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Since April 2007 a number of domain name disputes have been heard by the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL). A recent decision shows that even if a domain name registration promotes the complainant's services, the registrant still does not have the right to use the complainant's trade mark or to ride on his or her goodwill and reputation.

My company is facing increased litigation in the US and I am concerned about the amount of e-discovery required. How can I minimise costs while still fulfilling obligations?

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Our Designs Act was substantially reviewed in 2003 to try to broaden the protection available to applicants.

All around the world, of all the members of the intellectual property family, copyright is showing the greatest signs of stress. New Zealand is no exception.

In 1995 Levi Strauss (Philippines) Inc filed a criminal complaint on unfair competition against Tony Lim, which went all the way up to the Supreme Court as case GR no 162311. The Supreme Court issued its decision on December 4 2008, holding that the trade mark Levi's is not confusingly similar to Live's and that the elements of unfair competition were not proven. On the procedural aspect, the case was also dismissible because the remedy chosen by Levi Strauss was the wrong mode of appeal.

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V&S Vin & Sprit Aktiebolag (V&S), the owner of the Absolut trade mark, one of the most well-known and reputed brands in the world for spirits and luxury goods, filed a civil suit in India against Bangalore based pharmaceutical company Pharmed and one of its subsidiaries (Pharmed) for infringing, passing off and diluting its well-known trade mark Absolut in India. V&S came to know about the said infringement in early 2007 through Pharmed's website, where it was displaying and offering for sale anti-oxidant capsules and syrups under an identical mark. V&S immediately notified Pharmed of the infringement and misuse of its well-known mark and requested that it immediately cease and desist such infringing acts.

The creation of the specialised intellectual property section of the Federal Court for Tax and Administrative Affairs (FCTAA), which began functioning on January 5, marks an important development in the Mexican intellectual property landscape.