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The Paris Court of Appeals has significantly reduced a fine handed out to eBay for allowing counterfeit LVMH goods to be sold on its website

YJ Trivedi and Tejas Trivedi of YJ Trivedi & Co consider enforcement strategy

Abhai Pandey and Swati Setia of LEXORBIS IP Practice provide an overview of recent IP developments

Vipul N Bhuta and Sudha Jha of Aditya & Associates discuss trends in opposition and recent developments in design registration

Nandita Saikia of Saikrishna and Associates considers the proposed copyright law reform

A monthly column devoted to IP curiosities and controversies, named in honour of John of Utynam – who received the world’s first recorded patent in 1449 diary@managingip.com

On June 30 2010, the Taiwan IP Court delivered a first instance ruling on a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Dr G F Neumark Rothschild (professor emeritus of Columbia University) against two Taiwanese LED suppliers. The lawsuit was dismissed on the grounds that the based-upon Taiwanese invention patent number 41070, entitled, Process for Doping Crystals of Wide Band Gap Semiconductors (corresponding to US patent 4,904,618), was anticipated by a paper published in the May 1969 issue of Physical Review by Crowder et al entitled, "EPR and Luminescence Studies of Er+3 in Acceptor-Doped ZnTe". On the basis of a number of prior art references submitted by the defendants, the court ruled that Rothschild's patent should be deemed invalid.

My CEO saw that Diageo has added whisky to its pension fund. He is keen to explore ways of plugging our own pension funding hole with non-traditional assets such as IP. What advice do you have?

During June this year, a delegation from Microsoft, Dell, Cisco, VeriSign and Symantec met with the Syrian president, Bashar Al Asad, as well as several ministers and business people. They also visited local universities. The purpose of the visit, according to the Wall Street Journal, was to woo Syria away from its strategic alliance with Iran by showcasing the benefits of US technology that would be available to Syria if US sanctions against it were lifted.

A majority of members of the European Parliament have signed a declaration opposing aspects of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement