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  • The prosecution of patent applications in Argentina normally takes from six to 10 years depending on the technical field involved. The Patent Office (INPI) has reacted to this reality by allowing a second fast track.
  • This was an opposition brought by Mark Richard Jeffery and Guy Anthony (the opponents), owners of the registered mark Jeffery-West in Class 25, against Nautical Concept (the applicant) who applied to register jWEST as a trade mark in Class 25 for similar goods (shoes and footwear).
  • The difficulties likely to be faced by businesses that seek trade mark protection for three-dimensional signs which have a functional feature were revisited in a recent Opinion of Advocate General Leger in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Dyson Ltd v Registrar (Case C-321/03).
  • The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) has decided to introduce a system to refund, in certain cases, the full amount of the submitted application fee and the request for examination fee. This will be available to applicants who decide to cancel or abandon a patent, utility model, design or trade mark application that has already been submitted if, for example, their circumstances change or their application was incorrect.
  • The New Zealand government is drafting a Major Events Management Bill (the Bill) to help prevent ambush marketing in connection with such events.
  • The Italian Financial Act 2007 introduces a simplified procedure for the destruction of goods suspected of violating IP rights.
  • Intellectual property rights owners will welcome recent indications from the Irish Commercial Court, which has specialist expertise in IP matters, that it is fully prepared to get tough with infringers who fail to disclose information in relation to the source of their infringing goods.
  • As part of Iran's obligations under the Paris Convention, the Iranian courts have consistently discouraged hijacking of well-known trade marks. Even where the marks are not well known, the courts have consistently held in favour of marks that emerge from one of the Paris Convention countries and have prior international (outside Iran) use of the mark.
  • With high levels of piracy across Asia, protecting IP in the region remains complicated. Satellite TV company Star began broadcasting in 1991 with five channels and now reaches 300 million viewers across the continent. Peter Ollier looks at how the company's in-house team protects its IP assets
  • In a preliminary ruling in a case forwarded to the ECJ by the Austrian Oberster Patent– und Markensenat (OPM) and closely monitored by the Austrian IP community, Advocate–General Damaso Ruiz–Jarabo Colomer delivered his opinion on October 26 2006 (C–246/05 – Häupl v Lidl). If followed by the ECJ, the opinion will have a revolutionary impact on non–use legislation and jurisprudence throughout Europe.