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Established ideas about IP protection do not find room for traditional knowledge. Now some communities are agitating to protect their culture. Ingrid Hering reports

Following the signing of a trade agreement with the EU, Mexico has become one of the most open economies in the world. Luis C Schmidt explains how the country has updated its IP protection to meet the challenge

Intellectual property has jumped from the technology page to the front page, as big stories have captured the public imagination throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Ralph Cunningham reports from Hong Kong

The economic downturn has affected all US and Canadian attorneys in the past year. But patents remain as popular as ever, leading to the prospect of increasing litigation in the future. Ingrid Hering examines how attorneys and courts are coping with the new challenges

The president of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market, Wubbo de Boer, revealed on September 21 that the Community Trade Mark will suffer its first decline in applications since it opened in 1996.

A new law is to be introduced in the UK for registered designs applied for after October 28 2001. The Registered Designs Regulations 2001 (RDR), currently before parliament, amend the Registered Designs Act 1949 (RDA) in order to give effect to EC Directive 98/71 on the legal protection of designs. The aim of this Directive is to harmonize certain aspects of national registered design law within the European community. The United Kingdom and all other European member states are required to bring their national laws into line with the Directive by October 28 2001.

Simmons & Simmons and TMI Associates, which was formed from the IP group of Nishimura & Partners in 1990, have formed a qualified joint venture (tokutei kyodo jigyo tai) with effect from September 12. Intellectual property will be one of the joint venture's six core practice groups along with corporate, M&A, finance, commercial and anti-trust law. Simmons & Simmons claims the alliance is the first joint venture between a major Japanese firm and a UK-based international law firm.

Pravin Anand, of Anand and Anand in Delhi, examines the latest trends in litigation in India and suggest some remedies for the current problems

Ralph Cunningham, Hong Kong

The perception exists in Australia that it is too easy to successfully defend a design infringement action. But Wayne Condon says that will change if Parliament passes radical reforms to the almost 100-year-old designs legislation