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Singapore has a reputation as a business-friendly haven for IP owners. But IP managers at three multinational companies explain how the country's law-abiding reputation can also give them transhipment headaches

Franck Soutoul, Jean-Philippe Bresson and Sophie Normand analyze the specific approach of French courts on the similarity of clothing products and consider the consequences for your trade mark strategy

The state of implementation of the EU Directive on the enforcement of IP rights varies across Europe, although progress has been made in virtually all jurisdictions. Hub. Harmeling and Bas Berghuisvan Woortman provide an update on the most significant markets

Quality of search and examination is top of the list of demands from most patent applicants. MIP asked EPO President Alain Pompidou what the Office is doing to ensure that standards are maintained

Emma Barraclough, London and Brussels

Shahnaz Mahmud, London

A company that has a trade mark filing in place in a foreign jurisdiction has multiple options when considering an expansion of its trade mark rights into the United States. Specifically, US trade mark law provides several mechanisms pursuant to which a foreign trade mark owner can use the priority established by a foreign trade mark filing when making a filing in the United States.

Law 23/2006, of July 7, which amends the consolidation of the 1996 Copyright Act, was published on July 8 2006 in the Official Gazette of the Spanish state.

The issue of improving the Russian legislation in the field of intellectual property has long been on the agenda. Ever since the new versions of IP laws were adopted in 2002-2003 (the Russian Copyright law was amended in 2004) there was much discussion about further improvements. In fact, the amendments of three years ago did not solve all the problems though they did make some good patches over the legislative gaps. The work continued and by 2006 there were prepared numerous proposals for the patent and trade mark laws.

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines, IPOPhil, officially launched its new service called TM Online on April 25 2006. After encountering some initial problems, TM Online became available to the public in May 2006. This project is not new. As early as November 26 2004, IPOPhil issued Office Order No. 25 Series of 2004, amended by Office Order No. 42, providing for the rules on the trade mark electronic filing system. However, its implementation was deferred following demand from practitioners for clearer rules. The following are the requirements for using TM Online: