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Víctor Garrido of Dumont Bergman Bider discusses the efforts to apply a national innovation system in Mexico

Amended Rule 36 EPC on divisional applications has led to confusion. Ard Ellens of Nederlandsch Octrooibureau in the Netherlands provides a guide to the options available

Over the last few months, every week the local press has contained several articles on issues relating to consumer protection. Consumer Protection Day in March was an occasion for various events and initiatives to raise the profile of issues affecting consumers and to increase awareness of the rights of consumers – rights which are now enshrined in the Consumer Protection Law of 2008.

In Colgate-Palmolive Company (Colgate) v The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), P&G challenged Colgate's application to register a two-dimensional device representing a slug of toothpaste comprising green, white and blue strips in a sandwich appearance for the company's dentifrices (which include paste, gel or powder for use in oral hygiene) in class 3. P&G raised three-dimensional mark objections against Colgate's application and also argued:

Managing IP celebrated the winners of its 2010 awards at a dinner at the Dorchester, London

On May 13 2010, Attorney Ricardo R Blancaflor, newly appointed director general of the Intellectual Property Office (IPPhil), issued Office Order Number 84 entitled Policies and Guidelines on Counterfeit and Pirated Products. This Office Order mandates that all officials and employees of the IPPhil should respect IP rights and that they should not patronise counterfeit and pirated products. It also applies to visitors of the IPPhil, who shall be subject to inspection by the security guards. To implement the Office Order, the security guards at the entrances and exits of the IPPhil building are instructed to do the following:

When Venus Fashions and Grapholite Moses Printers launched their Hebrew language magazine Belle in Israel, Elle, the international women's magazine sued for an injunction. Both magazines focus on women's fashion, beauty, health and entertainment.

Circular 22/2009/TT-BYT issued by the Ministry of Health, effective May 24 2010, has clarified certain issues related to IP rights and drug marketing approval in Vietnam.

Under current practice, after an allegedly infringing article or method is found to be non-infringing literally, a determination will generally be made to determine whether there is infringement under the doctrine of equivalents.

The Icann Board last week brought the .xxx domain closer, approved four Chinese-language internationalised domains and raised the possibility of approving the new gTLD programme in December