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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

Europe's fund of trade mark case law keeps on growing. Jeremy Phillips says that, while some interesting cases have been decided in the past year, there is much more excitement still to come

Antonina Pakharenko-Anderson of Pakharenko & Partners in Kiev examines how to enforce IP rights in Ukraine under the revised laws

Michiel Rijsdijk of Arnold + Siedsma in The Hague examines why the European Court of Justice decided not to annul the biotechnology directive

Tamás Bokor of SBG & K Patent Office in Budapest explains how the amended Hungarian Patent Act has affected the protection of service and employee’s inventions

New legislation, unveiled in Japan in the middle of February, will boost protection for Japanese owners of online IP rights, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Meti). The bill will clear up the position regarding the patentability of computer programs and trade marks displayed temporarily on computer screens, said a Meti official.