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The INTA recognizes that trade mark owners require a truly global organization to represent them, and is taking steps to increase its international profile. Ingrid Hering speaks to Kathryn Barrett Park about the challenges ahead for the Association

Gitanjli Duggal and Sunita K Sreedharan of Anand and Anand in New Delhi provide an update on the latest patent and design developments in India’s legislature and courts

? China: On March 4, Chinese Customs had its biggest success ever in the campaign against pirated optical discs when it seized 4 million CDs from a fishing boat in Shenzhen, a city in the south of the country.

Ingrid Hering reports

Ingrid Hering in London

When do licensees have independent standing to sue for infringement in the US? Jasper W Dockrey and Jonathan M Blanchard review how the courts have treated this question and provide some guidelines for licensees and licensors

Filing trade marks in Moscow has become easier thanks to revised procedures at Rospatent. Riikka Palmos and Petja Papula of NEvinpat in Moscow say this change, combined with a pending amendment to the Trade Mark Law, will simplify life for overseas applicants

Cristina Popa, Sonia Larion and Lucian Enescu of Rominvent in Bucharest examine the Regulations for producing, testing and marketing genetically modified organisms, and the resulting products, in Romania

The late Jerome H Lemelson is well known to numerous manufacturers, not only in the United States but all around the world. During his lifetime, Lemelson, who was the extremely litigious inventor-owner of a large number of patents granted by the United States and many other countries, was also famous for his pursuit of what are known in the United States as submarine patents. The term submarine, which is not unique to Lemelson patents, is based upon the fact that US patents so termed have matured from divisional or continuation applications of parent, grandparent, or even more remote ancestor patent applications filed, in some cases, 20 to 30 years before issuance of the submarine descendant patent.

Reinhardt Schuster and Clemens Rübel of Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler Isenbruck in Munich review the scope of protection under the doctrine of equivalents as it applies to patent claims including numerical data in Germany