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Canada has its own classification system for designs comprising 50 classes and 220 subclasses, compared to the Locarno System, which has 32 classes and 102 subclasses. The Design Office is studying the possibility of utilizing the Locarno classes together with more detailed subclasses from the Canadian classification system, thereby permitting Canada to harmonize with other IP offices.

Managing IP's third annual Awards Dinner was held at Claridge's in London last month, with more than 250 guests coming from as far away as Brazil, Korea, Australia, South Africa and Turkey

By virtue of a recent decision in the case No II GSK 305/06, the Supreme Administrative Court rejected an appeal filed by company T and maintained the Polish Patent Office's decision to invalidate the right holder's trade mark.

When a merger, divestiture or purchase of assets involves intellectual property, a corporate IP attorney should be part of the team. The business purpose of the transaction and expectations for the IP assets must be discussed with the client. Through that guidance, the corporate IP lawyer will be able to perform the due diligence and advise whether the transaction will meet the client's expectations.

A new law, number 20,254, establishing the National Institute of Industrial Property (INAPI), was published recently in the Official Gazette in Chile. This law – sent to the Congress in 2000 on the initiative of the President – creates a new autonomous agency in charge of the records and administration of industrial property in Chile, with a legal personality and its own assets, linked to the President of the Republic through the Ministry of Economy. The chief executive of this entity will be a national director, named directly by the President.

According to statistics released recently, the number of new trade mark applications filed in China in 2007 was close to 710,000, making it yet again number one in the world, a position it has held for the past five years.

From Samson Helfgott

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).

The case of Austin Nichols & Co, Incorporated D/B/A Pernod Ricard v Stichting Lodestar is an unreported Singapore High Court appeal case against the decision of the Registrar of trade marks for the trade mark applications of Wild Geese in Class 32 and 33 by Austin Nichols & Co, Incorporated D/B/A Pernod Ricard. The trial judge dismissed the appeals, holding that: the respondent's mark, Wild Geese was not confusingly similar to the appellant's Wild Turkey mark pursuant to section 8(2)(b) of the Trade Marks Act; there was no likelihood of confusion between the marks Wild Turkey and Wild Geese; and the appellant did not make out a case of passing off under Section 8(7)(a) of the Trade Marks Act.