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  • The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) is shifting its policy focus from fast-for-all examinations to customer-tailored high quality examinations. Under the proposed system (scheduled to start on October 1 2008), KIPO will allow applicants to choose one of three examination tracks: accelerated, normal, or delayed examination.
  • The Saudi Trade Mark Law sets out the rights of a trade mark owner in Saudi Arabia against infringement. Since the law provides protection against infringement only for registered trade marks in Saudi Arabia, unregistered trade marks cannot be enforced. Administrative and legal actions are available against trade mark infringement in Saudi Arabia.
  • In recent months, the Mexican Patent Office (IMPI) has changed its practice regarding the time limit to file divisional applications. In cases where divisional applications are filed as a result of a requirement regarding lack of unity of the invention, they must be filed simultaneously with the response to said requirement, rather than at a later date, as was traditionally acceptable.
  • Governments should consider setting up bodies to reduce the barriers for SMEs entering the patenting process and improve the quality of applications, argues Rafaël Kiebooms
  • In a recent decision, the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled that a patent claiming a technical effect that is not indicated in the priority application may still validly claim priority if the obtaining of the effect seems self-evident to a person skilled in the art when reworking the disclosed invention (BGH X ZR 107/04).
  • The Chilean Association of Intellectual Property, the Chilean group of AIPPI, known by the abbreviated name ACHIPI, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. For this purpose, the group organised the first international IP Work Sessions, entitled "Intellectual Property, a development tool", which recently took place in Santiago, on September 1 2008.
  • ELZABURU partner Miguel Angel Medina outlines some of the key differences between challenging trade mark applications at national and Community level
  • Hoffmann Eitle's Thorsten Bausch investigates why Germany's Federal Patent Court appears to be invalidating more patents than ever before
  • In recent years, users of Europe's trade mark system have been engaged in debates on the role of national offices. But where are patent users? Tove Graulund and Holm Schwarze of Zacco discuss the latest developments
  • Ernest Gutmann-Yves Plasseraud SAS, Lyon