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  • IP rights are critical for companies in the financial services sector - but are often overlooked when business is booming. Catriona Smith, Nicola Dagg, Mark Ridgway and Kathryn Carlile explain the importance of assessing the danger that IP threats pose
  • OHIM's second user satisfaction survey identified a number of areas where the European trade mark and design office needs to improve its service to users - starting with the accessibility of examiners and information provided by the office. James Nurton reports
  • By spending a little extra time preparing a patent application, an experienced patentee can draft the specifications and claims in a manner that may later enable a court to award maximum damages in view of the Entire Market Value Rule. Brett Alten, Glenn Kubota and Ryan Scoville explain how
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  • The German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) recently issued a decision (Haftetikett), which significantly increases the legal burden on an employer to effectively claim a patent right originating from an employee's invention.
  • Before the Linkage Regulation in Mexico, the health authorities granted marketing authorizations for pharmaceuticals when the applicant complied with the regulatory requirements, without reviewing possible violations of patent rights. In short, marketing authorizations granted in the past for patented pharmaceutical products to non-authorized third parties were government authorizations to infringe patents.
  • Canada is not unique in its concern over increasing prevalence and diversity of counterfeit goods. The OECD recently reported counterfeiting in virtually all economies with a cost estimated at 5% to 7% of world trade, up from 2% to 4% 15 years ago. Canada is, however, a jurisdiction in which enforcement is difficult. This is probably attributable primarily to the fact that, unlike the United States, Canadian Border Service personnel are not mandated to search for and seize counterfeit goods.
  • In October 2006, Senator Marina Riofrio proposed a bill to the National Congress aiming to introduce into the Argentine trade mark legislation a specific regulation for collective and certification trade marks. While these are not forbidden by current provisions, they are not expressly regulated in national legislation.
  • Brand pharmaceutical companies sometimes agree to share profits from their patented drugs with generic manufacturers to keep rival products off the market. James Walsh and Lisa Huett consider the legality of these so-called reverse payments under Australian law in light of increasing attacks from antitrust authorities overseas