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  • Employment issues can have a big impact on IP ownership in the US. Sanford E Warren and Todd Landis examine what precautions employers should take to safeguard their rights
  • Thanks to parallel imports, distinctiveness and retail goods, it has been another busy year for Europe’s trade mark courts. Jeremy Phillips reviews the most significant cases of 1999
  • Protection against domain name pirates has taken a great leap forward with the US Anticybersquatting Act and ICANN’s new arbitration policy. Richard Lehv and Ronald E Wiggins say life should be a lot tougher for cybersquatters now
  • Community Trade Mark applicants now have the benefit of a large number of decided cases. In the first of two articles, John R Olsen reveals the lessons from the Opposition Tribunal
  • The practice of registering famous marks has become a national sport in Indonesia and it shows no signs of abating. In a special report, Emily Downes tracks down the pirates – and their advisers
  • As a survey reveals that IP enforcement in Russia is as big a problem as tax and customs, rights owners are turning to the courts for support. But Emily Downes finds that there is an urgent need for improved enforcement
  • The Benelux Trade Marks Office has been forced to change its policy on registering colour marks. It is now possible to register a colour as a trade mark and to restrain third parties from using the chosen colour.
  • ICANN's new system for settling domain name disputes is already making an impact. In just a couple of months, four victories have been scored by trade mark owners seeking the cyberspace rights to their trade name.
  • In a final report on March 17, the WTO has given its ruling on claims brought by the EU against Canada's patent regime.
  • If a major corporation appends its famous house mark to a registered mark owned by another party, is there a conflict? In the appeal case of Registrar of Trade Marks v Woolworths Ltd, the Full Federal of Australia, by a margin of two to one, allowed an application for WOOLWORTHS METRO to be accepted, notwithstanding several earlier METRO marks each of which related to similar goods or services. The Court, at trial and appeal, rejected the Registrar's contention that the marks were deceptively similar.