Asia Pacific
Corporate counsel desperately seeking value
In-house lawyers fighting downturn with efforts to reduce spend on legal services and negotiate different cost models with their law firms...  »
Major WIPO report details surge in innovation industry
Organisation’s first World IP Report takes 40-year, panoramic view of an IP economy that is outpacing global GDP and driving change in poorer countries...  »
The ‘shore’ thing for IP management
In his latest blog, Matt Packer discovers that in intellectual property and legal services, a combination of offshore and onshore solutions will lead to the ‘right’ outcome...  »
Legal sector Action Plan kicks off in India
Government initiative to raise awareness of liberalisation benefits makes a start in world’s leading location for legal services outsourcing...  »
Shores of sophistication: de-lawyering the legal process
A recent US criminal case has dramatically rekindled debate over law-firm costs. Matt Packer digests a new international study that points the way to more flexible arrangements...  »
.xxx marks the spot in rampant rush for new domain
Stampede for adult-content suffix now underway, with central registration body offering block for any brand seeking to avoid raunchy connotations...  »
Gatekeeping and domains: how ICANN will guard brands in the new gTLD structure
Trademark protection has emerged as the primary concern over the coming new domains landscape. However, writes Alex Hall of Mundays Solicitors, the framework has been designed with prevention of abuse....  »
Are lawmakers smoking out tobacco brands?
Australia faces some imposing legal hurdles in its attempt to ban tobacco trademarks. However, as Matt Packer writes, this has not stopped other countries from thinking about extinguishing them...  »
New trends in ESI: has network pride led to privacy’s fall?
Recent innovations in the networking field have raised public expectations of online privacy. Matt Packer asks whether these hopes are realistic...  »
There’s something awfully familiar about this place…
Fake handbags, garments and perfumes are so last week. Matt Packer reports that counterfeiters in China have something altogether bigger in mind: entire locations...  »