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US government officials believe they have "worked very hard to shut down rogue websites" a year after they introduced an initiative to clamp down on IP theft. This was the message from Erik R Barnett, assistant deputy director at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), ahead of last month's anniversary of the Operation in Our Sites programme. The operation, which targets internet counterfeiting and piracy, was initiated on June 30 2010 by the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) – the arm of ICE that deals with IP theft.

Free access: The nominations for Managing IP’s North America Awards 2012 have been announced

The comment period for the latest draft of Icann's draft Applicant Guidebook for new generic top-level domains ended in May, one month after the draft was released. The 58 organisations to have sent in comments included INTA, MARQUES, WIPO, News Corporation, IBM, Time Warner and Microsoft.

As well as seeing their team win the tournament for the first time in 24 years, the organisers of the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand were successful in their battle against ambush marketing

Argentina TRADE MARK PROSECUTION Tier 1 G Breuer Marval, O'Farrell & Mairal Tier 2 De Las Carreras & Chaloupka Hausheer Belgrano & Fernandez Noetinger & Armando Obligado & Cía Richelet & Richelet Sena & Berton Moreno Tier 3 Bruchou, Fernandez Madero, Lombardi & Mitrani Ferrer Reyes, Tellechea & Bouche Pérez Alati, Grondona, Benites, Arntsen & Martinez de Hoz Jr Tier 4 Baker & McKenzie Barbat Clarke Modet Moeller & Co Palacio & Asociados

As Yakult finally won its battle to register a three-dimensional trade mark in Japan last month, Coca-Cola's trade mark in Australia for its bottle came into question. Both looked likely to narrow the scope of unconventional trade marks in Asia, rather than broadening it.

Yoghurt manufacturer Chobani will ask the UK Supreme Court to review this week’s Court of Appeal decision that it cannot call its product Greek yoghurt

British judges are known for their measured language. When a judgment includes a word written in all capitals, it could signal annoyance. When that word is also printed in bold type, it suggests something closer to frustration

Icann’s 41st public meeting will be one of the most important in its history as it prepares to finalise the gTLD application process and begin an unprecedented opening up of the domain name system

Malaysian law in relation to passing-off has been recently re-considered in extenso by the Court of Appeal in the case of Yong Sze Fun & Anor v Syarikat Zamani Hj Tamin Sdn Bhd & Anor [Civil Appeal No. W-02-367-2006].