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The Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court recently ordered Generation 2000, a well-known Hong Kong fashion chain with over 400 franchised counters/outlets in China, as well as some of its franchisees in China, to pay Rmb20 million (around $2.8 million) to Zhao Hua for infringing his 2000 trade mark.

The worldwide Erbitux patent dispute reached the end of the road with a settlement between the parties

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Long before John Locke's natural rights theory was used as a basis for granting a monopoly over intellectual property in continental Europe, and long before the founders of the United States drafted their constitution to allow Congress the power to "promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive rights to their respective writings and discoveries", Islamic Sharia established principles to protect intellectual property.

A sound mark is a non-traditional mark (such as scent, taste, texture and moving-image marks) where sound is used to perform the trade mark function of uniquely identifying the commercial origin of products or services.

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.

In a recent decision (Carvedilol II; X ZR 236/01), the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) has ruled on the validity of a second medical use claim comprising a dosage regimen for the beta-blocker carvedilol, the claim reading: "Use of carvedilol for the manufacture of a medicament ..., wherein the medicament is administered in an initial dose of 3.125 mg ... per day over a time period of 7 to 28 days, followed by dosage increases ...."

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.

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

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