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Directive 2006/114/EC concerning misleading and comparative advertisements has recently been implemented in Ireland by the European Communities (Misleading and Comparative Marketing Communications) Regulations 2007 (the 2007 Regulations). The purpose of the 2007 Regulations is twofold: (1) to protect traders against misleading marketing communications and their often unjust effects; and (2) to specify the circumstances in which comparative marketing communications are prohibited. We shall focus here on the comparative marketing angle.

Franck Soutoul and Jean-Philippe Bresson of Inlex analyze differences between EU and French trade mark practice, and discuss the particular problems that Google poses

Tamiko Franklin of Matijevich Law Offices has been appointed director general of the Virtual Intellectual Property Organization.

Gérard Portal of Cabinet Beau De Lomenie reviews recent cases, looking at preliminary injunctions, seizure validity and infringement itself

Act 221/2006 Coll on the enforcement of industrial property rights transposed Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and Council on the enforcement of IP rights. This unified the scope of the rights possessed by owners with respect to the individual types of intellectual property when they are infringed, as well as potential remedies. The sanctions for any IP infringement (regarding trade marks, patents, topographies of semiconductor products, utility models, industrial designs, appellations of origin and geographic designations) and the type of remedy are no longer incorporated in the statutes regulating their creation, extent, duration and expiry, but are to be found in one single Act.

The end of the year 2007 saw a few interesting cases arise in French practice. Most of them related to internet situations but the classical comparison of signs has not been in rest.

Anand and Anand, New Delhi

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India's Patent Office has granted its first patent to an overseas company for an anti-AIDS drug

Domain name slamming is one of the latest internet scams. Nick Wood explains how IP owners can protect themselves from it