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Putting in place powers of attorney to appoint IP agents has long been a headache for IP owners, especially when the powers need to be notarised and legalised. Changes this year to the procedures in Syria for powers of attorney appear to have added to the administrative burden and left many IP owners puzzled.

Google’s agreement to scan works published in France by Hachette has spread an US view of copyright to Europe. Fionn O’Raghallaigh and James Nurton ask what it means for European copyright owners

The High Court in London has ruled that web links and headlines taken from newspapers’ websites are protected by copyright

The Court of The Hague in The Netherlands has asked the Court of Justice of the EU to clarify three questions on genuine use of Community trade marks in the Onel case

The Swedish Court of Appeals has upheld convictions of copyright infringement made against the founders of The Pirate Bay website

Almost 400 guests attended dinners on both sides of the Atlantic in March to celebrate the winners of Managing IP's global and North America awards

The full, unabridged, interviews with the candidates for the position of WIPO director-general, in alphabetical order

Has China turned a corner in its commitment to protecting IP? A series of headline-grabbing court rulings at the end of 2005 in which Chinese judges upheld the rights of IP owners certainly suggests that foreign businesses can have far more success in enforcing their rights than is commonly believed. In the space of two months, Starbucks won an order for damages from would-be rival Shanghai Xing Ba Ke, Italian chocolate maker Ferrero stopped a copycat confectioner from selling look-alike products and five luxury goods companies persuaded a Beijing court to hold a landlord jointly liable for sales of fakes in his market.

Since OHIM opened, it has received more than half a million applications for Community trade marks. Thousands have been rejected, and thousands more opposed prompting frustrated would-be trade mark owners to go to the European courts. How can they maximize their chances of winning? Emma Barraclough finds out

The USPTO has extended its backlog reduction pilot programme, Project Exchange, by one year.