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  • Georgia is an independent state which gained independence after the disintegration of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the decade. Prior to independence, all patent matters were dealt with centrally from Moscow which inevitably affected the potential of local patent experts.
  • The Mexican Law of Industrial Property (LIP) recognizes as a source of rights to use a trade mark registration and a bona fide use prior to a filing date of a particular trade mark registration for the same or similar trade mark or prior to the date of first use mentioned by the registrant in the application papers.
  • Malaysia passed and gazetted the Franchise Act in December 1998 and it is expected to come into force in the near future. Once in force, the Franchise Act 1998 will apply throughout Malaysia to any franchise in Malaysia. At present, there is no franchise legislation and the franchise industry is supervised by the franchise division of the Malaysian government under the purview of the Ministry of Entrepreneur Development.
  • Forget patents, trade marks and copyright.
  • The world’s three biggest patent systems and WIPO are leading the march towards international cooperation.
  • Most South American countries are compliant with the TRIPs agreement and are tackling other IP issues.
  • Today, the harmonization of the patent system in Europe is desirable. Thus, although Romania is not member either of the European Patent Convention or of the European Community, we consider the Community Patent as an opportunity for obtaining equal patentability conditions and patent protection for each European country.
  • European patents cannot be divided after grant. By contrast, national German patents can be divided during opposition and opposition appeal proceedings (Section 60 of the German Patent Act). The German Federal Court of Justice has considered the dividing of granted patents in a series of recent decisions and taken the following position.
  • The Internet is the latest technological battleground in the competition between Asia’s IP firms.
  • Merger set to create world’s biggest IP firm