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  • Do copyright laws incentivize artists to create in a way that benefits society as a whole, or do they discourage innovation by locking up culture for the financial benefit of a small minority? MIP asked a copyright owner and a pro-piracy campaigner to debate whether the copyright law balance has tipped too far in favour of rights holders. Christian Engström of the Swedish Pirate Party opens the correspondence, and Scott Martin of Paramount Pictures responds
  • 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.
  • As though the questions of more top-level domains, country codes, the EU domain, cyberpiracy and squatting are not enough problems to deal with, WIPO is now facing a new challenge: what to do about international non-proprietary names (INNs).
  • Three years ago the European Patent Office launched an innovative project to consider how the IP environment may evolve by 2025. What they discovered will have far-reaching consequences for IP users, owners and policy makers, says project leader Shirin Elahi
  • Microsoft is unlikely to block Apple from registering the App Store trade mark in the United States, lawyers have predicted
  • Telstra’s last ditch attempt to protect copyright in its telephone directories by filing for special leave to appeal to the Australian High Court is likely to fail, say lawyers
  • China has long been criticized for failing to enforce IP rights. Now, after years of thinly veiled threats, the US has taken the matter to the WTO. Peter Ollier considers what may happen next, and how the row will affect IP owners
  • Lawyers believe that criticism of China’s patent system by UK inventor James Dyson goes too far
  • The market for pharmaceuticals in Brazil has great potential. Yet Brazil's Health Authority is in conflict with the pharmaceutical industry over IP rights, and sales are suffering. Deborah Portilho and Rana Gosain of Daniel Advogados investigate