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One of the world's most valuable domain names has just got more expensive ? $65 million more. On April 3, a Californian court awarded $65 million to Gary Kremen, who originally registered the sex.com domain name in 1994.

Jane Mutimear, Bird & Bird, London, Vice president of the Intellectual Property Constituency of ICANN

A decision of special interest to the biotechnology community, Hitzeman v Rutter, 58 USPQ 2d 1161 (Fed Cir 2001), was delivered by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC or Federal Circuit) on March 21. The case arose as an appeal from the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Appeals and Interferences and it involved a determination of who is entitled to receive a US patent covering the particulate hepatitis B surface antigen produced in yeast cells, which is an effective human vaccine against hepatitis B. Prior to this invention, it was doubted by informed scientists that satisfactory hepatitis B surface antigen for vaccine purposes could be achieved using recombinant yeast cells as host cells, since bacterial host cells transformed with DNA encoding the hepatitis B surface antigen had been shown to produce a non-particulate antigen having no capability to impart immunity to hepatitis B in humans.

Schering-Plough and two generic manufacturers have been charged by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with conspiring to keep a generic version of the drug K-Dur 20 off the market. The FTC charged Schering with paying Upsher-Smith Labs and ESI Lederle to keep the drug off the market in an effort to maintain a monopoly on its manufacture, which is costing consumers $100 million per year.

Three years after the European Database Directive came into force, protection is being tested in the courts. Georgie Taylor examines the lessons from recent cases

Fittingly, I am writing this column on April 26 ? the first World Intellectual Property Day. Today, which will become an annual celebration, is the date when the Convention establishing WIPO entered into force in 1970.

To a packed courtroom on Thursday April 19, 39 drug companies agreed to drop their lawsuit against the South African government.

The Supreme Court in New Delhi has laid down guidelines to avoid the registration of deceptively similar trade marks. Saying there should be the maximum possible number of indicators to distinguish two medicinal products, the Court has drawn up a broad seven-point set of rules on the registration of trade marks for medicines.

It was the year of the dot-com bubble, and IP owners like everyone else were obsessed with the net. James Nurton and Tabitha Parker analyze some of 2000’s most interesting cases

A new set of amendments to the Patent Law of the People’s Republic of China will enter into force in July 2001. Elizabeth Chien-Hale examines the revisions to the compulsory licensing provisions