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April 30, 2012
Toshiaki Iimura, one of the most experienced IP judges in Japan, has been appointed chief judge of the IP High Court in Tokyo
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April 26, 2012
The Asia-Pacific region is the first to celebrate World IP Day. Peter Leung in Hong Kong rounds up some of the activities
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April 20, 2012
Oswald Schroeder owes his job to a mouse
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April 11, 2012
How can IP owners and regulators respond to the unprecedented attack on IP rights seen in the past few months?
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March 21, 2012
It was a car that for many encapsulates 1980s aspirations. But now the makers of the Golf GTi have been told that they cannot stop Suzuki from registering a trade mark for Swift GTi
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March 15, 2012
Hogan Lovells won the inaugural global IP firm of the year award at tonight’s Managing IP Awards Dinner in London
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March 12, 2012
International trade marks filed using the Madrid System grew by 6.5% in 2011 to a record 42,270, amid signs that European brand owners’ strategies are changing
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February 02, 2012
An Asian telecoms company is now only the fourth brand owner to publicly declare an intention to apply for a new gTLD after saying yesterday that it wants .starhub
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January 27, 2012
Free access: The nominations for Managing IP’s Global Awards 2012 have been announced
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September 30, 2011
Representatives from ACTA’s negotiating countries will gather for a signing ceremony in Japan tomorrow, though several will not be able to actually sign
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August 16, 2011
With five months until the application process for new gTLDs opens, Managing IP spoke to Japanese electronics company Hitachi, which looks set to apply for a new domain
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May 18, 2011
Peter Ollier looks at the challenge of coordinating INTA’s work in an area as diverse as the Asia-Pacific region.
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May 17, 2011
Although the epicenter of the earthquake that struck Japan on March 11 was more than 500 km from Tokyo, it was so powerful that the headquarters of the Japan Patent Office (JPO) were heavily shaken
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May 16, 2011
Trademark owners are investing heavily in the growing economies of East Asia, Oceania and Greater China. Erica Poon provides a country-by-country guide.
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April 07, 2011
Managing IP presented more than 60 awards to the leading firms in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America at the annual global awards dinner in London last night. Here are the winners:
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March 28, 2011
Rugby fans can look forward to seeing the All Blacks perform the famous Ka Mate haka before World Cup matches this summer after a landmark deal was struck with a Maori tribe
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March 16, 2011
In 1923 a fire caused by the great Kanto earthquake destroyed the Japan Patent Office, but the new building survived last week’s tremor and examiners are working as normal
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February 10, 2011
A series of leaked cables have exposed the conflicts behind the negotiations for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
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December 20, 2010
The US, Japanese and EU trade mark offices are to discuss cooperation in three key areas at their next meeting.
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December 20, 2010
At a meeting of the trilateral trade mark offices – USPTO, JPO and OHIM – the former two agreed to look at joining OHIM’s project for an international database of trade marks