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The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted the Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions bill at its 40th session in December 2007.

The UK’s latest IP review will focus on how IP rights can help “drive economic growth”, according to the man tasked with leading it

Varicom Communications, an Israel company, filed a patent application (IL 135684) in Israel. Over the course of the year, the idea was developed somewhat, and a PCT application claiming priority from the Israel application but with added material, was filed.

With the increasing realisation among stakeholders of the importance of IP rights, we have seen a large number of disputes pertaining to its protection and preservation. It may not be surprising to see disputes involving two or more such rights. An example is the overlap between copyright and designs, which has been rightly dealt with in Section 15(2) of the law addressing the possibility of an artistic work (so copyright) being adopted as a design and enjoying larger protection than a registered design. The section rightly stipulates that once an article has been reproduced industrially 50 times, an artistic work ceases to enjoy either design or copyright protection.

There has recently been an increasing interest in bringing IP and R&D teams closer together.

Under German law, reinstatement of rights is only possible under specific conditions as regards content and the terms of the request. The request must be filed within two weeks from the notice of lapse of right, but within one year from the actual lapse. The intention of the latter term is to ensure legal certainty, and is usually handled very strictly.

The total number of patent filings in China by foreign parties has exceeded 1 million. The breakdown for inventions, utility model and design patents is roughly about 865,000, 16,000 and 121,000 respectively. The three top filing countries are Japan, the US and Germany. The number of filings has increased considerably in recent years. In 2005, it was only 500,000. Between January and August this year, China saw a year-on-year increase of 12.9%.

The right to one's own name is not often subject to Supreme Court decisions. However, recently the Austrian Supreme Court had to decide on two different cases regarding the assignment of rights to the own name and the interpretation of licence agreements concerning those rights.

The Argentine Patent law was amended in 2004, under an agreement made between the Argentina and US governments within a WTO consultation. These amendments were primarily related to the procedural requirements for temporary injunctions.

The Uganda Trademarks Act 2010 has been brought into force. The Registry started receiving service mark applications on September 29 2010. The event brings closure to a year of alarms and excursions.