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How to cancel a trade mark for lack of use

Among the causes of action included in the Mexican Trade Mark Law to cancel a trade mark registration, a cancellation action based on lack of use is available. Under the provisions of this law, if a mark is not used by its owner on the goods or services for which it was registered within three years, cancellation of the registration would proceed. This three year period is counted backwards from the filing of the cancellation claim.

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 2001

IN BRIEF: AMERICAS

Canada: WIPO has transferred 31 domain names to the Canadian government, including CanadaCouncil.com and CanadianCustoms.com, after it found that they were registered in bad faith with the intention to resell them. The panel also heard that the sites were used to redirect internet users seeking Canadian government web sites to sites owned by the registrant.

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 2001

Asia IP Focus, India:IP becomes the buzzword

Following controversies such as the Basmati patent case, IP has achieved a high profile in India. Pravin Anand, of Anand and Anand in Delhi, examines some of the positive developments which have arisen from the new awareness

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 2001

How to restructure technology-rich companies

As many technology-rich companies face economic problems, they are looking to their intellectual property to raise money. Zack Clement, Johnathan Bolton and Carmen R Eggleston analyze the role of IP rights and licences in financial restructuring

Managing IP Correspondent, June 30 2001

Company halts trade secrets theft

Flairis Technology (Flairis), a local contract manufacturer, has obtained a court injunction to stop four of its ex-staff from using the company's trade secrets after quitting to join a competitor.

Managing IP Correspondent, June 30 2001

Filing an opposition in Romania

According to the Romanian Trade Mark Law no 84, art 23 and the Regulation for implementing the Law, rule 19, within three months of the date of publication of a trade mark, the owner of an earlier mark or of a well-known mark, the holder of an earlier right in a likeness or surname, a protected geographical indication or a protected industrial design or any other concerned person, may file an opposition to a published mark with the State Office for Inventions and Trade Marks.

Managing IP Correspondent, June 30 2001

Protecting business methods in Norway

Business methods. What is or isn’t patentable? As countries turn to the EPO for direction Tom Ekeberg of Onsagers in Oslo decribes the efforts underway to make the distinction clear

Managing IP Correspondent, June 30 2001

New Patent Law unveiled

Paraguay’s new patent law is effective as of January this year. Cristóbal González, an attorney at the Patent Department of BERKEMEYER Attorneys & Counselors in Asunción, examines some contentious aspects of the new legislation

Managing IP Correspondent, June 30 2001

Russia:Who owns your trade mark in Russia?

Rübba Palmos, of Nevinpat St Petersburg, reveals how one Russian company is holding trade mark owners to ransom thanks to a loophole in the country’s law

Managing IP Correspondent, June 30 2001

Mexico:How to protect designs of containers

Oscar M Becerril, of Becerril, Coca & Becerril, SC in Mexico City, reviews the various options available for protecting container designs in Mexico

Managing IP Correspondent, June 30 2001

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