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Laura Collada of Dumont considers the critical need for an effective opposition system as Mexico readies itself to accede to the Madrid Protocol

AIPPI asked Robin Rolfe to suggest how it could increase its membership and relevance. These were her biggest recommendations

EIP has hired mobile telecommunications specialist James Seymour (right) from Nokia.

How the private practice association is attempting to increase its relevance

A common objective of a brand owner when entering into a licensing agreement is to ensure that its licensee assumes all responsibility for manufacturing the licensed products and all liability for consequences as a result thereof. While the typical trade mark licence includes certain indemnification provisions aimed at ensuring that the licensor achieves this objective, a few recent court decisions have highlighted instances where such standard indemnification provisions do not sufficiently protect licensors. Such decisions reveal an emerging issue with respect to product liability that brand owners engaged in licensing their trade marks must pay careful attention to, namely the possibility that they will be held liable for injuries resulting from the use of a product made by its licensee even when the brand owner is not directly involved in either the manufacture or sale of the products.

A recent decision by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court has ended a 12-year battle between LEGO System and Mega Brands over the validity of Lego's three-dimensional building block trade mark registrations in Switzerland. The Supreme Court has now confirmed the nullity of Lego's respective trade mark registrations on grounds of technical necessity of the registered building block shapes.

David Paris explains how judicial reforms of damages law have shaped analysis of compensation in patent cases, and why such theories could soon spread to trade secrets and design patents cases

Europe’s Cooperation Fund promises to offer new tools to help trade mark and design users. With its suite of services going live this month, James Nurton visited Alicante to find out how the work is going

According to the Patent Law, where a statutory or designated deadline in a patent application or other patent-related procedures is not met, any belated attempts to further prosecute or take procedural actions will be refused unless the failure to meet the deadline is due to force majeure or other factors not attributable to the applicant. In view of such strict and inflexible stipulations, it is not unusual for patentees to lose their hard-earned rights simply through an oversight.