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Scott Paintin is in charge of protecting intellectual property for Western Union, including the Washington D.C.-based Travelex Global Business Payments. James Nurton spoke to him.

Semiconductor companies have been the victim in several cases of trade secret theft in recent years. The introduction of criminal liability and wire tapping could help, though damages will remain low

The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office is considering adding criminal liability, along with other changes, to the Trade Secret Act

Weil Gotshal & Mangeshas added five partners from Dewey & LeBoeuf, including one intellectual property attorney.

Brand owners breathed a sigh of relief in April when the functionality aspects of Rosetta Stone’s case with Google were overturned. Eileen McDermott explains the full implications

A ruling by the New York Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has cast doubt on the way US internet companies rely on notice-and-takedown procedures.

Attendees at the Fordham IP Conference last month heard positive sounds from WIPO and saw trade mark examiners grilled. But Judge Denny Chin (right) wanted the audience to know two things: first, he is not an IP expert; second, he is not a China expert.

AOL's $1.06 billion patent deal with Microsoft comes as no surprise following recent similar blockbuster deals, but the announcement has led to speculation about Microsoft's plans for the patents, as well as who will be next. The deal, announced last month, will hand over more than 800 AOL patents to Microsoft and licences to an additional 300. The 800 patents have not been disclosed, though the remaining 300 relate to advertising, search, content generation, social networking, mapping and multimedia/streaming technologies, according to AOL. "Sounds very Google-like, doesn't it?" commented Art Monk, vice president of UBM TechInsights. David Pratt, president of asset management firm M-CAM predicted Amazon could be a likely candidate for the next big patent deal. So far, the e-commerce company has seven social networking patents. "If the Facebook IPO is successful, they will look at how to pay investors back, and may look at the monetisation of the user base – [rather than] just getting ad revenue from Facebook," Pratt said. "If they do, and you're an entity that was already a phenomenal e-commerce site and it turned out you were holding e-commerce social networking patents, that might be a really interesting situation to be in."

Applicants for new gTLDs were left vexed last month after ICANN suspended the process due to a technical fault. It later emerged that some applicants had been able to see others' file names and user names.

Margot Fröhlinger, a former senior official in the European Commission's IP team, has taken on a new role. She has joined the EPO as principal director for patent law and international affairs in DG 5. Fröhlinger is widely credited with driving discussions on an EU unitary patent and unified litigation system, although member states have yet to agree a final deal.