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New Law on Made in Italy label

A new law regulating the marketing of textile, leather and footwear goods – known as the Reguzzoni-Versace Law – was published in the Official Gazette on April 21 2010 and will enter into force on October 1 2010. This new provision creates a system of obligatory labelling for goods in the textile, leather and footwear sectors.

Managing IP Correspondent, May 31 2010

Patent rights lost due to incomplete reinstatement

Patent applications that become provisionally abandoned, for example due to failure to pay a maintenance fee or respond to a requisition, can be reinstated in Canada. However, as a recent decision illustrates, all of the requirements for reinstatement must be carefully observed; otherwise, the patent applications can become irrevocably abandoned.

Managing IP Correspondent, May 31 2010

New opportunities to remove trade marks

The recent case of Health World Ltd v Shin-Sun Australia Pty Ltd [2010] HCA 13 has expanded who can remove trade marks under the Australian system.

Managing IP Correspondent, May 31 2010

Your guide to effective enforcement

As IP litigation increases, Nandana Indananda and Suebsiri Taweepon of Tilleke & Gibbins discuss enforcement in Thailand’s IP&IT Court, focusing on preliminary injunctions and Anton Piller orders

Managing IP Correspondent, May 31 2010

Asia’s GI evangelist

The food and crafts of south-east Asia are famous across the world. Peter Ollier spoke with Stephane Passeri of the ASEAN Project on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (ECAP III) about how these products are being registered as geographical indications

Managing IP Correspondent, May 31 2010

Unified procedures to simplify IP cases

On January 1 2011 Switzerland will for the first time in its history put into force unified civil procedure rules applying to the whole country. To date, each of the 26 cantons apply different procedural statutes.

Managing IP Correspondent, May 31 2010

Changes in declaratory judgment standards

After receiving notice of an allegation of infringement from a trade mark owner, the receiving party is often put in the unenviable position of having to make a unilateral determination to either cease the activity at issue or continue with conduct that potentially violates a third party's rights while it waits to see if formal legal action is initiated.

Managing IP Correspondent, May 31 2010

Tobacco trade marks under attack in Australia

Peter Ollier reports on the Australian government’s plans to introduce a hardline packaging regime for cigarettes, and how the tobacco industry plans to oppose it

Managing IP Correspondent, May 31 2010

How Unilever outsourced 160,000 marks

On January 1 last year Unilever outsourced its trade mark prosecution work. Almost 18 months on, Katrina Burchell, the company's general trade mark counsel, told Emma Barraclough about the experience

Managing IP Correspondent, April 30 2008

INTA experience shows value of amicus briefs

Isabel Davies reveals how INTA decides when to file amicus briefs in trade mark-related cases and, below, INTA subcommittee chairs describe the impact of INTA submissions in different regions

Managing IP Correspondent, November 01 2005

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