as an accessory or spare part or a service, insofar as the use is necessary for it (number 3), provided the use is not contrary to the principles of morality.

Alain Coriat and Ricardo Fischer of Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque in Venezuela tackle the misconception that globalization and IP protection is detrimental to developing countries

The advent of computers and electronic communication has added a new dimension to preserving evidence, explains Glen P Belvis of Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione