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Record numbers of Community trade marks (CTM) and registered Community designs (RCD) were filed in 2010, as the economy recovered from the downturn of the previous two years

This autumn several new agreements have been signed with the executive direction of the Italian Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) aimed at combating counterfeits in Italy.

Dr Meir Noam, the Israel Commissioner of Patent announced his retirement as of December 31 2010.

Prior art constitutes all information that has been disclosed to the public in any form before a given date, that might be relevant to a patent's claims of originality. It may include any patent related to the invention regardless of whether the patent is valid or not, as the act of publication or use of the patent would amount to a disclosure.

Leading patent firms ranked in Latin America, Canada and the United States - includes regional US rankings - based on six months of research by Managing IP researchers

How the survey is compiled, what the results show and how to read the tables - a guide to this year's survey

In 2008, the Federal Court for Tax and Administrative Affairs (FCTAA) created a Specialized IP Court to decide all the cases related to IP rights, which started work in January 2009.

Managing IP's 2011 patent survey is the first part of the most comprehensive annual study of the IP legal market. This section includes rankings of the leading firms in important emerging markets

Since the early 1990s many discussions have focused on the possibility of a national judge issuing injunctions for infringement in another country: cross-border injunctions. This practice, starting in The Netherlands, was effectively halted with the decisions GAT v LUK (C-4/03) and Primus v Roche (C-539/03) at the Court of Justice of the EU. However, in cases where validity of the patent is not the issue, the CJ recognised that cross-border injunctions were still possible (Duijnstee v Goderbauer (C-288/82)).

The Icann Board passed a resolution to pass the proposed final Applicant Guidebook “as close as practically possible” to its current form on January 25.