Top 10 Headlines from Asia Pacific Ciba Inc. in a move against Sequent [Ciba Inc. & Anr. v. Sequent Scientific Ltd & Ors. Notice of Motion No.3472 OF 2009 in Suit No.2501 of 2009] alleged them for breach of confidentiality before the High Court of Bombay. On 23 October 2009 the Beijing Dongcheng District People's Court announced the settlement of an Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) case brought by an activist lawyer in Beijing against China's largest mobile network operator, China Mobile. As the world goes through a slowdown emanating from the shake up of the financial sector in the USA and wakes up to the ripple effects of globalization, it is natural to believe that the onslaught of recessionary forces will have their due bearing on Intellectual Properties (“IP”) and the strategies involving their protection, enforcement or commercialization. As a result of external pressures and to meet its own economic objectives, China has been moving its intellectual property rights (IPR) regime closer to those found in many more developed nations. One of the most important challenges for businesses today is to remain profitable in a global economy China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has continued its recent trend of taking an activist approach to merger control in imposing conditions under the Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) on the clearance of two proposed mergers, Pfizer/Wyeth and General Motors/Delphi. On September 28, 2009, the PRC General Administration of Press and Publication (“GAPP”), National Copyright Administration, and National Office of Combating Pornography and Illegal Publications jointly published the Notice Regarding the Consistent Implementation of the “Stipulations on ‘Three Provisions’” of the State Council and the Relevant Interpretations of the State Commission Office for Public Sector Reform and the Further Strengthening of the Administration of Pre-examination and Approval Mr Perera’s employer leased and occupied the fifth floor of a building. The leased premises included a common area immediately in front of shopfronts forming the façade of the ground floor of the building. The PRC Patent Law was first promulgated in 1984 and has since been amended twice, in 1992 and 2000. Last week, on December 27, 2008, China passed the Third Amendment to the PRC Patent Law (the "New Patent Law"), which will become effective on October 1, 2009. China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has announced two new conditional clearance decisions under the country's Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) merger control system, meaning five deals have now been subject to conditional approval or outright prohibition since the law commenced. | 
