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  • The Colombian Patent Office denied to grant a patent on an application filed by Pfizer Inc directed to a product known as "Viagra" , whose chemical name is pyrazolepyrimidone. The reason for this decision was that the application was trying to protect a new use of a known product. About the same time, the Peruvian Patent Office granted a patent to a corresponding patent application for the same subject matter.
  • The Polish Parliament has just finished its work on the Intellectual Property Law passed on March 17 2000. Nevertheless, the law can enter into force only after being signed by the President of Poland. But the President has doubts about the constitutionality of a rule added by Senate at the last stage of its work.
  • The Benelux Trade Marks Office has been forced to change its policy on registering colour marks. It is now possible to register a colour as a trade mark and to restrain third parties from using the chosen colour.
  • Xerox has lost its three-year battle with 3Com over patent infringement of its "Unistroke" software on the basis that there was "no genuine issue to any material fact". The decision on June 8, in Rochester, New York, by US district judge Michael A Telesca, destroys Xerox's hopes of receiving royalties on each Palm handheld organiser sold.
  • Oscar Gonzalez-Gonzalez and Hector Chagoya, of Mexico City's Becerril, Coca & Becerril, SC, examine the Mexican regime for protecting pharmaceutical products against generics
  • Patent protection in Russia defended
  • The Trade Mark Act which came into force on March 1 2000 has brought some changes to the Trade Mark Law of Finland. The new Trade Mark Act has brought the Finnish Trade Mark Law into line with the Trade Mark Treaty (TLT).
  • A recent Supreme Court decision in Japan will speed up patent litigation but innocent potential defendants should act early to avoid costly court battles. John A Tessensohn and Shusaku Yamamoto explain why
  • Remco EP de Ranitz and Michiel Rijsdijk of Arnold & Siedsma in The Hague, provide an overview of the latest developments in patent litigation in the Netherlands
  • In the light of the State Street decision in the US, Rainer Viktor, of Vossius & Partner in Munich, asks to what extent software and business-methods are patentable in Europe