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The 30 countries profiled in MIP’s Emerging Markets Survey will be among the big markets of tomorrow. Which makes it vital to know where to find the top firms. On the following pages, we reveal the results of our fourth annual survey, and analyze the latest trends

The BSA is declaring a 30-day truce on UK companies using illegal software, from March 6 2000. The campaign is offering free use of an auditing tool which will check for unlicensed software on company systems.

After six years of deadlock, the US and the European Union have reached an understanding on the voting arrangement within the Assembly of the Madrid Union, paving the way for the US to join in 2001.

The new Trade Mark Law which came into force on July 23 1998 includes the provision to introduce oppositions within three months from the date of a trade mark´ s publication in the Official Bulletin.

Companies from Reebok to Pfizer have succeeded in enforcing their rights in Latin America over the past year. Emily Downes reports on the lawyers who go undercover to tackle the pirates

The International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition has submitted its recommendations to Charlene Barchefsky, the US trade representative, as part of the annual “Special 301” review of countries with poor IP protection.

A federal judge has blocked a Canadian-based web site from broadcasting US TV shows. The case is the first test of how effectively copyright law can be applied to Internet transmissions.

Counterfeiting costs business more than $1bn a year in Russia, according to the Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights.

The European Patent Office has admitted that a patent for altering cells and human embryos was granted to Edinburgh University “by mistake”.

To strengthen IP rights enforcement in Singapore, new border enforcement measures were introduced in the Copyright Act and the recent Trade Marks Act 1998 to prevent infringing goods from entering Singapore. The border enforcement measures under the Trade Marks Act 1998 in particular took effect on January 15 1999 and enable a trade mark owner suspicious of any incoming shipment of infringing goods to enlist the assistance of the Customs and Excise Department. Subject to certain safeguards, the Department may seize these goods when they enter Singapore.