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Hatikvah, literally The Hope, is the Israeli National Anthem. It relates to the 2000-year-old hope of the Jews to be a free, sovereign nation in Israel.

A guide to filing, protecting and enforcing your trade mark in Canada. By Tracy Corneau of Borden Ladner Gervais

In an exclusive interview, the CEO of the Publishers Association in the UK discusses copyright reform, Google Books and why the Hargreaves Review undermines rights owners

The internet is fast becoming a powerful marketing tool and likewise a knowledge commodity. Companies, especially multinationals, tend to market themselves by using the internet. To be more visible, companies formulate their web addresses with their trade name. IP protection in this sense is accorded by domain name registration, for the registration of an exclusive web address.

Amendments to the Federal Contentious Administrative Proceedings Law (FCAPL) come in force on August 8 2011, establishing (i) the "via sumaria", a fast-track venue for administrative appeals and (ii) the beginning of operations for the online prosecution system.

It is established practice in the Netherlands that the extent of damage that occurs as a consequence of a tort need not be proven to the hilt. It is sufficient to show convincingly that damage might have occurred. It is then up to a court to judge the extent of damage. For this, the court may determine the difference between the actual situation (the consequence of the tort) and a hypothetical situation occurring when the tort had not taken place. The court is not bound to the normal rules for providing facts and evidence.

In New Zealand, one of our largest breweries, DB Breweries Limited, owns the trade mark for Radler for beer.

European firm Taylor Wessing has launched a Brazil Group, which will be run internationally and led by German partner Jan Curschman and Brazilian M&A lawyer Daniel Coelho Moreira.

The Norwegian Marketing Control Act offers additional protection to an IP owner, based on the legal ground that a trade mark or product imitation may constitute an infringement of commercial rights. The protection is offered even when no IP rights are registered in Norway.

The Supreme Administrative Court, on May 31 2011, dismissed an earlier judgment of the District Administrative Court in Warsaw in a case resulting from a complaint filed by Tiffany Broadway of Texpol Corporation over a decision of the Polish Patent Office cancelling the Tiffany trade mark, and returned the case to the District Administrative Court for re-examination.