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World Intellectual Property Review: ISSN 1758-7528 (Print)


Cover image: shutterstock.com www.worldipreview.com EDITORIAL PANEL


Stefan Abel, partner, Bardehle Pagenberg


Roberto Arochi, partner, Arochi Marroquín & Lindner SC


Roberto Barchiesi, president, International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition


Colin Davies, director, Intellectual Property Law Unit, University of Glamorgan


Michael Factor, partner, JMB Fa©tor & Co


Ronald Faggetter, managing partner, Smart & Biggar/ Fetherstonhaugh


Maurice Gonsalves, partner, Mallesons Stephen Jacques


Richard Gough, partner, Baker & McKenzie


Lewis Gould, partner, Duane Morris LLP


Chris McLeod, director of trademarks, Squire Sanders Hammonds


Jacqueline Needle, partner, Beck Greener


Sergio Olivares, partner, Olivares & Cia


John Pegram, senior principal, Fish and Richardson PC


Rebecca L. Roby, senior director of business affairs, Hard Rock International


Pier Luigi Roncaglia, partner, Studio Legale SIB


Mario Soerensen Garcia, founder and managing partner, Soerensen Garcia Advogados Associados


Paul J. Sutton, co-founding partner, Sutton Magidoff LLP


Geoff Wicks, chief executive officer, NetNames


Stephen Yang, partner, Peksung Intellectual Property


World Intellectual Property Review e-Digest 2012 3 A year of change


Hello, and welcome to the World IP Review e-Digest 2012. Tis year’s edition features attorneys from Sudan to Saudi Arabia, from India to Iceland, all telling us about the major events in intellectual property of last year. With more articles from more people in more jurisdictions than ever before, we’re confident that the e-Digest is a useful look back at the past 12 months, as well as a pertinent guide to what might turn up in the next year.


2011 may come to be seen as one of the most important years ever for IP. US patent reform finally arrived, and its impact will not be fully realised for years to come. But the ramifications will be great, and when coupled with strides made in Europe towards a unitary patent, it signals a shiſting of the ground on which people’s assumptions about patents rest.


But more and more, Europe and the US tell only part of the story. Developing jurisdictions continue to gain influence over the tenor of international IP concerns. In some, changes to IP legislation or judicial procedure have simplified matters, making cases more efficient and the law more robust. But in others, there is still much work to do.


We have more than 250 pages of information and analysis that can help you over the next year, wherever you’re trying to do business.


We hope you enjoy the World IP Review e-Digest 2012, and please do contact us with any comments or suggestions for future issues. And if you have something to contribute, we’d love you to get in touch.


Peter Scott, Editor


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