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www.worldipreview.com EDITORIAL PANEL
Pravin Anand, senior partner, Anand and Anand
Roberto Arochi, partner, Arochi Marroquín & Lindner SC
Roberto Barchiesi, president, International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition
Colin Davies, director, Intellectual Property Law Unit, University of Glamorgan
Gabriel Di Blasi, partner, Di Blasi, Parente & Associados
Ronald Faggetter, managing partner, Smart & Biggar/ Fetherstonhaugh
Maurice Gonsalves, partner, Mallesons Stephen Jaques
Rana Gosain, partner, Daniel Advogados
Richard Gough, partner, Baker & McKenzie
Lewis Gould, partner, Duane Morris LLP
Henning Hartwig, partner, Bardehle Pagenberg
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
Stephen Yang, partner, Peksung Intellectual Property
In this issue of the World IP Review e-Digest, we hear from the key jurisdictions as well as some of those that are less commonly considered when it comes to IP. If you need to know about IP in the West Indies, or Colombia, or the British Virgin Islands, you’ve come to the right place.
We hope you enjoy the World IP Review e-Digest 2013, and please do contact us with any comments or suggestions for future issues. If you have something to contribute, we’d love you to get in touch.
Peter Scott, Editor Covering all the bases
Hello, and welcome to the World IP Review e-Digest 2013. Tis year’s edition features contributions from 23 countries and six leading intellectual property associations. Te Digest aims to provide a retrospective on developments in the last 12 months, and a look forward to the challenges that are likely to present themselves in the coming year.
Tis past year was an interesting one in the world of IP. Te America Invents Act took effect in the US, meaning some harmonisation with what might be termed global norms for patent law and significant changes to the statute. Time will tell how successful those changes are, especially when it comes to the impact of the first-to-file provision for patents, but the early signs are mostly positive.
In Europe, the long-awaited Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court have been approved (though not yet ratified). It is less clear at the moment that these developments will be as successful as their authors want, but assuming they do eventually come into being, the change to practice in Europe will be profound.
Of course, what happen in Europe and the US is important, but it’s becoming ever clearer that other important nexuses for IP have developed. China continues to emerge as a leading jurisdiction, and indeed, recent Tomson Reuters research suggests that, along with Brazil, Russia, Korea and India, the emerging countries are fast catching up with the established G7 in terms of patents filed. It’s a similar story on the trademark side, though there remain concerns about the quality and enforceability of IP rights in some of those countries.
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