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  • The digital twin spark plug ignition (DTS-i) technology debate between the motorcycle manufacturing giants Bajaj Auto and TVS Motors continues. The patent war has now reached the Supreme Court with Bajaj seeking a restraining order on the manufacturing and selling of the TVS two-wheeler Flame. Bajaj has sought a revocation of the Madras High Court order allowing TVS to go ahead with receiving bookings for and selling its new motorcycle.
  • Gérard Portal of Cabinet Beau De Lomenie reviews recent cases, looking at preliminary injunctions, seizure validity and infringement itself
  • On December 18 2007, the Regional Trial Court of Quezon City (RTC) under presiding Judge Reynaldo Daway found Avida Land Corporation (Avida) guilty of patent infringement and ordered it to pay inventor Edgardo Vasquez and his company Vasquez Building Systems Corporation (VBSC), P96.5 million ($2.37 million) in temperate, moral, exemplary damages and attorney's fees.
  • Recent case law has cast a wide net with the potential to catch patent owners making threats of patent infringement litigation in Australia.
  • In the first decision, the Austrian Supreme Patent and Trade Mark Senate (ASPTS) has found that in a declaratory action concerning the non-infringement of a patent the existing right (patent) as defined in the register shall form the basis of the proceedings. Thus, only the subject matter in dispute shall be compared with the subject matter of the patent. However, the validity of the claims of the patent on which the action is based shall not be the object of these declaratory proceedings.
  • Lionel Vial, Béatrice Holtz and Alain Colombet of Lavoix outline the problems gene patenting is experiencing in French legislation
  • A monthly column devoted to IP curiosities and controversies, named in honour of John of Utynam - who received the world's first recorded patent in 1449
  • Dutch biotechnology company Crucell signed a licence agreement with Korean-based ISU ABXIS over STAR, a technology used for the production of recombinant human antibodies and proteins. This deal covers the research and development of the technology and includes an option for a commercial licence.
  • Simply because a trade mark owner is using their mark in the United States does not necessarily mean that the mark is eligible for registration in the US Patent and Trademark Office or that it would be prudent to make a filing for federal registration. Certain circumstances may exist which preempt the ability to register a mark on the USPTO's Principal Register or create a new risk associated with making such a filing.
  • Costa Rica is and will be the last country to adhere to the DR-CAFTA Treaty. Its approval was subject to a popular referendum held at the end of 2007. At present, Congress is discussing the Treaty's corresponding implementation laws; these should be ready by March 2008.