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The law requires the use of a registered trade mark in Ukraine. To maintain a registration, a trade mark must be used in respect of the goods and/or services for which it has been registered. The definition of the effective use of a trade mark has been detailed to comprise sale, offering for sale, import and export of the goods bearing a trade mark. Otherwise the registration becomes vulnerable to cancellation upon request by a third party.

In the previous issue of Managing Intellectual Property, the implementation of the Bolar exemption in Ireland was discussed. It was stated that the exemption in Ireland only applies to experimental activities for generic drugs, excluding new medicinal products.

Artists' resale right schemes, often also called droit de suite, have been a part of the law of a number of European countries since the 1920s. However, the disparity between those national systems that did recognize a resale right and the lack of a resale right in other member states prompted the European Commission to adopt harmonizing measures in the form of EU Directive 2001/84/EC on the resale rights of authors of original works of art. The object of the Directive is to confer the same benefits on authors/creators of graphic or plastic art, such as pictures, collages, paintings, sculptures and engravings, as other creators of artistic works who benefit from successive exploitations of their works. The Directive was passed on September 27 2001 and member states had until January 1 2006 to transpose it into domestic law.

Shahnaz Mahmud, New York

Prodrugs play an important role for the pharmaceutical industry, but patenting them in Mexico has proved difficult. Victor Garrido and Heriberto Lopez of Becerril, Coca & Becerril examine how it can be done

Mexican trade mark examiners have recently been over-strict in classification and in finding marks to be descriptive. Alonso Camargo and Guillermo Ballesteros of Olivares & Cia argue that their practice disadvantages applicants and should be changed

The EU has been working with ASEAN governments to boost IP protection in the region. Niclas Morey, director of the EC-ASEAN Intellectual Property Rights Co-operation Programme, ECAP II, explains more

Robert Sanders, an IP Academy research scholar and partner with Global IP Services LLP, explains how the Academy's Global Forum on Intellectual Property has encouraged mutual respect and understanding

Applying for a patent for computer software or business methods can create problems for IP owners and examiners alike. Ignacio S Sapalo and Neptali L Bulilan of Sapalo Velez Bundang & Bulilan compare the rules in the US, Europe and the Philippines

Enforcement of IP rights is normally based on traditional measures in Mexico. But, argue Jesus Molina and Sergio De Alva of Molina Salgado & De Alva, there is another powerful weapon available to IP owners