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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

The High Court clarified important lack of inventive step and obviousness issues in two patent infringement cases last year. But the prior art information that can be used is still not clear, argue David Webber and Victor Tse of Davies Collison Cave

Ralph Cunningham, Hong Kong

Trade mark owners could benefit from proposed changes contained in the Treaty of Nice that entered into force on February 1.

Too many uncertainties still exist about the patentability of certain biotech inventions in Vietnam to convince inventors that they can make money from their investment, argue Duong Tu Giang and Nguyen Nguyet Dzung of Pham & Associates