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Grant Shoebridge and Jacinta Flattery-O’Brien of Shelston IP review the issues raised by a parliamentary inquiry into gene patents

Companies in the life science sector are increasingly turning to licensing to boost their revenue streams. Richard Gering provides a guide to the deal structures they can use

The European Patent Office has introduced rule changes to speed up patent examination. Camilla Lidén, Ellen Setréus and Ylva Skoglösa of Valea explain the possible implications for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies

Isabel Boardman of Soerensen Garcia Advogados advises IP owners to interact with the Customs office in their country in order to curb anti-counterfeiting

The US government has become the first patent owner to license its rights to HIV/AIDS drugs to UNITAID in a boost to the organisation’s medicines patent pool

This year sees some new names presiding over European IP policy and practice. On July 1 France's Benoît Battistelli took over as president of the European Patent Office and, as Managing IP's Europe IP Focus was going to press, Portugal's Antonio Campinos was preparing to take over as head of the European trade mark office OHIM. You can read more about both men, and the challenges they face in their new roles, in the editorial introduction to the 2010 edition of the Europe IP Focus. This features those Europeans we included in our latest annual list of the 50 most influential people in IP. They are an eclectic bunch: In addition to Battistelli and Campinos we have judges, in-house lawyers, administrators, activists, academics and business leaders. Find out how they are influencing IP over the next seven pages.

At the September IPO Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Chief Judge Randall Rader of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit told the story of his court’s creation. He sat down with Eileen McDermott there to talk about why that story is important, what advice he has for other similar courts and why he said the Supreme Court is not doing enough these days

Miriam Stiel and Katherine McMahon of Allens Arthur Robinson look at two recent decisions that have called into question the scope of copyright protection

Derk Vos of Maiwald reviews EPO case law on the allowability of disclaiming embodiments from a patent application

Michael Williams and Claire Bothwell of Gilbert + Tobin look at whether the law of confidentiality could help IP owners protect their databases