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  • A request for re-establishment of rights in Norway may be made when the applicant has failed to comply with a time limit set by the Patents Act and for which the applicant has suffered loss of rights. Section 72 of the Patents Act dealing with re-establishment of rights is inspired by Article 122 EPC.
  • On July 8 2009, the Court in The Hague decided on the question whether a patent owner still has the right to enforce his patent as a temporary measure, if the patent was revoked in first instance. This in view of the fact that the revocation could be overruled in the appeal proceedings.
  • A dated, stale trade mark may affect an IP owner's bottom line. Making the mark fluid may be a good solution but also entails risks under Benelux and Community law. Flip Petillion and Cedric Vanleenhove explain how to minimise them
  • Managing IP profiles some of the most heavily lobbied IP issues worldwide and considers how IP owners and activists shaped the debate - and the outcome
  • As IP issues move up the political agenda IP owners and their lawyers have their biggest opportunity yet to influence the policy making process. Emma Barraclough and Eileen McDermott explain how to do it
  • Europe's politicians must reform the EU's patent regime if its businesses are to be able to compete in a globalised world, argue Paul-Alexander Wacker and Rainer A Kuhnen of Kuhnen & Wacker
  • Germany's Federal Supreme Court recently clarified the obligations of patent owners to grant licences under the country’s antitrust rules. Gerhard Barth of Grünecker, Kinkeldey, Stockmair & Schwanhäusser explains what they mean in practice
  • Once the USPTO has completed its review of a trade mark application and determines that it is eligible for registration, such application is published for opposition in the USPTO's Official Gazette. Publication of the application provides any third party who believes that it will be damaged by the issuance of a Certificate of Registration the opportunity to oppose registration of the mark by instituting opposition proceedings with the USPTO's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
  • It is a regular and strict practice of the Turkish Patent Institute to examine a trade mark application on both relative and absolute grounds within six to eight months of its filing date. Accordingly, the Institute rejects ex officio an application where the mark applied for is identical or very similar to a prior registration or application for identical or similar goods or services.
  • The EPO is becoming stricter when it comes to examining parameter patents. Edward Farrington of Valea considers the case law and explains what the trends mean for patent applicants and their business rivals