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The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is set to reopen its patent challenge and antitrust complaint against pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline after a US court threw out an earlier attempt.

Console game developers are cracking down on illegal manipulation of their software, with two companies threatening legal action against hackers in recent weeks.

Intel Corporation and VIA Technologies have settled a series of pending patent lawsuits relating to chipsets and microprocessors.

The State Council announced on December 28 2002 the amendments to the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law which became effective on February 1 2003. The new amendments effectively extend the time limit within which PCT applications under Chapter I can enter the national phase in China to 30 months (from the priority date) from 20 months previously. In accordance with the amendments, the subject extension shall only apply to a PCT application designating China where its 20-month time limit has not expired as of February 1 2003.

Stéphanie Bodoni, London

The Australian Senate has passed a law which reforms the parallel imports provisions of the Copyright Act. The legislation widens the scope for parallel imports but late amendments spared the publishing industry, reports Ralph Cunningham

The US Supreme Court's ruling in the Victoria's Secret dilution case is the latest example of the trend to rein in IP rights. Edward Vassallo and Tila Duhaime examine what the ruling means for trade mark holders

The frictions between the laws regulating the ownership and exercise of IP rights and anti-competitive agreements are known and long-standing. What is less widely understood is the extent to which this situation will change following recent reforms to UK and EU competition law, explains Guy Lougher

Pandrol USA LP v Airboss Railway Products Inc, 65 USPQ 2d 1985 (Fed Cir 2003) deals with several interesting questions of jurisdiction and waiver under US law.

Trade marks that include a design may suffer variations during the time they are used. This occurs due to modernization imposed by fashion. Not even well-known marks are exempt from periodical updating, even when their essential characteristics stay the same.