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  • On July 8 2011, the decree on the oppositions to Italian trade marks and international trade marks designating Italy was finally published in the Italian Official Gazette. So it will at last be possible to file an administrative trade mark opposition.
  • Hatikvah, literally The Hope, is the Israeli National Anthem. It relates to the 2000-year-old hope of the Jews to be a free, sovereign nation in Israel.
  • Indonesian Law 14 /2001, Article 23 paragraph (1), states that: "If an Application is filed by a person other than the Inventor, the application must be furnished with a statement with adequate supporting evidence that he is entitled to the said invention".
  • The Indian Patents Act, 1970 only prescribes civil remedies against acts of infringement. However, in a recent incident, criminal action has been initiated against a textile company for the alleged infringement of two highly controversial patents dealing with laser marking technology.
  • In a recent judgment from the Athens Full Member Court of First Instance, the court reaffirmed its position that the TRIPs agreement is directly applicable in Greece and prevails over the provisions of the EPC.
  • If the EPO considers that a European patent application fails to comply with the EPC such that a search for the European Search Report (ESR) cannot be carried out, a communication under Rule 63(1) EPC is issued. It may be triggered if for example a clarity objection under Article 84, an objection under Article 76 regarding a divisional application, an objection under Article 123(2) or an objection under Article 53c relating to exceptions to patentability is issued.
  • The function of the EPO Boards of Appeal is to review decisions from divisions of first instance (the examining or opposition division). The EPO appeal procedure is not designed to be a complete review of a case ab initio, and the options for introducing new arguments, claim amendments and new evidence are limited.
  • The new Patent Licensing Contract Recordal Measures came into effect on August 1 2011, replacing the old Patent Licensing Contract Administration Measures.
  • Previous articles described how The Wayback Machine (TWM, www.archive.org) may be used to establish a date of public availability for a particular internet page, which may be useful in legal proceedings. These articles also discussed a pitfall when dating information from a page which uses frames. This article discusses another pitfall, which relates to the use of objects in a page.
  • A merchant (not related to the firm Puma) in the perfume market sued a competitor for infringement of Puma's trade mark by its use of a Jungle Man logo. Puma's trade mark has been used for perfumes on the Austrian market through sales by means of its website. The plaintiff sued for trade mark infringement on the basis of Trade Mark Law and on the Law Against Unfair Competition for misleading consumers by use of a confusingly similar sign.