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Internet entrepreneurs beware. Registering a domain name does not give you an automatic right to the equivalent trade mark.

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Due to a substantial general increase in IP activity - increasing numbers of national patent applications etc the need for skilled and well-educated personnel in this field has been continuously increasing particularly during the past few years. This goes for the Swedish Patent Office as well as for industry and private IP practitioners. In order to take care of innovations in industry, one of the best ways is to have in-house skilled IP experts who can promote and recognize internal inventive activity.

Silhouette has bestowed on a trade mark owner a parasitic right to interfere with the distribution of goods which bears little or no relationship to the proper function of the trade mark right.

On May 4 1999, a new Act (14/1999) on Taxes and Public Prices for services provided by the Nuclear Security Council was adopted. This Act contains, among other things, the necessary provisions in order to adapt Spanish legislation to the Trade mark Rights Treaty and Regulation, which was ratified by Spain on March 17 1999.

Here are some of the highlights of amendments to the Patent Law currently being presented to the Diet: (1) Shortening of the time period for filing a request for examination (Sec 48ter(1)). The time period for filing a request for examination is to be revised to three years from the filing date instead of the seven years as provided for in Section 48ter(1). The proposed provision is to be applied to an application filed on or after October 1 2001. The seven year time limit though provided for in the current law is still to be applied to an application pending on the above effective date of October 1 2001.

Wasted opportunties The last few weeks have seen domain names take centre stage with a major WIPO report on the subject and the liberalization of the registration process. But, Ralph Cunningham discovers, not everybody is happy

In 1974, the office of the United States Trade Representative was mandated to identify and pursue countries which did not offer adequate protection to US right owners.

Since Estonia started EU accession negotiations in April 1998, one of the main tasks has been to harmonize Estonian legislation with EU Law. Although in the beginning of 1998 the Estonian Trade Mark Law was extensively amended to comply with the Harmonization Directive 89/104 and CTM Regulation No 40/94, there are still remarkable differences.

Japan’s Supreme Court has just given the go-ahead to generics to use patented inventions for testing.