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? EU: The European Parliament's September 11 vote on the draft Anti-Piracy Directive was rescheduled for November 4 when Janelly Fourtou, the MEP leading the debate on the Directive, failed to produce her final report on the draft.

The Licensing Executives Society International is where the world's largest licensing groups come together to meet and talk business. The Society's president, Mel Jager, tells Sam Mamudi about making the licensing world smaller

National IP offices will never be good enough in the eyes of their users. Rights applicants believe applications can always be dealt with quicker, cheaper and more efficiently. The commissioner of the Korean Intellectual Property Office tells Ralph Cunningham how his organization is addressing these issues

Spain has long been vulnerable to parallel imports, explains Carles Prat of Mullerat in Barcelona. But recent decisions have confirmed the principle of Community-wide exhaustion

Microsoft will appeal a Chicago jury verdict that ordered it to pay $521 million to the University of California and Eolas Technologies for patent infringement.

Seven years on from the opening of the Community Trade Marks Office, the European courts have clarified many of the controversial issues faced by applicants. Pen Hosford, of Marks & Clerk in London, examines the most important cases

In an attempt to counter the effects of a recently-passed US law allowing medicine to be imported from Canada, drugs-maker Pfizer has said that it will stop supplying Canadian wholesalers and will only deal directly with pharmacists.

Ingrid Hering, London

Three international law firms have closed their Hong Kong IP groups already this year. But, despite fundamental changes in the IP market, the mood is not one of doom and gloom. Practitioners are still looking forward to the future with optimism. Ralph Cunningham reports

On May 22 2003 the Law On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Intellectual Property Protection was adopted. The new Law came into force on June 25 2003, and was passed to harmonize Ukrainian legislation with the provisions of the TRIPs Agreement. It covers a number of legislative innovations including the amendments introduced into special legislation, that is the Law On Protection of Rights in Trade Marks and Service Marks (the Trade Mark Law); the Law On Protection of Rights in Inventions and Utility Models; and others presented into the Codes of Civil and Commercial Procedure of Ukraine.