Foreign companies now have more confidence in India’s patent system, but the economic boom is yet to produce much home grown innovation, says a new report.

The countries of the World Intellectual Property Organisation last week suspended the earliest of the three acts that govern the International Deposit of Industrial Designs.

The European Patent Office has published the names of the four candidates who will be interviewed for the post of President, which falls vacant on 1 July 2010.

Patent laws in the Republic of Ireland have been amended to streamline the system and bring it into line with the rest of Europe.

A new programme has been set up to promote the use of IP as a catalyst for economic and commercial development in Africa and LDCs.

A new report from law firm Taylor Wessing ranks countries as places to obtain, exploit, enforce and attack intellectual property.

The number of international trademark registrations topped the one million mark when an Austrian company, Grune Erde, registered its mark this month.