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

IP litigators and their clients are scrambling to revise enforcement strategies to keep up with new developments in the law, while keeping a close eye on the next few months, discuss Elliott S Simcoe and L Catherine Eckenswiller of Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh in Ottawa

Creating a robust climate for licensing is a significant challenge for an economy in transition. Antonina Pakharenko-Anderson explains how Ukraine is tackling the obstacles

Liberal legislation and a stable economic environment has fostered enthusiasm for licensing in Mexico, explains Jose Antonio Romero

An application for a business method patent is subject to the same requirements of novelty, inventiveness and industrial applicability as any other patent application in Korea. Careful drafting will secure your rights, explain Eun-Jin JUNG & Andrew CHOUNG, of Kim & Chang

Wubbo de Boer, OHIM president, spoke to MIP editor James Nurton about the challenges facing the Office as it deals with the new Community Design, the introduction of electronic filing and the expansion of the EU

Novel trade marks - such as smells, sounds, shapes and colours - are popular with brand owners, but have often proved controversial when tested in Europe's courts. MIP assembled five specialists from different backgrounds to discuss how companies use these types of marks and whether the registries and courts can meet their needs

The recent decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Board of Education ex rel Board of Trustees of Florida State University v American Bioscience Inc, 67 USPQ 2d 1252 (Fed Cir 2003) focuses on the importance under US law of correctly naming the true inventor (or inventors) on US patents. While the decision enunciates no new legal principles, its thorough discussion of the criteria for inventorship under US law merits attention. In particular, this discussion should be helpful in the US and elsewhere to institutions of higher learning in clarifying that the criteria generally used in naming authors on scientific papers are inapplicable to patent inventorship determinations. In addition, non-US companies and other groups applying for US patents will find that this discussion presents in one place a clear exposition of US inventorship criteria.

The obsolete Spanish regulation on industrial models and designs of 1929 has finally been reviewed and substituted by a new modern Design Law, adapted to EU Directive 98/71/EC.

Ralph Cunningham, Hong Kong