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.

Nokia is to give away some of its intellectual property for free, in a scheme set up to recycle unused ideas and innovations to other Finnish companies.

International experts at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have agreed to simplify the structure of the international system for classifying patents.

GlaxoSmithKline is to place over 500 granted patents, and over 300 pending applications, into a pool to help others to develop medicines for neglected diseases.

International trademark activity remained robust in 2008 with the World International Property Organisation (WIPO) receiving a record 42,075 applications.

Four of Europe’s leading micro and nanotechnology research bodies are reaching across national boundaries to create a single arm for grants and spin-outs.