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  • In a unique survey, MIP set out to discover what brand owners really think about key issues such as which countries offer the best and worst protection, how to enforce rights and what qualities to look for in outside counsel. The results are revealed in a special series of reports. By James Nurton, Sam Mamudi and Emma Barraclough
  • On February 16 2004 the President of the Republic of Poland signed the Law of January 23 2004 revising the Law on Industrial Property of June 20 2000. The Law was published in the Law Gazette No 33 of March 2 2004 text No 286. It entered into effect within 14 days from the publication date that is on March 17 2004.
  • Emma Barraclough asks Rajeev Ranjan, director of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion in the Department of Commerce, about India's plans to simplify the process of registering IP rights and proposals for patent reform
  • Has trade mark protection gone too far? Are brand owners too aggressive in pursuing broad-based claims against non-competitors? MIP asked two distinguished analysts to debate the role of trade marks in society. Tom Moore, who has reservations about the use of trade mark rights, opens the correspondence, and Bruce Lehman responds
  • Jeremy Phillips reviews the most important and interesting cases from courts in the EU member states during the past year, and examines what lessons trade mark owners can learn from them
  • In a string of important decisions, the ECJ has provided rights owners with a comprehensive guide to what constitutes trade mark infringement in Europe. Ilanah Simon examines the key cases from the past year
  • The so-called cut-off effect is an important feature of EPO opposition proceedings. Reinhardt Schuster and Bernd Rupprecht explain what the cut-off effect is, and how patentees and opponents can use it to their advantage
  • In a recent Malaysian decision, Maxis Sdn Bhd v Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia & Ors [2004] 2 MLJ 84, the Maxis Group of companies (the applicant) successfully obtained an interim injunction against Maxis Sdn Bhd & 4 others (the defendants) over their use of the name Maxis.
  • The subject of contributory infringement is very relevant in France at the present time: the growth of generic drugs companies, and their desire to start marketing generic drugs as soon as the patent expires, requires months of preparation before patent expiry. But how far can they go? Can they prepare chemical intermediates ? Can they stock the product? What are big pharma's rights versus those of generic manufacturers?
  • Sam Mamudi, New York