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  • Merger mania has hit the life sciences industry. And it is all because of patents, or rather lack of them. James Nurton examines the role of intellectual property in pharmaceuticals deals
  • Singapore has amended its copyright legislation to account for the popularity of the Internet. The Copyright (Amendment) Bill 1999, which was passed by Parliament on August 17, caters for digital areas not previously considered by legislators and updates existing Internet law. The legislation emerged from consultations undertaken by the Electronic Commerce Committee, a group formed by the Registry of Trade Marks & Patents in 1998.
  • White & Case has become the first full-service US law firm to recruit an entire IP department staffed by English-law qualified practitioners for its London office.
  • Litigation and IP consultancy TDRC has taken another step towards competing with the big five accountants. The firm is taking over the IPC group, a prominent litigation and valuation advisory firm in Chicago.
  • The Venezuelan government is to ask its regional neighbours to support a request to the WTO to postpone the deadline for developing countries to comply with the TRIPs agreement.
  • In October 1995 product and process descriptions were introduced by the Patents Court to reduce the burden of discovery on a defendant in relation to issues of infringement.
  • Computer software is currently protected in Russia by the Law of the Russian Federation on the Legal Protection of Computer Programs and Databases of September 23 1992. At that time this was an important step toward securing protection of rights in a quickly developing field of human activities. The law provided for voluntary registration of software. In fact, it was very similar to the Law on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights which protected literary, musical and similar works.
  • Software patents may be a hot topic, but copyright protection is still the first port of call for many computer companies.
  • Patent pooling and licensing are critical to telecom standardization. But companies still fight fiercely to protect their rights. Two of them almost came to blows in court earlier this year. Ralph Cunningham reports
  • Expert witnesses can turn a case, but some courts are treating them with increasing scepticism.