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Five areas for global patent reform
Years of deadlock in WIPO’s Standing Committee on the Law of Patents have been broken after members agreed to focus work on five substantive issues.
Rice maker overturns trade mark in Malaysia
A Malaysian court has invalidated a trade mark for a type of Indian rice in one of the first cases in the country to deal with geographical indications
Numeral marks held to be confusingly similar
In Companhia Muller de Bebidas v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) (Case T-472/08, September 3 2010), the General Court has reversed a decision of the Board of Appeal of OHIM in which the latter had found that there was no likelihood
PCT, Madrid and development top WIPO agenda
Delegates from WIPO member states will gather in Geneva at the end of this month for the annual General Assemblies – with a proposal to reduce PCT fees, reforms to the Madrid Protocol and a report into WIPO's working practices at the top of the agen
Avoiding China’s litigation time limits
Challenging jurisdiction could be an effective way for defendants to delay patent litigation in China, according to speakers at Managing IP’s Asia-Pacific IP Forum this week
An EU perspective on ACTA
Secretive negotiations are underway for an international anti-counterfeiting deal. But what will ACTA mean for Europe? Marlous Stal-Hilders of Nederlandsch Octrooibureau explains
How to deal with customs in Asia
Preparation, promotion and patience are three key requirements when working with Customs, according to speakers at the Asia-Pacific IP Forum
US report on China’s indigenous innovation slammed
A US International Trade Commission report that attacked China’s indigenous innovation policies has been criticised by IP practitioners in the country
Workshop on “Valuating intellectual property and technology transfer”
In two days of November 04- 05, 2010, in Hanoi Vietnam Office of Intellectual Property (VOIP) - Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) coordinated with ASEAN projects to protect Intellectual Property Rights (ECAP III) to organize the Workshop on &ldquo