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Worldwide forum on trade mark protection, Geneva, Switzerland, December 1-2. Details at www.inta.org

The 15th ASIPI Congress attracted more than 600 delegates to Mexico City from November 16 to 20. Discussions included the Madrid Protocol, IP licensing, image rights, ecommerce dispute resolution, generics, and antitrust.

The bankruptcy reform Organic Act 8/2003, published on July 9 this year, amended the Organic Act of the Judiciary and set up the commercial courts and the Community Trade Mark Court.

As from January 1 2004 essential changes will be introduced in the Polish structure of jurisdiction and two Acts will come into force - the Act on the Structure of Common Courts of Law and the Act on Administrative Procedure. Administrative jurisdiction will be a two-tiered one. Up to now the only court in control of administrative issues has been the Supreme Administrative Court. As from next year there will also be regional administrative courts. The necessity to introduce two-tiered administrative jurisdiction derives from the provisions of the new Constitution of the Republic of Poland adopted in 1997. These legal changes will exert substantial influence on issues related to industrial property protection in Poland, including trade marks. Along with these Acts entering into force, the Law on Industrial Property that applies, among others, to trade mark protection will also change.

In a judgment handed down in the case of Class International v SmithKline Beecham on 28 August 2003, the Court of Appeal at The Hague posed six preliminary questions for the ECJ. Our firm handles this case on behalf of GlaxoSmithKline.

The revamped trade mark law in Hong Kong promises a smoother opposition system that is more efficient and offers better protection, explain Ella Cheong and Chloe Lee

Claims such as "the number one" and "the best" are among those frequently made by advertisers for their products and services. Timothy Pinto examines what such claims mean and whether or not they are legal

There are two results of prosecuting trade mark applications in any part of the world: either you obtain a registration, or you do not. However, in Mexico there has not been a trade mark denial resulting from not overcoming citations or registrability objections for about 10 years.

The Singapore-based company and trade mark applicant, Future Enterprises, has for the second time in less than a year faced opposition to its three marks comprising the words "MacTea", "MacNoodles" and "MacChocolate" together with a "device of an eagle" in class 30.

India's new Trade Marks Act provides protection of an international standard. Confusion exists, however, about the constitution of the new appellate board system to deal with the appeals of trade mark registry decisions, explains Ranjan Narula