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? EU: A coalition of 48 lobby groups from around the world has urged the European Parliament to reject the draft of an anti-piracy law that they say is too broad and threatens consumer rights and innovation across the EU.

One of the most elusive questions in copyright litigation faced by courts the world over has been how to map out the horizons of the idea/expression dichotomy. In 1978, the Supreme Court of India in the RG Anand case held that one of the surest and safest tests to determine whether or not there has been a copyright infringement is to see if the reader after having read both the works gets an unmistakable impression that the subsequent work appears to be a copy of the original.

Since July 1 2003, the European Patent Office has started a new pilot project which may be of interest to a large number of applicants.

Delegates at the 10th annual BIO conference heard a lawmaker unveil his plan to cut fee diversions from the PTO, while President Bush revealed his feelings on the biotech industry. Sam Mamudi reports from Washington DC

A recent decision of the Hamburg District Court may end the controversial practice of taking patent cases to courts in EU countries with slow procedures. Reinhardt Schuster and Clemens Rübel explain

A recent newspaper survey showed that Japanese IP owners face their biggest infringement problems in China. An integrated enforcement strategy can help to protect their rights, argue Andrew Cobden, Lloyd Parker and Takamasa Makita

Sam Mamudi, New York

In March, a Chinese arbitration body rejected Google's claim to have google.com.cn transferred to it from a local company. The panel of arbitrators failed to take into account issues such as the international conventions China is party to before coming to their verdict, argue Jerry Y Zhang and Xu Chang Rong

Work on the draft of an act about the next amendment of the Law on Industrial Property of June 30 2000, conducted by a legal committee of the Polish government with the participation of the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland, has finally been completed. The Committee of the Board of Ministers has also completed the examination of the draft of the amendment act. Soon the Polish Parliament (the lower chamber) will work on it.

A dispute between GlaxoSmithKline and Dutch company Class gives rise to important questions regarding the parallel import of original branded goods from outside the EEA within the European Union. In this case, a bulk of Aquafresh toothpaste was transported from South Africa to Rotterdam. The transportation took place by vessel at the request of Class. However the trade mark owner of the goods, GlaxoSmithKline, had not given permission for its import into the EEA and requested the Customs Department to seize the goods under Article 13bis of the Uniform Benelux Trade Mark Act.