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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's infamous Festo decision has led to countless debates as to how careful one should now be when amending the claims of US patent applications during prosecution before the USPTO. The US Supreme Court, in its judgment rendered in May 2002, has partially softened the harsh impact of the CAFC's original decision, which applied a file wrapper estoppel completely barring the use of the doctrine of equivalents in subsequent infringement proceedings as far as the amended portion of the claim was concerned.

In a surprise arbitration decision, Nike has lost its complaint over five domain names registered by a Korean company.

A controversial patent granted to Edinburgh University has been curtailed to exclude human or animal embryonic stem cells.

The UK Court of Appeal has cleared a rival of biotech heavyweight Amgen of patent infringement, in a decision viewed as restoring balance to the patent system.

Muhyiddin Yassin, Malaysia's Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, has denied that he said in a newspaper interview that the government was considering allowing some groups in Malaysian society to use pirated software.

James Nurton, London

New legislation passed by the US Senate for cheaper prescription drugs may not survive the House of Representatives intact.

The State Council respectively approved The Copyright Law Implementing Regulations and the Trade Mark Law Implementing Regulations on August 2 and 3 2002. Both will become effective on September 15 2002.

Taiwan's Executive Yuan, or Cabinet, is beginning to act on promises it made in April to help the copyright industries tackle infringement.

A survey of patent cases heard in the English High Court has indicated that only eight out of 23 reported cases last year were decided in favour of the patentee.