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Secondary evidence can play a vital role in patent litigation.

Biotechnology

Authorities unveil new trade mark measures.

The Romanian Law no 84/1998 on Trade Marks and Geographical Indications introduces major changes in the conditions of extinction of trade marks rights.

In Mexico when someone seeks protection for a title of a periodical publication, a Mexican intellectual property counsel should recommend obtaining copyright as well as trade mark protection as trade mark protection only will not suffice. The Mexican Copyright Law recognizes sui generis protection for titles of publications including magazines, heads of newspapers, newspapers, pamphlets, supplements and guides. The Law also recognizes other types of titles of publications, however for the purposes of this brief they need not be included.

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.

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.

Intellectual property owners could slash more than £50,000 ($80,500) from their costs in a UK High Court patent trial following a May decision by the Lord Chancellor to grant patent agents certain litigation rights.