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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

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

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.

Peter Ollier talks to Weerawit Weeraworawit about looking at intellectual property as a human right and the impact of the TRIPs Agreement on the Asia-Pacific region

The Argentine Patent law was amended in 2004, under an agreement made between the Argentina and US governments within a WTO consultation. These amendments were primarily related to the procedural requirements for temporary injunctions.

As reported in the this section in September 2009, the procedural peculiarities of divisional applications have kept the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) busy for a while. On September 27 2010, the EBA delivered its decision in case G 1/09, in which the EBA was to consider at which point in time the "pending" status of a European patent application ends, ie when the applicant's deadline for filing a divisional expires if the parent application is refused.

James Nurton, London

A survey of 80 Chinese in-house IP counsel spells out their global filing strategies. Peter Ollier and Janice Qu analyse the numbers, and profile four companies that typify the trend

Yoshitaka Sonoda and Diane Beylier of Sonoda & Kobayashi discuss expected patent law reforms

Despite its scope, few companies have registered for a European Community design since its launch. Three advocates describe their experiences