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When two patent owners come to blows, it is often impossible to respect national boundaries.

BT is to launch a major licensing push in the US and Canada to exploit value from its 14,000 patents. James Nurton visits the telecoms company’s global research headquarters near Ipswich, England to find out how

Survival and success for biotech companies across the US and worldwide is a tenuous and arduous endeavor in today's economy. Robin Silva offers some tips on how to ride the wave successfully

The popularity of pre-1972 music on internet radio has thrown up a fierce legal battle over sound recording licences in the United States. Peter E Masaitis and Evan W Woolley explain – with a bit of help from their friends in the 60s and 70s music scene

A shift of burden of proof from plaintiffs to defendants will encourage more businesses to take trade secrets to court, say in-house counsel

A district court ruling has upheld the business model of online music lockers, but left some questions unresolved. The Southern District of New York partially granted the parties' motions for summary judgment in Capitol Records v MP3tunes. The suit was filed in 2007 by EMI and 14 record companies and music publishers, alleging that online music locker MP3tunes infringed their copyrights. In the opinion, Judge William Pauley ruled that online music lockers are eligible under the safe harbours of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) if they adhere to copyright holders' takedown notices concerning specific infringement. While that ruling is good news for MP3tunes and services like it, Pauley also found MP3tunes liable for contributory infringement. MP3tunes operates a second website, www.sideload.com, a search engine that links to third party sites containing free song files. By removing only the Sideload.com links to EMI's works but not the actual content from users' lockers, MP3tunes was found to have contributorily infringed the copyrighted works. MP3tunes founder Michael Robertson was also found to have directly infringed works by downloading songs to his personal storage locker that were identified by EMI as unauthorised.

Japanese expats hoping to get a regular dose of domestic TV through the internet have been frustrated by two Supreme Court rulings finding that their providers are infringing copyright law

Although brand associations across Europe have broadly welcomed the Max Planck Trade Mark Study, there are serious concerns over the coexistence of similar marks

Case of the Year: Neurim v UK government

Case of the Year: CIPA v UK government