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As of July 1 2010 a national representative for an applicant who is not a resident in Norway is no longer required. The earlier requirements for a national representative set out in The Norwegian Patents Act, Design Act and Trademark Act have been deleted. The right of being represented by a national representative is now regulated by the Public Administration Act, Section 12. The Norwegian Patents Act, Design Act and Trademark Act now provide a requirement of a correspondence address of the applicant or right holder, opponent or similar. If the applicant or right holder is represented by a national representative, the correspondence address is the address of the representative. The Norwegian Industrial Property Office will forward all communications to the correspondence address by regular mail. If the mail delivery of the communication fails due to errors in the correspondence address, any term set out in the communication will still continue to run. A notice of this communication will however be made public in the Norwegian Gazette.

International Non-Proprietary Names (INNs) are names for pharmaceutical substances or active pharmaceutical ingredients recognised as public property. They are treated as generic names by international authorities, with around 8,000 published at present.

Credit Agricole filed four oppositions before the Trademarks Administrative Commission against national applications filed by a Greek banking Company, consisting of the words Green Bank together with a tree device and Green Banking with the same device, together with the name of their applicant (a Greek bank). The oppositions were based on Credit Agricole's CTM registration for Green Bank.

Qing Ge of Liu, Shen & Associates considers potential problems for patent owners as a result of the changes introduced by the new juridical interpretation

The ITU held its 2010 Plenipotentiary Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico from October 4 to 22. Members set out the Union's work programme for the next four years.

The .de registry Denic sunrise for domains containing the German letter ß, or “ss”, launches on November 16

The Icann Board had its latest meeting yesterday and the decisions stemming from it should help to clarify the possibility of the new gTLD programme going ahead

Icann’s IP and business constituencies emphasised the need for a predictable UDRP system in their comments on a new UDRP application

The Icann chair has written to INTA to say researchers working on the next economic report on new gTLDs will reach out to the Association

Coca-Cola has accused Pepsi of infringing its contour bottle trade mark in a case that will test the boundaries of 3D trade mark law in Australia