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  • It is widely believed that change is as good as a rest. Certainly this seems to be the case in the Asia-Pacific, although unfortunately, little has changed and no one has had any rest. The internet dominated the Asian-Pacific scene in last year's survey and its impact is still reverberating through IP practices. If anything it is registering even higher on the Richter scale. Intellectual property lawyers have never been so busy.
  • ? Thailand: Rouse & Co International has opened a Bangkok office. At the beginning of October, the firm hired Fabrice Mattei from Bangkok firm Monkolnavin to head up the new office. The firm now has nearly 800 staff in offices in eight countries.
  • Intellectual property management has, historically, been concerned with protection issues. In the first of three articles on IP value issues, Tony Samuel explains why value is the prime reason for IP protection
  • ? CHINA: Proctor and Gamble has won its trade mark infringement case against Shanghai Chenxuan Zhineng Science and Technology Development Co for registering the name safeguard.com.cn which P&G registered in China in 1976.
  • ? JAPAN: Gene Logic and Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, the Japanese subsidiary of Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Ltd, announced an alliance granting Amersham distribution rights to market and sell Gene Logic's products to the Japanese market. Financial terms were not disclosed.
  • ? ARGENTINA: The American government has initiated legal action against Argentina over drug patents. The Americans believe the 1995 Argentine law does not provide adequate protection for the pharmaceutical industry , and does not fulfil TRIPs requirements.
  • Counterfeit fear over new legislation
  • Alexander von Mühlendahl, vice-president, OHIM in Alicante
  • Trade mark practitioners report record workloads, greater demands from clients and increased competition. James Nurton and Tabitha Parker investigate the latest trends in the second part of MIP’s fifth annual survey of the world’s leading IP firms
  • As though the questions of more top-level domains, country codes, the EU domain, cyberpiracy and squatting are not enough problems to deal with, WIPO is now facing a new challenge: what to do about international non-proprietary names (INNs).