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  • On April 2, technology standard-makers voted against adding copy-protection support directly into computer hardware, a controversial proposal aiming to smooth adoption of strong anti-piracy safeguards. The vote was closely watched by hardware makers, Hollywood studios and record labels as well as free speech advocates as a signal of how much control the content and computer industries would have over consumers' use of home PCs.
  • Kathleen E McCarthy, Morgan & Finnegan, LLP
  • The European parliament has finally approved the Copyright Directive. The Directive aims to harmonize protection for copyright protected works and update European copyright law for the internet age. It should now be implemented in each member state within the next 18 months.
  • It will soon become easier for foreign companies to obtain domain names in Brazil. The Brazilian Internet Administration Committee is about to change its policy which requires a local presence to register a domain name in the country.
  • ? Japan: The US Polo Association has appointed Mitsubishi as its official trade mark licensee in Japan. Mitsubishi will concentrate on selling sportswear bearing the Association's trade marks.
  • Decision 486 of the Andean Community, which came into force on December 1 2000 in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, introduced fundamental changes to the licensing regime in the Andean Community.
  • Owen Dean analyzes the South African law on parallel imports for trade mark and copyright-protected goods in the light of divergent court rulings
  • Alexander von Mühlendahl, vice-president, OHIM in Alicante
  • Tegal Corp v Tokyo Electron Co, 58 USPQ2d 1791 (Fed Cir, May 14 2001) involves the interesting issue of what constitutes conduct contemptuous of an injunction against wilful patent infringement under US law.
  • It is widely believed that change is as good as a rest. Certainly this seems to be the case in the Asia-Pacific, although unfortunately, little has changed and no one has had any rest. The internet dominated the Asian-Pacific scene in last year's survey and its impact is still reverberating through IP practices. If anything it is registering even higher on the Richter scale. Intellectual property lawyers have never been so busy.