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Survey results: Africa and Middle East

Egypt TRADE MARK PROSECUTION Tier 1 Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) Hoda Abdel Hadi & Partners Tier 2 Youssef Hafez Law Office Hoda A Serageldin SABA

Managing IP Correspondent, March 01 2008

Trade mark & copyright firms of the year

This month Managing IP reveals the results of part two of the world's most detailed and authoritative survey of the IP market. Following five months' research, in this issue we list the leading firms in trade mark prosecution and contentious work in 65 jurisdictions

Managing IP Correspondent, March 01 2008

Asia

Australia: Kim Carr, Australia's minister for innovation, industry, science and research, has announced a review of Australia's national innovation system. A panel led by Terry Cutler, director of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and chair of the advisory board for the Centre for Excellence for Creative Industries, will conduct the review. Cutler is due to report back by the end of July.

Managing IP Correspondent, March 01 2008

Americas

Paraguay: The Paraguayan Customs Office introduced the country's first official system for tracking IP rights at the border by implementing the Registry of Trademarks and Intellectual Property Rights. The new system will allow IP owners to register their marks in the Paraguayan Customs Office's computer system, named Sofia.

Managing IP Correspondent, March 01 2008

Develop your enforcement strategy in Latin America

Latin America represents an increasingly attractive investment option for many IP owners. But how should they protect their rights there? Managing IP, Olivares & Cia, Baker & McKenzie Latin America and Obligado & Cia hosted a roundtable to discuss the issue

Managing IP Correspondent, March 01 2008

Users must be focus of OHIM fee reduction

From João Miranda de Sousa

Managing IP Correspondent, March 01 2008

CAFC considers whether to revisit State Street

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit could reconsider its own landmark decision on business method patents after ordering an en banc hearing in an appeal in In Re Bilski

Managing IP Correspondent, March 01 2008

Courts adapt copyright levies to new media

Two recent German Supreme Court decisions have highlighted the differentiated approach required towards copyright levies on new media devices, says Fabian Niemann

Managing IP Correspondent, March 01 2008

FILA and FILO confusingly similar?

In the recent case FILA Luxembourg SARL v The Turkish Patent Institute and Yardim Tekstil Ltd, the Turkish IP Court was required to consider whether the application for the trade mark FİLO was confusingly similar to the registered trade mark FILA.

Managing IP Correspondent, March 01 2008

Concern over new draft rules on confusion in IP disputes

The judicial branch of Taiwan has published two sets of rules drafted to clarify Article 38 of the Act of Trial Procedures in IP Dispute Cases promulgated on March 28 2007. One is the Enforcement Rules of the Act and the other provides guidelines for trial.

Managing IP Correspondent, March 01 2008

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