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The head of Chile’s IP office gives his views on the recent agreement with Brazil, the PCT and WIPO’s Standing Committee on Patents

Applicants for European patents now have to supply the EPO with the search results from their priority applications, under new rules that came into force on January 1

China is planning its third overhaul of its Patent Law and has issued a set of draft amendments for consultation. Li Yong and Chen Wenping of King & Wood provide a guide to the proposals and explain how patent practice is likely to change

IP owners need to understand their chances of being awarded costs before they take legal action to enforce their rights. Zeeger Vink explains the rules in Europe

Turkish copyright law now almost complies with the WIPO internet treaties. Ugur Aktekin of Mehmet Gün & Partners outlines the changes the law has gone through

The new R&D Law came into effect as of April 1 2008 in Turkey and introduced incentives and supports for investors in R&D activities, through tax incentives, land allocations and other financial instruments. The new law allows companies to deduct their R&D investments from their tax base.

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.

Nokia's Tim Frain brings to the presidency of TMPDF battle scars from the debate over the CII directive. James Nurton spoke to him about patent policy, phone standards and the IP triangle

The flexibility of copyright means it is key to promoting IT in developing countries, according to Microsoft’s associate general counsel for IP policy and strategy

The Federal Circuit’s decision to uphold Prometheus’s diagnostic method patents despite Bilski should elicit “a sigh of relief” from clinical and research diagnostic companies