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As patents become a cornerstone of world business, systems are under strain and attorneys are facing unprecedented challenges. How will the world cope? James Nurton and Tabitha Parker report

Five years ago the European Commission told collecting societies that some of their practices breached EU competition laws. Now the General Court of the Court of Justice has ruled that it got part of that decision wrong

With the prospect of ICANN opening the domain space to an untold number of generic top-level domain names, brand owners and representatives of WIPO and ICANN sat down with Eileen McDermott to discuss some of their key concerns in a roundtable sponsored by Finnegan

With the prospect of ICANN opening the domain space to an untold number of generic top-level domain names, brand owners and representatives of WIPO and ICANN sat down with Eileen McDermott to discuss some of their key concerns in a roundtable sponsored by Finnegan

Patent and trade mark attorneys have welcomed the European Commission's plans for unitary IP rights after Brexit

IP protection in China remains a controversial and politicised issue. Mark Cohen looks back at his four years working as IP attaché at the US Embassy in Beijing

Haydn Evans and Matthew Luby explain the importance of detailed patent search and analytics in determining IP and broader business strategies

Elžbieta Bienkowska, formerly deputy prime minister of Poland, is to be the new EU Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SME Commissioner. Her portfolio covers most of the work previously handled by the Enterprise and Industry and Internal Market and Services commissioners. Notably, she will take over most IP matters from former Commissioner Michel Barnier of France, including oversight of OHIM and responsibility for the proposed trade mark reforms and the work on the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court. However, copyright work will fall under Commissioner Günther Oettinger of Germany, who is in charge of Communications Networks, Content and Technology.

Intellectual Ventures II has sued Canon for infringing digital imaging patents, the first lawsuits from the fund since it sued two insurers in January

Speaking at the JPO Users’ Meeting, Kazuhiro Kimura gave an update on application figures and how the Office is improving its service