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On January 1 last year Unilever outsourced its trade mark prosecution work. Almost 18 months on, Katrina Burchell, the company's general trade mark counsel, told Emma Barraclough about the experience

Over the past five years, trade mark applications before the Turkish Patent Institute have almost doubled, reaching 72,633 in 2007 (see figure 1).

Emma Barraclough, London

In Peru there are two regulations that forbid the registration of a trade mark when it infringes a copyright owned by a third party. One of these regulations is included in clause (g) of article 130 of the Legislative Decree 823 – Industrial Property Law, and the other is included in clause (f) of article 136 of Decision 486 – Common Regime regarding Industrial Property. These regulations state that the brand names consisting of a sign that may violate the IP rights or copyright of a third party or brand names that consist of titles of literary, artistic or scientific works that are the object of copyright protection may not be registered as trade marks.

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Eileen McDermott, New York and James Nurton, London

Emma Barraclough, London

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

Courts around the world are dealing with cutting-edge trade mark issues. Emma Barraclough, Eileen McDermott and Peter Ollier provide a guide to the cases you need to watch

The Austrian Supreme Court clarified recently that the claimant is not liable for damages if a previously granted interim injunction appears to be unjustified in view of a later decision by the ECJ.