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  • A Colombian tobacco company registered in 1994 a trade mark in international class 34 to cover the following goods: tobacco; smokers' articles; matches. In 1996 the owner of the trade mark agreed partially to assign the trade mark with regard to some goods covered by the registration. The trade mark was assigned to a third party covering only matches while the owner maintained mark with regard to tobacco and smokers' articles.
  • Neither the Mexican intellectual property laws nor the federal or local courts recognize rights of publicity as they are known in the United States. However some provisions of the Mexican Copyright Statutory Law could provide some protection similar to the so called rights of publicity.
  • Two Japanese inventors have recently become millionaires after being awarded compensation for their revolutionary patents. The cases have led to concern among Japanese businesses, and proposals for changes to the patent law. Emma Barraclough investigates
  • Since coming into force on November 13 2000, the Singapore Registered Designs Act (Cap. 266) has seen a reasonable level of activity in terms of the number of applications filed. Below are some statistics extracted from the 2002/2003 annual report of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) for years 2001 and 2002.
  • On the eve of his retirement in May, Wilhelm von Lieres, corporate chief IP counsel of Siemens, tells Stéphanie Bodoni about the company's IP strategy, and his views on the software directive and the Community patent
  • The fourth and final part of the annual World IP Survey lists the leading trade mark/copyright firms as voted for by MIP readers
  • The Argentine Trade mark Law has recently been amended to give more agility and efficiency to the prosecution of trade mark applications. The implementing decree of the Trade Mark Act 22,362, in effect since 1981, has been modified by Presidential Decree No 1141 issued in December 2003.
  • On December 2 2003 the State Council of the People's Republic of China published new Regulations on Customs Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (the new Regulations), which will come into force on March 1 2004.
  • Unlike the US, Japan recognizes an employee's right to remuneration for inventions, causing companies some concern. Michael R Kelly and Naoki Yoshida of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner explain
  • As he prepares to leave the Office in June this year, outgoing EPO President Ingo Kober speaks to Stéphanie Bodoni about the growth in applications, the possibility of a Community Patent and the role of patent offices