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The first high-speed railway constructed by Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC) under the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model in Taiwan rolled into service in 2006. The high-speed train, called 700T in Taiwan, was built based upon the design of the locomotive used by the Japanese high-speed rail system, only with the stripes extending along both sides of the locomotive altered from pure blue to juxtaposed orange and black.

One of the most widely used instruments for the protection of intellectual property is the Paris Convention, which, is one of the oldest IP agreements (it was signed in Brussels on March 20 1883). This Convention brings together almost every country in the world and is used by many IP rights owners to get recognition of their rights in different countries from those where they were obtained or declared.

Colombia made an alcoholic move to Russia. To secure its position a trade mark application for rum was filed Ron Viejo de Caldas (application 2004723531 with priority date of October 14 2004). The application was rejected. The examiner stated in the rejection that the designation did not have distinguishing capability because it consisted only of non-protectable elements characterizing the goods. Indeed, Ron (rum) points to the name of the product, Viejo is old and de Caldas means from the province of Caldas

The Court of Appeal in Malaysia has considered the issue of what constitutes a person aggrieved in the context of the expungement of a trade mark from the register. This is of importance as section 45 of the Trade Marks Act provides that an application to rectify the register can only be done by "a person aggrieved".

As reported last month, the Italian Patent Office (PTO) had begun discussions with the European Patent Office (EPO) to define an agreement under which Italian patent applications would be searched by the EPO with respect to novelty and inventive step.

After years of public discussion and position papers, the Knesset – Israel's parliament – recently enacted the Copyright Act, 2007 (New Law), which will come into effect in May 2008. The New Law replaces the Copyright Act of 1911 that was passed by the British Parliament and made applicable to pre-state Israel during the British Mandate, as well as most of the provisions of the 1924 Copyright Ordinance (Old Law).

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.