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Chiron has won the latest round in its marathon battle with Roche over biotechnology patents. On May 18, the Landgericht(district court) in Dusseldorf, ruled that Roche's Amplicor HIV PCR tests infringed Chiron's European patent number 181 150.

When clients want to seize products in Mexico during a fair or exposition, the problem arises of obtaining authorization within a couple of days at most.

Trinidad and Tobago is a more attractive litigation forum than it first appears. Brien de Gannes, of JD Sellier & Company in Port of Spain, provides an insight into resolving trade mark disputes in the country

Brazil has thrown off its poor reputation for protecting trade marks. Rodrigo Caiuby Novaes, of Clarke, Modet & Co in Rio de Janeiro, reveals how the new industrial property law has transformed registration practice

The internet is throwing up all sorts of challenges to intellectual property owners. In an exclusive interview, James Nurton and Ralph Cunningham ask MCI WorldCom’s Vinton G Cerf, one of the net’s founders, if technology can help solve the legal problems

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Christian Harmsen, of Wessing & Berenberg-Gossler examines what impact the Yplon case will have on trade mark protection in Germany

Elvis is a powerful brand, maybe the most powerful. In the battle to exploit it, one man has travelled the world and questioned the limits of trade mark protection. James Nurton tells Sid Shaw’s story

According to the Benelux Trade Marks Act, the owner of a trade mark can in principle not prohibit the use of his trade mark in respect of goods that have been put into circulation within the European Economic Area either by himself or with his permission. (exhaustion principle). This means that in principle the owner of a trade mark right cannot invoke this exclusive title in respect of the further trade in goods originating from him. The Benelux Court of Justice has recently explained the exhaustion principle in more detail in its Kipling/GB Unie judgment (The Benelux Court of Justice, December 6 2000).