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eBay is not generally liable for trade mark infringements committed by its users, but can be held liable where there are persistent infringers. This was the conclusion of Advocate General Niilo Jääskinen in a detailed opinion published in December, which addressed 10 questions from the High Court in London in a dispute between eBay and L'Oréal.

Companies in Hong Kong should start preparing to balance the conflicting demands of IP and competition law, as a Competition Bill is likely to be passed in 2012, said speakers at a seminar last week

The 2011 Patent Reform Act would mean significant changes for the USPTO

Actavis UK v Merck & Co, Inc is a recent example of inconsistency between English courts and the European Patent Office regarding second medical use claims. Nigel Jones and Frederick Ch’en of Linklaters discuss its implications

The date has been set for a key meeting between Icann’s Board and the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), but will it lead to further delays in the new gTLD Applicant Guidebook?

The USPTO and IP Australia have extended their pilot patent prosecution highway (PPH) programme until April 13 2012.

WIPO's latest patent report reveals an Asian patent boom. Peter Ollier considers what impact the rise of IP offices in China and Korea will have on the international patent system

Microsoft is unlikely to block Apple from registering the App Store trade mark in the United States, lawyers have predicted

In Sweden, universities and other higher education institutions (HEIs) are classed as government agencies, and their main task as stipulated by law is to contribute to research and education. Like all Swedish government agencies, HEIs must abide by the Principle of Public Access to Official Documents. The conflict of interest between, on one hand, the need for increased commercialization of research results and therefore keeping certain results confidential to fulfil the novelty requirement in patent law and, on the other hand, the ambition to promote free research, and the publication of research results becomes obvious. How can this conflict be resolved?

Sweden's legislators and judicial authorities are facing a delicate problem in connection with file sharing – that is, with uploading and downloading of copyrighted material from the internet. The problem is that the existing legislation regulating the issue is ignored by the vast majority of people whom it is principally intended to govern.