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An Amendment Bill to part of the Copyright Act was presented to Congress on March 10 2009. The aim of the amendment is to speed up and advance the circulation of digital content. The amendment is a response to various problems that relate to the exploitation of copyright works on the Internet.

The well-known carmaker Mazda has registered trade marks for the word Mazda and its logo, which are both famous trade marks, in Austria. A firm in the province of Lower Austria offers chip-tuning services for different types of cars. In chip-tuning, chips are built into the electronic command parts of the car to achieve a higher power output of the motor. However, chip tuning also leads to much higher wear, making original warranties and guarantees no longer valid. To advertise its services, the firm runs a website on which it lists the cars for which it offers the service. In doing so, it uses the word marks and the logos of the car manufacturers, among them the marks of Mazda. Mazda sued for trade mark infringement.

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Companies worldwide have been affected by the global credit crunch. Karen Abraham and Jyeshta Mahendran of Shearn Delamore & Co look at what strategies brand owners can adopt to weather the storm

Challenging economic conditions and thus increasing competition drives patent wars before the courts in Turkey as all over the world. In particular, famous international players in the pharmaceutical industry review all patent rights in this war against others including of course generic drugs manufacturers.

Correspondents in Central America provide an overview of parallel imports and border measures in the DR/CAFTA region, which encompasses the United States of America, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica

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In Hewlett-Packard Company v The Department of Intellectual Property [Supreme Court Case no 3685/2551 (2008)], the Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the Central Intellectual Property and International Trade Court (IP&IT Court) by using the concept of distinctiveness through use or secondary meaning.

In Taiwan, a registered trade mark is vulnerable to non-use cancellation if, without justifiable cause, use of the trade mark has not begun within three years of its registration or after a period of time, use of the trade mark has been discontinued for a period in excess of three years.

In view of recent advances in technology, copyright protection has to be more complex. The widespread use of electronic modes of communication and data storage makes it essential that copyright law takes these technologies into account to safeguard the interests of the copyright owners and provides them with effective remedies.