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  • US discovery may be useful to companies bringing trade secret actions and frustrated by the lack of evidence gathering mechanisms in countries like China and Japan
  • Judge Randall Rader has announced that he will retire from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit effective on June 30
  • The balance between what companies and what governments spend on tackling counterfeits is wrong, with governments needing to do more, said Paul Polman, chief executive of Unilever, at last week’s International IP Enforcement Summit in London
  • Developing legislation to deal with goods-in-transit and protecting trade secrets will be among Italy’s priorities when it takes over the EU presidency on July 1, said Simona Vicari, under secretary of state at the Ministry of Economic Development, at last week’s IP Enforcement Summit in London
  • Mexico’s intellectual property office ruling in favour of iFone, Lego asking the UK government to remove images, German legal scholars debating whether Mein Kampf should be studied or suppressed when its copyright expires and a study claiming patent trolls restrict venture capital investment were among the intellectual property stories hitting the headlines in the past week
  • Last week’s International IP Enforcement Summit, jointly hosted by the UK IPO, OHIM and the European Commission, featured some powerful statements. But now the challenge is to make them heard where it really matters – outside in the real world
  • Richard Gordon-Brown has joined IP firm EIP from rival Page White & Farrer. He will be based in the firm’s office in Bath, UK
  • The US, backed by Switzerland, has urged the WTO TRIPs Council to end the trade body’s moratorium on non-violation disputes
  • Canada is becoming more active in registering non-traditional marks, with sound marks the first to be permitted. But many brand owners are waiting to see how courts interpret these marks before applying for them
  • It is not surprising that IP owners prefer to sue in their home jurisdiction. But multi-jurisdictional litigation battles in the telecoms sector have reminded lawyers of the importance of fighting on all fronts, said speakers on a panel on the unitary patent and UPC last week