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A preview of the third Global Forum on IP, which will take place on January 6 and 7 2011 in Singapore

The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted the Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions bill at its 40th session in December 2007.

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.

James Nurton and Fionn O'Raghallaigh

Saul Santoyo and Jose Luis Ramos-Zurita of Uhthoff Gomez Vega & Uhthoff chart the rise of the counterfeit industry from minor legal issue to global criminal network

Víctor Garrido of Dumont Bergman Bider & Co discusses the convergence and divergence between Bilski and the Mexican patent system

Three major changes to Mexico’s IP system bode well for innovation and international investment. Eileen McDermott reports

The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is intended to provide trade mark owners with a relatively quick and inexpensive way to resolve a dispute regarding a third party's registration and use of a domain name that is identical or confusingly similar to a trade mark in which the owner has rights. The UDRP provides a single mechanism for resolving the domain dispute and offers the potential for compelling the transfer of the domain name at issue to the trade mark owner. Since the UDRP is intentionally designed to be an expedited process without the costs associated with litigation, trade mark owners are often eager to use the UDRP as a means to get a domain name registration out of the hands of a perceived cyber-squatter.

This year has seen a number of important steps for IP rights in Vietnam, beginning with amendments to the Law on Intellectual Property, which became effective on January 1 2010, and ending with substantial developments in IP enforcement. Two of the most notable developments were the first-ever court ruling on patent infringement in Vietnam and the issuance of a new decree that revises and clarifies the sanctions for IP violations.

Rosalía Bautista of Becerril Coca & Becerril SC discusses the new requirement for including biological and physical data when filing patent applications