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  • Panellists in a web seminar organized by Managing IP and VeriSign discussed the latest online challenges to brands - and how to fight them
  • Trade mark owners generally agree that trade marks should have strong protection and that well-known marks deserve more.
  • For the fifth year, Managing IP reveals its list of the biggest IP firms in Asia, Europe and the US
  • Gold (and, less so, platinum) glitters and its shining is visible from afar. Trade marks, even though they are not precious metals, equally enjoy better visibility and are more conspicuous when they include those magic words. Both the words gold and platinum denote something very safe and valuable. No wonder then that a trade mark applicant chose the word "platinum".
  • Under the Singapore Patents Act, a divisional application must be filed before grant conditions are met for the parent application. In any event, the divisional application must be filed before the parent application has been refused, withdrawn or treated as having been abandoned.
  • Reverse engineering can be defined as copying a competitor's technology by dismantling an existing product and reproducing its parts and construction to manufacture a replica. Does this amount to copyright infringement? Does copying the drawing or the article made from the drawing constitute taking the idea or the expression of the design? In Malaysia, there are two views on the matter.
  • The Labour Contract Law of China was adopted on June 29 2007 and promulgated on the same date. It will come into effect on January 1 2008.
  • Verimark is the market leader in South Africa in the field of television marketing in which so-called infomercials are used. Two of its products are Diamond Guard car care kit and Diamond Guard car polish, which have been widely advertised and sold since 1996. Throughout this period, Verimark used vehicles of different makes, but especially BMW cars, to demonstrate these products.
  • In a dangerous development for patent holders, the Australian government, in an adventurous move, has accepted the recommendation of the Australian Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP) to introduce an experimental use exemption (EUE) under the Patents Act. To be clear, this is not an amendment to the law, but constitutes the introduction of a statutory EUE where previously none existed. Moreover, the notion of an EUE does not feature in our precedent law.