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Emma Barraclough, London

Emma Barraclough, London

Auckland's refurbished Eden Park will host games in 2011 New Zealand has become the latest country to propose special protection against the threat of ambush marketing at major sports events.

James Nurton, London

Emma Barraclough, London

On August 29 2006, the Vietnamese government promulgated Decree 88/2006/ND-CP on Business Registration. Decree 88 is notable in regard to IP because it contains provisions on trade names. In Vietnam, it is common for many companies to have the same name and some local companies have adopted well-known foreign trade marks as part of their trade name. Specifically, Decree 88 addresses these problems by providing as follows:

Individuals interested in creating an online forum to voice criticism about a particular company's product or service offering often register domain names which incorporate a company's trade mark to be used as so-called gripe sites. These individuals typically claim that their use of a third party's trade mark as part of a domain name constitutes a fair use of that trade mark, thereby creating a legitimate non-commercial interest for the domain name registrant in owning the domain name at issue.

Tom Thomson, executive director, Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights

In this age of the internet, it is standard practice to search the world wide web using the various search engines such as Yahoo and Google. Did you know however that it is incorrect, indeed objectionable, in trade mark terms to "yahoo" or "google" someone or something – that is, to use these trade marks as verbs thus potentially rendering them generic and the trade mark registrations liable to "death by genericide". Examples of such generic use at one time or another are "hoover", "sellotape" and "escalator".

Up until recently, in the UAE, an agency agreement had to be registered at the Commercial Agencies Register at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to be enforceable. This had created a lot of difficulties in the past for foreign companies in terminating agreements where the local agent was not performing under the agreement, as the commercial agency law provided substantial protection to the commercial agents, especially in the context of termination. For example, if the principal terminated an unlimited term commercial agency without cause, the principal was obliged to compensate the agent.