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Judicial protection of patent rights Amended IP laws and regulations in China have increased the opportunities for rights owners to enforce their patents. Zhongqi Zhou, of CCPIT, argues that the new framework provides a strong foundation for enforcement in the courts

India's new Trade Marks Act provides protection of an international standard. Confusion exists, however, about the constitution of the new appellate board system to deal with the appeals of trade mark registry decisions, explains Ranjan Narula

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Paul Twomey is the first non-American to be appointed president and chief executive officer of ICANN. Left with the legacy of radical reform plans, Twomey shares with Sam Mamudi his views about the organization's performance and the challenges ahead

The following is an extract from the Romanian Government IP Strategy.

As from January 1 2004 essential changes will be introduced in the Polish structure of jurisdiction and two Acts will come into force - the Act on the Structure of Common Courts of Law and the Act on Administrative Procedure. Administrative jurisdiction will be a two-tiered one. Up to now the only court in control of administrative issues has been the Supreme Administrative Court. As from next year there will also be regional administrative courts. The necessity to introduce two-tiered administrative jurisdiction derives from the provisions of the new Constitution of the Republic of Poland adopted in 1997. These legal changes will exert substantial influence on issues related to industrial property protection in Poland, including trade marks. Along with these Acts entering into force, the Law on Industrial Property that applies, among others, to trade mark protection will also change.

In a judgment handed down in the case of Class International v SmithKline Beecham on 28 August 2003, the Court of Appeal at The Hague posed six preliminary questions for the ECJ. Our firm handles this case on behalf of GlaxoSmithKline.

The Malaysian government in its efforts to encourage Malaysian industries to conduct more R&D and to promote Malaysian products and services overseas has introduced several incentives in the 2004 budget. Some of the salient features in this respect are:

Users of the patent system want change, but politically there are still tensions between Europe and the US, and between the positions of developed and developing countries, argues Ivan B Ahlert