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Reaching EPO and OHIM in a few seconds

Just one click and in the blink of an eye I am in the European Patent Office (EPO) locating in Munich (Germany) or The Hague (the Netherlands) or in the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) in Alicante (Spain) but when I look out from the window I see an office backyard in Helsinki (Finland).

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 2007

Utynam's Heirs

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

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 2007

The view from the bench

IP owners in Japan have traditionally been reluctant to take their disputes to court. But things are beginning to change. Tomokatsu Tsukahara, the new chief of the IP High Court, and Masami Ichikawa, presiding judge of the IP division at the Tokyo District Court, told Peter Ollier about the changing face of IP litigation in Japan

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 2007

Divisional applications are ok after all

Andrew Hammond of Valea looks back at the lead-up to the EPO Enlarged Board’s recent decision regarding divisional applications and forward to its possible consequences

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 2007

Imagining the IP future

Three years ago the European Patent Office launched an innovative project to consider how the IP environment may evolve by 2025. What they discovered will have far-reaching consequences for IP users, owners and policy makers, says project leader Shirin Elahi

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 2007

Japan and US launch electronic document exchange

Peter Ollier, Hong Kong

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 2007

When reverse engineering becomes copying

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.

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 2007

Use China's labour laws to protect IP

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.

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 2007

Government proposes experimental use exemption

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.

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 2007

Comparative advertising approach relaxed in South Africa

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.

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 2007

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