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  • Bertelsmann, one of five companies suing Napster for copyright infringement, has offered to loan Napster the funds it needs to develop a secure file-sharing service.
  • Parallel importers, for so long the bugbear of companies operating within Europe, suffered a significant setback last month when a decision against the drugs company Bayer was overturned.
  • In the same month that Pfizer scientists from the company´ s laboratories in England received the French Prix Galien award for their discovery and development of Viagra, the drugs company has lost a crucial patent protecting the $332 million drug, clearing the way for rival treatments.
  • As though the questions of more top-level domains, country codes, the EU domain, cyberpiracy and squatting are not enough problems to deal with, WIPO is now facing a new challenge: what to do about international non-proprietary names (INNs).
  • Trade mark practitioners report record workloads, greater demands from clients and increased competition. James Nurton and Tabitha Parker investigate the latest trends in the second part of MIP’s fifth annual survey of the world’s leading IP firms
  • It is widely believed that change is as good as a rest. Certainly this seems to be the case in the Asia-Pacific, although unfortunately, little has changed and no one has had any rest. The internet dominated the Asian-Pacific scene in last year's survey and its impact is still reverberating through IP practices. If anything it is registering even higher on the Richter scale. Intellectual property lawyers have never been so busy.
  • On October 1 2000 two new Acts entered into force connected with industrial property rights. They concern biotechnological inventions and industrial designs. As both of them are important, the following is a brief summary of them.
  • In Sime Darby Edible Products Ltd v Ngo Chew Hong Edible Oil Pte Ltd, a judgment was delivered by the High Court of Singapore on July 21 2000. The judgment sets out the approach taken by the local court in relation to the grounds on which a registered trade mark may be invalidated under Section 23 of the Trade Marks Act 1998 ("the Act" ).
  • The dispute over parallel imports of cigarettes bearing the trade mark BELMONT (Bigott v Philip Morris) has been developing over several years, under the industrial property laws of the Andean Community.
  • Rice celebrations boil over