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  • A US court has ordered SmithKline Beecham to stop selling the varicella zoster chicken pox vaccine in the US and Canada for the next three years.
  • The Senate and the House of Representatives each passed IP bills in August designed to increase the odds in favour of trade mark and patent owners.
  • The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has been active this summer in many areas of patent law. Some of its most noteworthy holdings are briefly reviewed below:
  • It will come as no surprise to rights owners to hear that Venezuela’s government has asked for an extension to the January 1 2000 TRIPs deadline. Since TRIPs was negotiated in 1992, it has become increasingly obvious that many developing countries lack either the will or the means to fulfil completely their obligations and implement new legislation.
  • Legal relations concerning the protection of word trade marks in non-Roman script are regulated in Ukraine mainly by the Law "On the Protection of Rights to Marks for Goods and Services" (the Law) and the "Rules on Compiling, Filing and Examining an Application for Grant of a Certificate of Ukraine on a Mark for Goods and Services" (the Rules).
  • On July 28, Royal Decree no 1289, of July 23, creating the Information Society and Inter-ministerial New Technologies Commission entered into force in Spain.
  • A geographical indication may be protected by registering it at the State Office for Inventions and Trade Marks, as per the Law no 84/1998 or as per the international conventions to which Romania is a part, only if there exists a close connection between the goods referred to and by the geographical indication and the place of origin thereof with regard to quality, reputation or other characteristics of the goods.
  • The Industrial Designs Act 1996 of Malaysia (IDA) was passed in September 1996 and is expected to come into force on September 1 1999. The IDA will introduce an independent regime for the protection of industrial designs in Malaysia repealing existing legislation which allows for the automatic protection of industrial designs obtained in the UK under the UK Designs Act 1949.
  • Adopting marks consisting of a slogan is becoming more frequent every day. These types of trade mark which we call slogan-marks are admissible in Italy on the condition that they possess the requisites provided for by the Italian Trade Mark Law for registration (a trade mark has to b distinctive and not deceptive, etc).
  • Frits Bolkestein, the new European commissioner in charge of intellectual property, is in for a bumpy ride. With controversial issues piling up in his in-tray, and close attention from the European parliament and industry guaranteed, he has a lot to prove. Ralph Cunningham reports