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Wikipedia has become a key source of information for internet users around the world. But it also poses dangers for trade mark owners. Joshua Jarvis explains why

More and more brand owners are discovering that someone else has managed to register their trade marks in China. Catherine Sun explains how they should deal with the problem

At a recent web seminar organized in conjunction with Finnegan Henderson, two private practitioners, an in-house lawyer and an attorney at the International Trade Commission explained how plaintiffs and defendants can navigate their way around the rules

Kai Yang of Liu, Shen & Associates explains how to deal with the unresolved problem of trade mark rights and trade name rights

On the question how New York City (NYC) acquired the name the Big Apple, there seems to be some uncertainty, but it seems certain that horse racing had something to do with it. There are recorded references to the phrase "bet a big apple" going back to 1847 and it would seem that by the late 1920s, NYC was already referred to as the Big Apple.

Jean L Pire and Sandra R Paulsson of Gevers guide you through EU law complexities to strengthen your trade mark on a global market

The trade in counterfeits is on the increase and therefore causing problems for companies across industries. In order to stop the sale of counterfeits, companies are faced with the challenge of finding the most effective and cost-efficient measures to protect their products.

At the ninth session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore at WIPO in Geneva, the South African Minister for Science and Technology, Mosibudi Mangena, presented a working document on an Indigenous Knowledge Systems Policy for South Africa.

Trade mark use, according to Article 6 of the Trade Mark Act, means: "the use of a trade mark for marketing purposes upon goods, services or the relevant articles, or the use of a trade mark by means of two-dimensional graphics, digital audio and video, electronic media or any other media to an extent sufficient to enable the relevant consumers to recognize it as a trade mark."

The Trade Marks Act 1999, which came into force on September 15 2003, was India's successful attempt to harmonize its trade mark laws with the requirements of TRIPs, as it differentiates between well-known trade marks and trade marks generally. The 1999 Act deals extensively with the facts to be considered and methods to be adopted by the Registrar in protecting a well-known trade mark while considering an application for registration of an identical or similar mark in any class or classes of goods or services, whether the proprietor of such a well-known mark be an Indian or a foreign company, as well as at the same time protecting the interests of good faith proprietors. The courts in India, however, already afforded protection to such well-known trade marks against illegal copying, even before the introduction of the provisions in the Trade Marks Act 1999.