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  • MP3.com receives Universal condemnation
  • Compliance with the TRIPs Agreement has prompted a revamping of IP protection in Malaysia. Ella Cheong & G Mirandah explain the details of five laws passed this year
  • The conditions for obtaining a patent registration in any country of the Andean Community are: novelty (not in the state of the art), inventive level (non-obviousness) and industrial application. Article 2 of Andean Decision 344 (enforceable in Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia) sets out the conditions for novelty which have given rise to discussions in view of the lack of clarity of its writing.
  • Authur Fisher, vice president, IP law, Nortel Networks
  • The Registered Designs Bill was introduced in Parliament on June 30 2000 and subsequently passed on August 25 2000 as the Industrial Designs Act 2000 ("the new Act" ) . The Implementing Rules however have yet to be published.
  • For two decades, Canada has lagged behind its major trading partners in patenting higher life forms. Steve Garland and Kathy Lipic explain how this situation has changed, following a landmark Federal Court decision
  • On the eve of its implementation in the national judicial systems (July 31 2000), European Directive 98/44/EC of July 6 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions has led to heated discussions in the Netherlands. Earlier, on October 19 1998, the Dutch government had already requested the ECJ to declare the directive invalid, but no judgment has been rendered with respect to this request yet. Not until June this year rather late was the actual implementation of the directive finally discussed in the Dutch parliament. During these discussions, it turned out that a majority of parliament objected to the implementation of the directive, largely because the directive would give room for the patenting of living organisms. This would be contrary to fundamental ethical choices made in the Netherlands.
  • Australia A L 1 (3) Griffith Hack Solicitors/Griffith Hack Sydney ? ? 2 (1) Davies Collison Cave/Davies Collison Cave Solicitors Sydney ? ? 3 (2) Spruson & Ferguson/Sprusons Solicitors Sydney ? ? 4 (7) Phillips Ormonde & Fitzpatrick Melbourne 5 (5) Watermark Hawthorn ? 6 (6) Freehills/Freehills Carter Smith Beadle Melbourne ? ? 7 (4) McMaster Oberin Arthur Robinson Hedderwicks/Arthur Robinson &Hedderwicks Melbourne ? ? 8 (-) Callinan Lawrie Kew ? 9 (-) Blake Dawson Waldron Melbourne ? 10 (-) Wray & Associates Perth ?
  • The Law no 255 on the protection of new plant varieties entered in force on April 1 1999. This law provided for a system of protection of new plant varieties based on variety patents and it repealed the provisions on plant varieties enclosed in the Law no 64/1991 on patents of inventions.
  • As investment into Latin America increases, protecting famous trade marks becomes more important. Tony Ferguson compares the protection available in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Chile