IP Conversation:

• Speaking Up For Trademark Owners
  Jane Collins, chair at MARQUES, outlines her vision for the association's future and explains why the need for European-wide awareness has never been greater
   
• All Mapped Out
  MPeter Spours, head of IP, and Jacob Eisenberg, head of IP creation, reveal how TomTom's IP philosophy is helping to steer the company in the right direction
  
  

Industry Focus:

• Searching For Knowledge
  CPA's Randy Lacasse explains how patent research is helping business fast-track patent applications in the US
   
• License to Skill
  ACT's Morgan Reed provides salient licensing advice for small- and medium-sized enterprise
   
• Back to Basics: CIP Forum 2007
  We report back from the CIP Forum 2007 held last may in Gothenburg, Sweden

Features:

• Off Campus
  Ian Harvey, Jeff Skinner, Gilles Capart, Beatrix de Russe and Bianca McDonogh explain how academia is working with business to commercialise IP
   
• Information Overdrive?
  How is business coping with the management of its critical IP data? CPA's Jonathan Newcombe investigates
   
• The CEO's Guide to IP
  In an extract from our recent white paper, Jeff Maddox outlines key IP information from the company boardroom
  

Legal Briefs:

• The IP Guide to...Brazil
  Attilio Gorini and Rodrigo Borges Carneiro introduce recent developments to IP legislation in Brazil

• Winds of Change
  Robert Lindefjeld and Cecilia Dickson of Jones Day reveal how the US Patent Reform Act of 2007 will affect businesses trading in the territory
     
  

• Letters
  Your thoughts and feedback
   
• Opinion
  Bowman J Heiden and Ulf Petrusson on Europe's resistance to change
   
• Global news
  A round-up of the latest IP developments
  

• 60-second interview
  Former WIPO panelist, George RF Souter
   
• Brand focus: Champagne
  The IP supporting the bubbles
   
• Reviews
  Book highlights this issue

• Thought Leader
  The link between IP and 20 million surfers
   
• Lighter side
  Is the London Olympics 2012 logo good, bad or just ugly? asks Richard Brass