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  • As reported in the this section in September 2009, the procedural peculiarities of divisional applications have kept the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) busy for a while. On September 27 2010, the EBA delivered its decision in case G 1/09, in which the EBA was to consider at which point in time the "pending" status of a European patent application ends, ie when the applicant's deadline for filing a divisional expires if the parent application is refused.
  • The big player – ZTE Sean Ke, IP director
  • The .be extension has over a million registrations. This is equivalent to 1 .be for every 10 inhabitants. It is largely used by Belgians, so do not underestimate your potential Benelux clients. More than 80% of .be domain names are used for a website.
  • Tian Lipu, Commissioner of China’s State Intellectual Property Office, sets out his vision for innovation in China and for the development of the international IP system
  • The Australian Patent Office has, by its own initiative, issued a new examination directive which attempts to adopt a more European approach to obviousness. The amended test for obviousness, to apply from August 1 at the Office is "Would the person skilled in the art (in all the circumstances) directly be led as a matter of course to try the claimed invention in the expectation that it might well produce a solution to the problem?"
  • A new US law has paved the way for biosimilar drugs. Janice A Vatland, Michael T Siekman and Chelsea A Loughran explain what pioneer and biosimilar manufacturers need to know
  • Trade mark owners and advertisers have been busy getting to grips with a series of changes that Google has made to its AdWords programme over the past year. Now it has introduced a predictive search function. How will brand owners be affected? Stephen Stolfi explains
  • Practice on the use of parody as a defence against trade mark infringement varies around the world, from the importance of the effect of the parody to the role of commercial interests. Here is a guide to seven jurisdictions
  • IP practitioners have until March 1 to submit evidence to the UK's latest IP review
  • James Nurton, Paris