Issue 26

IP Conversation:

• Team building
  Arsenal Football Club’s head of IP and brand protection, Ronald Crawford, outlines new initiatives to tackle counterfeit football merchandise 
• The personal touch
  Law firms are re-evaluating client management programmes in order to deliver a more efficient service. Elodie Guillon speaks to Keltie’s Roy Scott about the importance of the right software system 
• New leadership
  WIPO’s new director general, Dr Francis Gurry, explains to Edward Fennell why he believes public policy is more important than private law

Features:

• Uncharted territory
  Plans to expand the Top-Level Domain could result in added expense and risk for brand owners but there are opportunities too. Our experts set out the issues  
• IP in a downturn
  Patent-related litigation won’t be affected by the current recession in the long term, say Brett J Williamson and Michael L Myers of O’Melveny & Myers LLP 
• Image conscious
  Big splashy logos are so last season. The new look is stylish packaging. Julia Anne Matheson and Anna Balichina of Finnegan LLP report on how such packaging can be protected

Legal Briefs:

• Fresh challenge for pharma
  Wragge & Co LLP’s Bonita Trimmer explains what the European Commission’s pharmaceutical sector inquiry is likely to mean for the industry  
• The IP guide to… software patents
  Kenneth Mullen of Shepherd and Wedderburn outlines what Symbian really means for software patentability in the UK 
• A mark of superiority
  Geographical indications are marks of quality as well as provenance, so why hasn’t the system been widely adopted, asks Michael Blakeney

• Protecting the part – and the whole?
  A continuation-in-part can provide companies with an alternative method for protecting innovation in the US, says Frost Brown Todd LLC’s Stephen Albainy-Jenei

Regulars:

• Letters
  Your thoughts and feedback 
• Opinion
  Make your IP work harder for you, says Edmund J Haughey of Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto  
• Global news
  A round-up of recent IP news

• Events
  IP conferences this season 
• Reviews
  The latest book releases  
• Brand focus
  The Boeing 747 or ‘jumbo jet’

• Lighter side
  Are auctions a legitimate method for selling IP, asks Richard Brass

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