Search results for

Albert Terry of Griffith Hack discusses how the Bavaria case addressed the geographical significance issue in Australia

IBM does it, so do Sun and Google. Even Microsoft is making positive noises about open source. Whether as a software developer or a software user, you need to understand open source and why it has the potential to change the way you handle IP. James Nurton reports

With TRIPs compliance, legislative reform and a booming technology market, 2000 was a busy year for patent owners in the emerging markets. MIP writers reveal the results of our annual survey and profile some of the interesting stories from the past year

Merger mania has hit the life sciences industry. And it is all because of patents, or rather lack of them. James Nurton examines the role of intellectual property in pharmaceuticals deals

In a landmark decision, the House of Lords has invalidated Amgen's key patent for erythropoietin. James Nurton examines the impact of the ruling

In an effort to encourage low-level inventions, Australia has introduced an “innovation patent” with a lower inventive threshold than standard patents. Anthony Selleck analyzes the the new tool

In the April 1998 issue of MIP we presented comments about the development of IP rights for the first five years of the existence of the Czech Industrial Property Office. 1998 figures show a continuity in all fields of IP rights. The number of new patent applications is still increasing, utility models and designs are more or less steady and trade mark applications are slowly decreasing. What is quite important from the internal point of view is the fact that for the first time not only since 1993, but since 1990, the number of domestic applicants went up slightly. Figures showing the number of trade mark registrations prove that the backlog from previous years has already been overcome. When comparing the number of filings with the number of registrations, it can be clearly seen that registrations more or less correspond to filings as we must bear in mind that some applications do not mature into registrations due to objections both from the part of the Office and from third parties.

For three centuries, Amsterdam has been a centre of global trade and artistic creativity. As the INTA prepares to hold its annual conference in Europe for the first time, Ingrid Hering visited the Netherlands to investigate the Dutch approach to branding

Brazil has thrown off its poor reputation for protecting trade marks. Rodrigo Caiuby Novaes, of Clarke, Modet & Co in Rio de Janeiro, reveals how the new industrial property law has transformed registration practice

On February 28 2003 the Singapore government introduced a number of fiscal incentives in the 2003 budget to make Singapore an even more attractive location for IP rights holders.