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IP Owners Cheer Changes to China Customs’ Enforcement
08 November 2012Recent changes in China Customs’ enforcement of intellectual property rights promise to benefit the holders of IP rights – including copyrights, China-registered trademarks and substantively examined and China-registered patents...
How to Host a Harry Potter Party and Not Offend Warner Bros
07 November 2012Warner Bros made headlines last Halloween when it sent a cease and desist letter to a London woman, ordering her to stop planning two Harry Potter-themed dinner parties. Hamish Fraser and Kate Morton examine whether a Harry Potter party wou...
Biological Resources of India
09 November 2012The protection of biological resources, their access and regulation and the application of benefit sharing principles are still in the nascent stage in India, where the recognition of bioresources as intellectual property is slowly but surely being a...