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Although the Copyright Directive has come into force, it is only the first step in achieving harmonized copyright protection in the digital age, explains Anna Duffus

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.

Office issues clarification

Worldwide forum on trade mark protection, Geneva, Switzerland, December 1-2. Details at www.inta.org

Pre-trial injunctions offer an alternative to administrative actions and the Civil Procedure Law in IP litigation in China. To benefit properly from them, however, you should follow procedures carefully, warns Matthew Murphy

Asia-Pacific governments have formally committed themselves to the effective regulation of optical disc production in a bid to minimize piracy.

For the very first time, a Spanish court has entered a decision ordering the provisional shutdown of the website for using the so-called people-to-people (P2P) file-exchange network.

The full, unedited, interview with Marshall Phelps, covering his role at IBM, software patenting and many other topics.

Two trade mark registrations belonging to a renowned designer goods company were recently revoked in the Singapore High Court.

Applicants not familiar with all the particularities of the European patent system are often surprised by the repeated requests of their European representatives to indicate support for the wording of every new or amended claim to be submitted to the European Patent Office (EPO). At the same time, strong feelings often overwhelm European patent attorneys when, during examination, they receive a pile of brand new claims from overseas colleagues with the cheerful remark that the claims have already been issued by their national patent office in a parallel application, together with instructions to file those claims at the EPO. This mutual "misunderstanding" has its roots in the provisions of the notorious Article 123 of the European Patent Convention (EPC), whose second paragraph requires that the subject matter is supported by the content of the original application, whereas the third paragraph prohibits the scope of protection of an issued patent being extended during opposition proceedings.