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  • Justin Hughes, assistant professor of law, Cardozo School of Law, US
  • The English Court of Appeal (CoA) has handed down what could, in time, be seen as a watershed decision on the registrability as trade marks of words and phrases that have descriptive connotations, messages and/or meanings.
  • Stéphanie Bodoni, London and Sam Mamudi, New York
  • For many years international IP owners struggled to retain the use of their rights in India. Even the courts weren't the most helpful. As India becomes more international, the situation is changing quickly, argue S Chakraborty and A Bose
  • Infringers of IP rights in India no longer have it all their own way. More and more civil and criminal remedies are available to rights owners now and they are using them, says Nikhil Krishnamurty
  • The 1995 US Federal Trademark Dilution Act was meant to give brand owners greater powers to defend themselves, but a Supreme Court ruling has highlighted the law's shortcomings. Sam Mamudi investigates whether legislative change is now needed
  • Legislators and enforcers of IP rights worldwide have struggled with one eternal question of where to draw the line between the overlapping areas of protection afforded by copyright law and design law to two/three-dimensional industrial products with external, eye-appealing features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to them.
  • On March 3 2003, the Competitiveness Council of Ministers of the European Communities reached agreement on a "common political approach" concerning the proposed Community patent. This "common political approach" includes the main outlines of the system of jurisdiction whereby a centralized Community Court would rule on disputes, the language regimes, costs, the role of national patent offices and the distribution of fees.
  • For the last three months applicants have been able to apply for quick and cheap protection across the EU, using the new Community design. But filings have so far been below expectations. Stéphanie Bodoni investigates
  • The ECJ has examined trade mark dilution law directly for only the second time. The Court's view has been hailed as surprising and even revolutionary, giving brand owners rights for which the legislation did not expressly provide. Alastair Shaw examines whether the case signals a radical change in European trade mark protection