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  • Thanks to parallel imports, distinctiveness and retail goods, it has been another busy year for Europe’s trade mark courts. Jeremy Phillips reviews the most significant cases of 1999
  • A recent Federal Circuit decision should make it easier for US trade mark owners to block the importation of grey goods. Mark S Sommers and Louis J Levy say it continues the trend of improved protection against parallel imports
  • Community Trade Mark applicants now have the benefit of a large number of decided cases. In the first of two articles, John R Olsen reveals the lessons from the Opposition Tribunal
  • The practice of registering famous marks has become a national sport in Indonesia and it shows no signs of abating. In a special report, Emily Downes tracks down the pirates – and their advisers
  • As a survey reveals that IP enforcement in Russia is as big a problem as tax and customs, rights owners are turning to the courts for support. But Emily Downes finds that there is an urgent need for improved enforcement
  • The Benelux Trade Marks Office has been forced to change its policy on registering colour marks. It is now possible to register a colour as a trade mark and to restrain third parties from using the chosen colour.
  • Apple Computer has won world-wide injunctions stopping the manufacture and sale of iMac lookalike Windows systems.
  • ICANN's new system for settling domain name disputes is already making an impact. In just a couple of months, four victories have been scored by trade mark owners seeking the cyberspace rights to their trade name.
  • If a major corporation appends its famous house mark to a registered mark owned by another party, is there a conflict? In the appeal case of Registrar of Trade Marks v Woolworths Ltd, the Full Federal of Australia, by a margin of two to one, allowed an application for WOOLWORTHS METRO to be accepted, notwithstanding several earlier METRO marks each of which related to similar goods or services. The Court, at trial and appeal, rejected the Registrar's contention that the marks were deceptively similar.
  • One of the most common questions asked by foreign clients is: "What is an Amparo suit?" Often the answer from most Mexican lawyers to avoid further explanation is: an appeal.