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Firm names and commercial emblems are included in the category of industrial property rights in Romania. Along with trade marks, they make up the main distinctive commercial signs.

Apple Computer has won world-wide injunctions stopping the manufacture and sale of iMac lookalike Windows systems.

The new Woolf rules on litigation in the UK emphasize pre-action negotiations. Gerard Cronin, of Llewelyn Zietman in London, examines the tension this has created with the Brussels and Lugano Conventions

Patent rights require that enforcement be swift and efficient. Carlos Octavio Mitelman, of Obligado & Cia Lda in Buenos Aires, explains how the law in Argentina fulfils these criteria

Protection against domain name pirates has taken a great leap forward with the US Anticybersquatting Act and ICANN’s new arbitration policy. Richard Lehv and Ronald E Wiggins say life should be a lot tougher for cybersquatters now

Community Trade Mark applicants now have the benefit of a large number of decided cases. In the first of two articles, John R Olsen reveals the lessons from the Opposition Tribunal

The Benelux Trade Marks Office has been forced to change its policy on registering colour marks. It is now possible to register a colour as a trade mark and to restrain third parties from using the chosen colour.

In a final report on March 17, the WTO has given its ruling on claims brought by the EU against Canada's patent regime.

If a major corporation appends its famous house mark to a registered mark owned by another party, is there a conflict? In the appeal case of Registrar of Trade Marks v Woolworths Ltd, the Full Federal of Australia, by a margin of two to one, allowed an application for WOOLWORTHS METRO to be accepted, notwithstanding several earlier METRO marks each of which related to similar goods or services. The Court, at trial and appeal, rejected the Registrar's contention that the marks were deceptively similar.

Recently, as part of the national drive towards becoming a regional IT and e-learning hub, a research and education centre at the National University of Singapore known as the Institute of Systems Science (ISS) launched what it claims to be the world´ s first virtual institute. The ISS took about one and a half years to develop the necessary software. It is intended that the virtual institute will serve, among other things, to re-train graduates for the growing infocomm industry. Plans are also being made to offer courses to local students and to provide courses in languages other than English for students in other countries in the region.