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In June this year, Taiwan and China signed a "Cross-strait agreement on intellectual property rights cooperation and protection". The agreement was approved by the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan in August, and will come into effect after both sides have completed the respective announcement procedures.

Recently, a Romanian court issued an innovative decision retaining the defendant's bad faith in filing a sign for registration as trade mark, even though the claimant had no previous rights over the respective sign, and has only scarcely used the sign before the registration by the other party.

Gladys Mirandah and David Reed of Patrick Mirandah Co (pmc) discuss third party opposition and invalidation

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.

Luis C Schmidt of Olivares & Cia dicusses the liability of intermediaries and other problems posed by digital technology

Víctor Garrido of Dumont Bergman Bider & Co discusses the convergence and divergence between Bilski and the Mexican patent system

Three major changes to Mexico’s IP system bode well for innovation and international investment. Eileen McDermott reports

This year has seen a number of important steps for IP rights in Vietnam, beginning with amendments to the Law on Intellectual Property, which became effective on January 1 2010, and ending with substantial developments in IP enforcement. Two of the most notable developments were the first-ever court ruling on patent infringement in Vietnam and the issuance of a new decree that revises and clarifies the sanctions for IP violations.

As of July 1 2010 a national representative for an applicant who is not a resident in Norway is no longer required. The earlier requirements for a national representative set out in The Norwegian Patents Act, Design Act and Trademark Act have been deleted. The right of being represented by a national representative is now regulated by the Public Administration Act, Section 12. The Norwegian Patents Act, Design Act and Trademark Act now provide a requirement of a correspondence address of the applicant or right holder, opponent or similar. If the applicant or right holder is represented by a national representative, the correspondence address is the address of the representative. The Norwegian Industrial Property Office will forward all communications to the correspondence address by regular mail. If the mail delivery of the communication fails due to errors in the correspondence address, any term set out in the communication will still continue to run. A notice of this communication will however be made public in the Norwegian Gazette.