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Congress boosts protection for rights owners

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.

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 1999

Slogans and trade marks

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).

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 1999

Parallel imports important update

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.

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 1999

Threatening behaviour

The English law of threats enables a defendant to turn the tables on his attacker. But is it working? In the light of new litigation rules and the spread of domain name conflicts, Mark Elmslie calls for reform

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 1999

China sides with foreign trade mark owners

Cases concerning infringement of overseas companies’ trade marks in China jumped by more than 30% in the first half of this year compared to the first six months of 1998, according to a report from the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) in Beijing. Out of a total of 713 breaches of trade mark law throughout China in the first six months of this year, 690 cases concerned marks owned by foreign companies.

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 1999

Venezuela presses for TRIPs extension

The Venezuelan government is to ask its regional neighbours to support a request to the WTO to postpone the deadline for developing countries to comply with the TRIPs agreement.

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 1999

Comment-The WTO’s millennium bug

It will come as no surprise to rights owners to hear that Venezuela’s government has asked for an extension to the January 1 2000 TRIPs deadline. Since TRIPs was negotiated in 1992, it has become increasingly obvious that many developing countries lack either the will or the means to fulfil completely their obligations and implement new legislation.

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 1999

Protecting trade marks in non-Roman script

Legal relations concerning the protection of word trade marks in non-Roman script are regulated in Ukraine mainly by the Law "On the Protection of Rights to Marks for Goods and Services" (the Law) and the "Rules on Compiling, Filing and Examining an Application for Grant of a Certificate of Ukraine on a Mark for Goods and Services" (the Rules).

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 1999

New law to govern information society

On July 28, Royal Decree no 1289, of July 23, creating the Information Society and Inter-ministerial New Technologies Commission entered into force in Spain.

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 1999

Protecting geographical indications

A geographical indication may be protected by registering it at the State Office for Inventions and Trade Marks, as per the Law no 84/1998 or as per the international conventions to which Romania is a part, only if there exists a close connection between the goods referred to and by the geographical indication and the place of origin thereof with regard to quality, reputation or other characteristics of the goods.

Managing IP Correspondent, August 31 1999

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