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The Korean government has traditionally held the rights to inventions in national and public universities. But new technology transfer legislation will change that. Researchers will now have an incentive to commercialize their inventions, writes Man-Gi Paik

"A world patent is the eventual aim but this is difficult in the near future"

Lucian Enescu In Romania, the holder of a previously registered trade mark (or application), or of a notorious trade mark may, under law no 84/1998, file an opposition to the registration of a new trade mark (within three months from the date when it was published in the Official Gazette). The opponent may consider the new sign as being prejudicial to their previous right if it is identical or similar to their own trade mark or if it protects identical or similar products as the ones protected by their own trade mark. An assessment in the case of identical marks is simpler. For similar trade marks, three possible types of similarity must be considered when analyzing a new trade mark for registration: visual, phonetic and semantic.

Dr Gavin D Recchia and Dr Andrew N Blattman of Ella Cheong Mirandah & Sprusons in Singapore examine how to obtain protection for genes in Singapore

Milan Kraus, of PATENTSERVIS Praha, reviews the most important changes in protecting IP rights in the Czech Republic, paying special regard to biotechnology

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Ralph Cunningham, Hong Kong

Hector Chagoya and Armando Gomez of Becerril Coca & Becerril in Mexico City explain how to claim priority from consecutive applications in Mexico

Following our article on generic domains in Europe in the February issue, Martin Schwimmer examines how the USPTO and US courts have treated trade mark applications consisting of domain names

If the subject-matter of a granted German patent is an invention for which a European patent to the same inventor or its successor in law has been granted (which has the same priority and is valid in Germany) then the German patent becomes ineffective to the extent to which it protects the same invention as the European patent. This happens (1) at the end of the opposition period of the European patent, provided no opposition has been filed, or (2) at the end of European opposition proceedings, provided the European patent has been (at least partially) maintained, or (3) when the German patent is granted after (1) or (2).