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  • Apple triumphs in Japanese design battle
  • For the first time ever the MPA (Motion Picture Association), which represents Hollywood’s seven leading film studios around the world, is instituting civil proceedings in Hong Kong to recover losses from optical disc piracy. In another first, the MPA is joined in the action by the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry): the two organizations have never jointly taken part in a civil action before.
  • The Senate and the House of Representatives each passed IP bills in August designed to increase the odds in favour of trade mark and patent owners.
  • Frits Bolkestein, the new European commissioner in charge of intellectual property, is in for a bumpy ride. With controversial issues piling up in his in-tray, and close attention from the European parliament and industry guaranteed, he has a lot to prove. Ralph Cunningham reports
  • Adopting marks consisting of a slogan is becoming more frequent every day. These types of trade mark which we call slogan-marks are admissible in Italy on the condition that they possess the requisites provided for by the Italian Trade Mark Law for registration (a trade mark has to b distinctive and not deceptive, etc).
  • IP managers are always looking for new means of financing. Carmen R Eggleston and Susan Barbieri Montgomery say collateralization can be an attractive option, especially if managers have made their IP more attractive to lenders
  • As the clock winds down for 1999, researchers in Denmark have to hurry if they want to keep their IP rights for their inventions. The Danish parliament passed a new act on May 25 1999 with effect from July 1 1999. This act applies to inventions made after January 1 2000, and gives an employer (the institution or university) the option to claim the IP rights for an invention made by an employee (the researcher).
  • Is it possible to reconcile proprietary rights with the need for industry standards? Brian N Kearsey and John MacNaughton reveal how the telecoms industry has achieved the impossible – and set an example for other sectors
  • The Industrial Designs Act 1996 of Malaysia (IDA) was passed in September 1996 and is expected to come into force on September 1 1999. The IDA will introduce an independent regime for the protection of industrial designs in Malaysia repealing existing legislation which allows for the automatic protection of industrial designs obtained in the UK under the UK Designs Act 1949.
  • MIP (April 1999) reported the decision in Montana Tyres Rims and Tubes Pty Ltd v Transport Tyre Sales Pty Ltd. The appeal decision of the Full Federal Court has now been published.