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Argentine law, Section 31 of Law No 11,723 relating to copyright and related rights, establishes that:

In a series of recent cases, Australian Courts have substantially allowed the possibility of selling visually similar packaged products to those of famous brands.

There have been a number of press reports recently on the issue of who owns the rights to the vuvuzela. In reviewing the fuss and bother around this quasi-musical instrument, it is not clear whether these parties are claiming rights to the trade mark vuvuzela, or the rights to the product itself. Be that as it may, it is instructive to look at the history of the vuvuzela.

My company is considering selling a patent portfolio at an auction. Is this a good idea and what do I need to know about commercialising our technology this way?

On March 19 2010, the Drug Administration of Vietnam (DAV) issued a notification to request that local Departments of Health in all cities and provinces of Vietnam step up the inspection and supervision of cosmetics to prevent counterfeits and illegally imported cosmetics from being circulated in the market. Accordingly, the local Departments of Health are coordinating with 127 local and central government agencies to inspect and supervise distribution and after-sale activities in the cosmetics industry. Truong Quoc Cuong, director of the DAV stated that, in this campaign, the authorities will monitor manufacturing and importing enterprises, cosmetics market places and border markets which are now known for the distribution of counterfeit and illegally imported products.

In Thailand, most IP owners prefer to proceed with their cases under criminal law due to the uncertainty of obtaining compensation, costs to litigate the full court case, delays of trials and other difficulties often associated with civil litigation. The advantage of prosecuting an IP case as a criminal action is that it can result in seizure of the infringing products. The infringer would cease or hold manufacturing and distributing their infringing products and would be prosecuted in a criminal lawsuit by the police and the public prosecutor.

According to official statistics, 370 design registrations were granted and renewed in Syria in 2008 compared to 468 in 2007 (the numbers for 2009 are not yet available). The number of applications for registration filed in 2008 was 331 compared to 385 in 2007.

Secretive negotiations are underway for an international anti-counterfeiting deal. But what will ACTA mean for Europe? Marlous Stal-Hilders of Nederlandsch Octrooibureau explains

Article 269 (1) of the Portuguese Industrial Property Code states that "forfeiture of a registration shall be declared if the trade mark has not been the object of serious use for a period of five consecutive years, unless there are just grounds for the non-use".

The Federal Supreme Court recently decided on whether the Patent Office may rightfully register a patent licence solely on the request of the licensee. This was the practice of the Office in view of the fact that the Patent Act provides no specific rules as to who may apply for the registration of a licence and whether it is sufficient for proof of title to file the licence contract, or whether an explicit consent of the patent owner is needed; the Act also does not provide any rules on how the Registrar should act if it is contentious whether a licence contract is (still) valid or not.