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  • Russia's trade mark community has intensified pressure for tougher legislation to crack down on counterfeiting despite several legislative changes in recent months. A new Code of Administrative Offences, which comes into force on July 1, strengthens civil penalties for trade mark infringement, including the unprecedented provision for the seizure of counterfeit goods.
  • Research into the human genome has opened up the possibility of collecting, publishing and even patenting individual genes. Andreas Schrell and Nils Heide explain how a new law will regulate the gene database in Estonia
  • Monster.com, Unilever and Lucent have all recently suffered from the alleged theft of trade secrets. With more online companies and a greater dependence on electronic methods of storage and transfer of information, corporate espionage is set to become a major threat, reports Tabitha Parker
  • John Olsen With four months to go before the latest changes to the Nice Classification come into effect, concern is growing about the impact of the reforms on existing trade marks.
  • It was the year of the dot-com bubble, and IP owners like everyone else were obsessed with the net. James Nurton and Tabitha Parker analyze some of 2000’s most interesting cases
  • Companies working in the field of biotechnology could face limited protection for their inventions following the introduction of a revised patent law in Germany. Harald von Campenhausen outlines the pitfalls and how rights owners can best avoid them
  • The manner in which corporations develop and manage their IP software has changed considerably over the past few years. Long gone are the days when the focus was simply filing data and managing due dates. Today there is a more proactive approach to IP management, which, in turn, has set new standards and challenges for IP professionals.
  • The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has dealt a further blow to weak trade marks. In a ruling on September 15, the Court upheld the rejection of an application for a figurative mark comprising the word BioID. written in a bold Arial typeface for goods in classes 9, 38 and 42.
  • Herb Wamsley, executive director, Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO)
  • On June 21 2005, the Secretary of Health issued Administrative Order Number 2005-0016, entitled General Policies and Guidelines Governing Brand Names of Products for Registration with the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD). BFAD officials are thought to believe that IP issues relating to brand names have impeded their ability to implement effectively the misbranding provisions of Republic Act 3720, known as the Food, Drugs and Devices and Cosmetics Act. The most important features of the new Order are: