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Speaking out for copyright

Interview: Marybeth Peters, US Copyright Office Ingrid Hering asks the Register of US Copyright Office about the challenges posed by the internet and digital technology

Managing IP Correspondent, September 30 2001

Survey: Latin America: On the cusp of new technologies

Patent practitioners in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico are grappling with the boom in new technologies. Ingrid Hering investigates how attorneys, patent offices and courts are coping with the new challenges

Managing IP Correspondent, September 30 2001

Survey: Asia: Hold the front page

Intellectual property has jumped from the technology page to the front page, as big stories have captured the public imagination throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Ralph Cunningham reports from Hong Kong

Managing IP Correspondent, September 30 2001

Joint venture is a first for Japan

Simmons & Simmons and TMI Associates, which was formed from the IP group of Nishimura & Partners in 1990, have formed a qualified joint venture (tokutei kyodo jigyo tai) with effect from September 12. Intellectual property will be one of the joint venture's six core practice groups along with corporate, M&A, finance, commercial and anti-trust law. Simmons & Simmons claims the alliance is the first joint venture between a major Japanese firm and a UK-based international law firm.

Managing IP Correspondent, September 30 2001

Protecting industrial designs

The protection of designs in Romania is regulated by Law 129/1992 concerning industrial designs protection. According to this law, the title of protection for designs shall be the certificate of registration of the industrial design which shall confer on its owner an exclusive right of exploitation in the territory of Romania for a period of five years starting on the date on which a regular deposit was effected and it may be renewed for two successive five-year periods of time.

Managing IP Correspondent, September 30 2001

Czech RepublicPatent litigation on the rise

Karel Cermák Jr, of Cermák Horejs and Myslil, outlines the basic features of the system of patent litigation in the Czech Republic and provide some practical hints and basic advice for companies involved in patent litigation

Managing IP Correspondent, September 30 2001

GermanyHow to reverse torpedoes in Germany

Johann Pitz, patent litigator with Vossius & Partner in Munich, explains strategies to reverse torpedoes in the German courts

Managing IP Correspondent, September 30 2001

Lawyers defy New York attack

Tom Nicholson, New York and Ralph Cunningham, Hong Kong

Managing IP Correspondent, September 30 2001

Designs set for overhaul

The perception exists in Australia that it is too easy to successfully defend a design infringement action. But Wayne Condon says that will change if Parliament passes radical reforms to the almost 100-year-old designs legislation

Managing IP Correspondent, September 30 2001

IN BRIEF: ASIA PACIFIC

Australia: Daryl Williams, the federal attorney general, announced on September 18 that Screenrights will be the sole collecting society to collect copyright royalties for retransmission of free-to-air television programmes by pay-TV services. Screenrights will be responsible for distributing royalties to the owners of copyright in the films, scripts, music, sound recordings and art works in the retransmitted programmes.

Managing IP Correspondent, September 30 2001

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