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  • A prominent businessman is driving on Sheik Zayed Road one day and sees his image on a billboard advertising a property development in Dubai. An employee of a desert tour company is flipping through a magazine and sees his image used in a leaflet advertising the company's activities. A student is at an art gallery and comes across a photograph in which she is prominently featured. In all of these cases, the permission of the people featured in the photographs and advertisements was not obtained.
  • For PCT applications that have an international filing date on or after July 1 2004 and which enter the national phase in Singapore under Chapter I, one of the search and examination procedures available is to file a statement saying that the applicant wishes to rely on the international preliminary report on patentability (IPRP) of the PCT application and proceed to grant. In other words, Chapter I cases can rely on the IPRP for grant, thereby avoiding the need to request local examination in Singapore.
  • The District Administrative Court in Warsaw (Case VI SA/Wa 1482/09) confirmed the view of the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland that a single colour per se does not have distinctive character, but that this obstacle to registration as a trade mark may be eliminated by acquired distinctiveness.
  • A recent Italian legislative decree to relaunch the economy includes tax relief measures related to patents, trade marks and know-how. This decree increases the deductible amortization rate for the costs of the right to use original works, patents, processes, formulas and information related to experience acquired in the field of industry, commerce and science from 33% to 50%.
  • A judgment in the unsuccessful trade mark opposition brought by Rotary International (RI) against Carl Bird, proprietor of the trade mark Rotary Engine, has issued.
  • The protection of the appearance of a product is often neglected. Companies tend to focus on patents (protecting technical aspects) or on trade marks (protecting the name of a product) but seldom on the shape of the product.
  • The Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic has decided to issue the Official Journal in an electronic form on the website www.upv.cz.
  • On July 18 2006, the full court of the Australian Federal Court, in Grant v Commissioner of Patents [2006] FCAFC 120, made a significant pronouncement likely to add confusion to the borders of possible business method patent protection in Australia.
  • MIP speaks to Charles Glasser, media counsel for Bloomberg News and editor of the International Libel & Privacy Handbook, about IP, the internet and cultural sensitivity
  • The EU Enforcement Directive has raised issues over IP enforcement across Europe, leading to delays in implementation in some member states. Gareth Morgan, Valerie Budd and Dietrich Kamlah compare the challenges the Directive poses in the UK, France and Germany