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  • Singapore's patent rules have been amended this year to recognize search and examination reports and patents issued by the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) in the grant process of Singapore patents. Singapore patent applications with a priority filing date on or after August 15 2002, may rely on JPO search and examination reports and granted patents in place of local search and examination.
  • In a series of four decisions rendered recently by the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH), the Court considered the extent to which the doctrine of equivalents applies to patent claims reciting numerical ranges: BGH GRUR 2002, 515 - Schneidmesser I (in English, Cutting Knife I); 519 - Schneidmesser II; 523 - Custodiol I; 527 - Custodiol II.
  • James Hamilton, Philippe Signore and Christopher Ward explain why design patents are becoming more popular as a means of protection in the US
  • A UK court has upheld freedom of expression over privacy in the high profile case of supermodel Naomi Campbell, which interpreted the Data Protection Act for the first time.
  • Licensing can generate millions of dollars for technology companies, but many executives still do not take full advantage of the opportunities available. Dan McCurdy and Marshall Phelps explode the myths that prevent companies from developing successful licensing programmes
  • Rosella L Fernandez, assistant director, and Emma C Francisco, director general, Philippines Bureau of Patents
  • Scents, sounds, colours and shapes have become more and more popular ways of representing a product. New procedures and systems for registering marks have made the job of the trade mark owner even more complicated. Ralph Cunningham reports
  • One might have thought that the question of the exhaustion of trade marks in the European Economic Area (EEA) had been resolved, or at least stabilized, to a certain extent.
  • Following promulgation by the State Council of the new Implementing Regulations on Copyright Law, the Supreme People's Court also promulgated a new Judicial Interpretation on Several Issues relating to the Application of Law in Adjudicating Civil Copyright Dispute Cases. The new Judicial Interpretation, which came into force on October 15 2002, clarifies certain issues on copyright disputes.