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On January 1 2011 Switzerland will for the first time in its history put into force unified civil procedure rules applying to the whole country. To date, each of the 26 cantons apply different procedural statutes.

After receiving notice of an allegation of infringement from a trade mark owner, the receiving party is often put in the unenviable position of having to make a unilateral determination to either cease the activity at issue or continue with conduct that potentially violates a third party's rights while it waits to see if formal legal action is initiated.

Peter Ollier reports on the Australian government’s plans to introduce a hardline packaging regime for cigarettes, and how the tobacco industry plans to oppose it

According to the Vietnam National Internet Centre (VNNIC), there have been hundreds of complaints requesting the withdrawal of registered .vn domain names. The most popular ground for such complaints is that the registered domain names are identical to complainants' registered trademarks or trade names. Many complainants are owners of famous trade marks. As a result of this situation, on March 17 2010, the VNNIC issued Guidelines on Handling of Disputed ".vn" Domain Names.

With the vast advancement in information and computer technology, using information contained in web pages as evidence in patent invalidation proceedings is quite common nowadays. However, since information on the internet changes more frequently than information in conventional media, it is relatively difficult to preserve web page information or to use such information as legal evidence. Hence, archived web pages that are retrievable using the Wayback Machine, a service provided by the Internet Archive, a non-profit organisation, have become an important source of prior art data in patent invalidation proceedings.

The recent decisions issued by the Trade Mark Re-Examination Committee of the Romanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks (SOIT) in the three cases Limo v Voslauer Biolimo, subject to appeal pending with the 5th Civil Section of the Bucharest Tribunal, will have an important impact on the question of Limo trade mark distinctiveness for products in class 32, and may represent an important instrument to be taken into account by OHIM when deciding upon the pending oppositions filed by the owner of the Limo trade mark against Community and international trade mark applications containing this term.

Norway's new Trade Mark Act is expected to enter into force on July 1 2010. The new Act mainly represents a modernisation of the old Act and codification of existing case law, but a f ew important practical aspects of the new Act should be noted.

Managing IP sat down with lawyers from Finnegan, trade mark survey specialists and TTAB representatives to find out more about the latest rules for litigating trade mark disputes in the US

The Court of Justice’s nuanced ruling in a dispute over the use of trademarked keywords answered some questions and raised others. Susanne Mellqvist and Maria Lagergren of Valea analyse the decision

Indonesia’s government is trying to improve the country’s much-maligned IP system. Brett McGuire explains the challenges that it must overcome