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  • Asia's mix of mature markets and rapidly industrializing economies gives parallel traders plenty of scope to exploit price differentials across the region. Emma Barraclough introduces a survey of six Asian jurisdictions which considers what local rules on parallel trade mean for rights owners and importers
  • GUATEMALA: The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) will enter into force in Guatemala on October 14, after the country acceded to the Treaty in July. Guatemala will be the 133rd member of the PCT.
  • 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
  • Europe's national IP offices. Old, tired and desperate for cash, struggling to find a future in a globalized world used to the efficiencies of one-stop shops? Or streamlined, nimble, consumer-focused operations, providing locally relevant advice at the IP coalface, rather than in far away Munich and Alicante? Emma Barraclough looks at the evidence
  • Dot-eu registry EURid has got tough with registrars it believes are warehousing domain names. On July 24 it suspended 74,000 domain names and sued 400 registrars for breach of contract.
  • Bacardi has staked its claim to the Havana Club rum brand in the US on the back of a USPTO decision not to renew a trade mark owned by the Cuban government and joint venture partner Pernod Ricard.
  • Musician turned patent enforcer Judah Klausner is lining up law suits against some of America's biggest communications companies. He spoke to Shahnaz Mahmud about his plans, and why he denies being a patent troll
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  • A company that has a trade mark filing in place in a foreign jurisdiction has multiple options when considering an expansion of its trade mark rights into the United States. Specifically, US trade mark law provides several mechanisms pursuant to which a foreign trade mark owner can use the priority established by a foreign trade mark filing when making a filing in the United States.