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Stéphanie Bodoni, London

The Federal Court of Australia recently found a company director personally liable for patent infringement. In Inverness Medical Switzerland GmbH v MDS Diagnostics Pty Limited [2010] FCA 108, Inverness was the owner of a number of patents in the field of pregnancy testing and sued both the company MDS and its director, Dr Appanna, a family doctor in Auckland. Inverness argued that the doctor was a joint tortfeasor in directing MDS in the infringement.

A new dispute resolution proceeding for domain names named Syreli entered into force on November 21 2011. Then, on December 6 2011 the registration of .fr was extended to all persons located in the EU, Norway, Gibraltar, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. New extensions have also been opened:

Apioneer batch of 20 people comprising IP professionals, bankers, accountants and venture capitalists commenced training on IP valuation in March this year. The training is being jointly organised by the Malaysian IP Office (MyIPO) and the government agency responsible for driving the ICT industry in Malaysia, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC). The intensive training modules were formulated in collaboration with local IP professionals and IP valuation experts and trainers from Switzerland, the UK and the United States.

What is the biggest challenge for IP owners entering emerging markets? This was one of the questions addressed by the UK’s IP attachés, who were visiting London recently from their bases in Brazil, China, Singapore and Switzerland

Singapore and the countries of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) will offer each other some of the most advanced IP protection in the world when their free trade agreement comes into effect, probably on January 1 2003. The EFTA-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (ESFTA) was signed on June 26 at the EFTA ministerial meeting in Iceland and is the first free trade pact an east Asian country has signed with EFTA, which is made up of Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. The IP section of the agreement goes beyond anything on IP contained in the free trade agreements Singapore has signed in the last two years with New Zealand and Japan.

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The 2020 edition of Managing IP’s Rising Stars publication is now available online

The 2021 rankings of the leading law firms for copyright and related rights work are now available online

The Berlin office will mark the firm’s fourth German base and tenth overall