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The Philippines is about to get its first taste of domain name litigation. On September 27, the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) sued Gerry Kaimo and the Philippine League for Democratic Communications (PLDTI) to secure ownership of the pldt.com domain name

People, Laws and Courts

Customs - the INTA's perspective

For pharma patent owners, things are suddenly looking brighter in Russia. Following a series of defeats for plaintiffs, on October 18, Pfizer won an injunction against Indian company Dr Reddy's Laboratories prohibiting manufacture and sale of its Stamlo product.

he ECJ decision in Pharmacia & Upjohn v Paranova has been awaited with interest by the pharmaceutical industry. The decision, which was handed down on October 12, offers more hope to pharmaceutical companies in the battle against parallel importers than was expected. The ECJ has found that re-branding by a parallel importer to match the brand used in the country of import (where this differs from the country of export) cannot be challenged by the brand owner if such re-branding is objectively necessary in order that the parallel imported product may be marketed in the country of import.

In a recent decision of the appeals division of the Trade Mark Registry, the proprietor of a well known trade mark has for the first time since the introduction of the Trade Marks Act 1994 (TMA 1994) succeeded in preventing a third party from registering the same name for a completely different product.

New legislation governing the use of electronic signatures came into force in Spain in the form of Royal Decree Law 14/1999, on September 18 1999.

Federal Circuit claim construction rulings with interesting aspects continue to emerge. Among the most recent ones worthy of note are two which demonstrate a worrisome trend on the part of at least some Federal Circuit judges to focus upon specific claim language rather than determining what the whole claim means.

Georgia is an independent state which gained independence after the disintegration of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the decade. Prior to independence, all patent matters were dealt with centrally from Moscow which inevitably affected the potential of local patent experts.

According to Law No 84/1998 on Trade Marks and Geographical Indications, a mark of certification is a mark indicating the fact that the products or services for which it is used are certificated by the owner of the mark concerning quality, material, the way of manufacturing of products or services carried out, accuracy or other characteristics.