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The patentability of animals remains a contentious issue throughout the world. Some of the biggest economies, with the notable exception of Canada, support the practice and now Singapore has come out on their side, explains Andrew Blattman of Ella Cheong, Mirandah & Sprusons in Singapore

In recent years courts in the US have extended trespass to chattels and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to online databases. Jonathan Band warns that this could threaten constitutionally imposed limits on the ownership of information

Sam Mamudi, New York

Michael Lantos and Imre Molnár, patent attorneys with Danubia in Budapest, analyze the changes introduced in Hungary by accession to the EPC, and discuss an important recent case on pharmaceutical patents

Korean courts have ruled against the introduction of specific pharmacological data after a patent application has been filed. But pharmaceutical companies have other ways of protecting their products in Korea, explains Jay Young-June Yang of Kim & Chang

Niall Tierney considers the impact of three recent rulings from the European Court of Justice on the registration of functional shapes and smells as trade marks

Companies are increasingly acknowledging domain names as an essential element of their IP portfolio. Jonathan Robinson looks at the threats to digital IP from cybersquatting, and offers some strategies for protecting against and recovering from damaging infringements

In the fourth part of the World IP Survey, we reveal the leading patent firms in 26 jurisdictions, and find out about the latest trends in practice.

The Law on Industrial Property of June 30 2000 regulates legal aspects of trade mark protection in Poland (the Official Gazette of 2001, No 49, item 508, including amendments). As regards penal regulations concerning trade mark protection, they are contained in Title 10 of the aforementioned Law. The above quoted Title 10 specifies the crimes that are committed most frequently in respect of industrial property. Article 310 of the Law on Industrial Property provides for the existence of a general rule that perpetrators who commit the crimes specified in the said Title 10 can be prosecuted only on condition that victims file the motions for prosecution.

Until recently, discovery was virtually unheard of in German litigation, but recent developments have opened possibilities. Reinhardt Schuster and Ikze Cho, attorneys-at-law with Bardehle Pagenberg in Düsseldorf and Munich, examine the latest trends