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With the 2012 Olympic games coming to London this summer, many companies are looking for ways to try and capitalise on the attention and popularity of this international spectacle. Olympic sponsorships and licensing opportunities are a big business and some companies spend millions of dollars for the right to associate themselves with the Olympics. Other companies, however, try to capitalise on the Olympics by engaging in guerrilla marketing, a strategy which can bring with it significant legal risks.

Taiwan Trademark Law has a post-registration opposition system, allowing any third party to file an opposition action against a registered trade mark during the three months after registration. Once the mark is revoked, the mark is deemed not to have been registered ab initio. Also according to the law, the Trademark Office may, ex officio or upon request, cancel a registered trade mark if the mark has not been put to use or its use has discontinued for three years without a justifiable reason.

The Cantonal Court of Zug recently rejected a request of a copyright owner for a provisional injunction prohibiting the sale of second-hand software specimens.

A Russian applicant filed a trade mark application on January 18 2010, in Classes 35 and 36, for a blue oval with 10 stars along the periphery and word elements Coast Line (stylised) and Real Estate in European Countries (in Cyrillics).

In December 2010 and January 2011, Szekely Domokos Szabolcs filed two national trade mark applications consisting of the figurative element showing an interdiction sign of a pregnant woman drinking:

On March 30 the Directive Council of the Portuguese PTMO (INPI) issued decisions 01/2012 and 02/2012 updating their internal procedures on supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), in order to reflect the recent decisions by the Court of Justice of the EU in Merck, Medeva, Georgetown, Yeda, Queensland and Daiichi.

On December 8 2011, the District Administrative Court dismissed an appeal by the holder of the word and design mark Sphinx, filed against the decision of the Polish Patent Office dismissing invalidation of the word and design trade mark Cleopatra.

On September 29 2008, Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi-Aventis, filed an opposition against the application by Getz Bros Philippines for the trademark Comaxin, covering pharmaceutical products for the treatment of infections in the upper and lower respiratory tract, ENT, skin and soft tissue, gut infections, osteomylitis, septcoemia, peritonitis and post-op infections in class 5. Sanofi Pasteur claimed that Getz's Comaxin mark was confusingly similar with its own Combaxim mark registered in 2007, covering pharmaceutical preparations in the form of pediatric vaccines.

According to the Norwegian domain name policy, only companies registered in the Norwegian Register of Legal Entities may register .no domain names. For foreign companies, the most common solution for fulfilling local presence requirements is to register a Norwegian branch office.

In 2006 the New Zealand Domain Name Commission, the body that administers .nz domain names, established a dispute resolution procedure.