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New legislation passed by the US Senate for cheaper prescription drugs may not survive the House of Representatives intact.

Domain name registrar Internetters will challenge a US arbitration decision in the UK High Court in one of the few cases of its kind.

The State Council respectively approved The Copyright Law Implementing Regulations and the Trade Mark Law Implementing Regulations on August 2 and 3 2002. Both will become effective on September 15 2002.

The UK Court of Appeal has cleared a rival of biotech heavyweight Amgen of patent infringement, in a decision viewed as restoring balance to the patent system.

Taiwan's Executive Yuan, or Cabinet, is beginning to act on promises it made in April to help the copyright industries tackle infringement.

Muhyiddin Yassin, Malaysia's Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, has denied that he said in a newspaper interview that the government was considering allowing some groups in Malaysian society to use pirated software.

French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo has successfully prosecuted a shirt manufacturer over the illegal use of his name and image in advertising campaigns in Italy.

Dell Computers has secured 83 domain names that an arbitration panel ruled were registered and used in bad faith by a Venezuelan organization.

Australia: Almost 40% of Australian businesses are using pirated software, according to a Dimension Data Australia survey reported in The Australian newspaper, with IT managers blaming the problem on complex licensing programmes and a lack of internal monitoring. China: Sina.com, said to be China's leading internet content provider, has been ordered to pay Qian Kun, a writer, Rmb2,000 ($240) for publishing work Qian had done exclusively for Sohu.com, Sina's biggest rival, according to China Daily. Beijing No 1 Intermediate Court also ordered Sina.com to carry apologies to the writer on its sports channel for seven days. China: In what is thought to be an unprecedented move, authorities will allow US prosecutors to come to Beijing to question witnesses about the theft of Lucent Technologies software. The US lawyers are coming to the Chinese capital to interview staff from Datang Telecom Technology. In June 2001, three Chinese citizens, two of whom worked at Lucent's headquarters in New Jersey, were charged with stealing trade secrets from Lucent with the intent of using Datang to market a product based on the secrets. China: The Supreme People's Court has ruled that a trade mark owner can be prosecuted in a product liability action. The Beijing Municipal Higher People's Court asked the higher court to rule on the issue after it came up in a case concerning General Motors, the US car company, and two of its subsidiaries. The ruling came into force on July 28. Japan: The Office for Promotion of Justice System Reform is to study a proposal to exclude the public from court hearings on patents and other IP rights to prevent important business secrets from being revealed, according to Kyodo News Service. Japan: Sony has developed Open MG X, a new digital copyright management and distribution technology, which it says will stop the unauthorized copying of entertainment files, such as music and films, that are distributed over the internet and also enable content distributors to set hours and number of times for replaying such files. Thailand: The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has made its first raid in Thailand on a website it believes was selling pirated software, music, movies and pornography. The Economic Crime Investigations Division of the Thai Police carried out the raid on SmileThailand.com with the help of BSA investigators. The operator of the website was said to be selling CDs for Bt150 ($3.57).

In a surprise arbitration decision, Nike has lost its complaint over five domain names registered by a Korean company.