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BRAZIL: Getting Closer to Madrid
Recent announcements from the Brazilian National Institute for Industrial Property (INPI) and an approval on April 9, 2013 by the Brazilian Federal Government’s Forei
The Chinese government has published a 10-year patent strategy in Beijing
China State Intellectual Property Office held a press conference in Beijing on November 11 and officially released the "National Patent Development Strategy (2011-2020)".Gan Shaoning, Deputy Director of SIPO said, the "National Patent Development Strategy
Consumer goods smuggling rises in Ho Chi Minh City in the first six months of this year
HCM CITY — The market management bureau in HCM City reported last Friday that the illegal trading, transportation and storage of smuggled goods had increased in the first six months of this year compared to the same period last year.
Taking the fight against the counterfeiters seriously
Anyone working against counterfeiters will surely have faced the dilemma of whether to react to a trademark infringement, when there is limited hope of accomplishing any real results.
Copyright System Must “Adapt Or Perish,” WIPO Director Says
The traditional copyright system’s balance for encouraging yet controlling access to copyrighted works in order to extract value for them has met with a destructive force in the internet that it cannot overcome without changing itself, the head of t
Trade mark changes under way in Taiwan
A set of draft amendments designed to strengthen trade mark protection and harmonise with international standards are under discussion in Taiwan
Why India is sceptical about ACTA
India has no plans to join the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, as the country’s top IP official explained in a recent interview
Near-final ACTA draft published
The latest, near-final draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) sets out basic standards for enforcement – but does not go as far as many critics feared
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.