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MIP, in association with Finnegan Henderson, invited three brand owners as well as lawyers from the US, China and Germany to discuss how to protect and manage brands internationally. Topics covered included famous marks, new types of marks, the Madrid Protocol, transliterations and other means of protecting brands

Canada: The Supreme Court of Canada refused to allow the Canadian Private Copying Collective to appeal a December 2004 Federal Court of Appeal decision that a levy on memory permanently embedded in digital audio recorders, commonly referred to as the piracy tax, was invalid. The tax, which Canada's Copyright Board promoted as a protection against copyright infringement, had been in place for a year.

Almost five years ago, a new Romanian Trade Mark Law came into force. One of the major novelties of the new law was the legal provision regarding the non-use cancellation of a registered mark.

Isabel Davies reveals how INTA decides when to file amicus briefs in trade mark-related cases and, below, INTA subcommittee chairs describe the impact of INTA submissions in different regions

The Canadian government has proposed changes to the regulations governing patented medicines and data exclusivity. David Heller and Adrian Zahl of Ridout & Maybee explain how the reforms will affect the research-based and generic industries

Opposition proceedings were introduced into Canada's trade mark legislation just over 50 years ago. While the opposition process functioned relatively well for the first few decades, such has not been the case recently. Gary Partington and Coleen Morrison of Marks & Clerk examine what changes lie ahead

China's rapidly evolving regulatory framework and its increasingly sophisticated courts offer a bright future to pharmaceutical companies looking to invest in China, says Sofia Chen of Bird & Bird

The recent decisions issued by the Trade Mark Re-Examination Committee of the Romanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks (SOIT) in the three cases Limo v Voslauer Biolimo, subject to appeal pending with the 5th Civil Section of the Bucharest Tribunal, will have an important impact on the question of Limo trade mark distinctiveness for products in class 32, and may represent an important instrument to be taken into account by OHIM when deciding upon the pending oppositions filed by the owner of the Limo trade mark against Community and international trade mark applications containing this term.

Norway's new Trade Mark Act is expected to enter into force on July 1 2010. The new Act mainly represents a modernisation of the old Act and codification of existing case law, but a f ew important practical aspects of the new Act should be noted.

The Court of Justice’s nuanced ruling in a dispute over the use of trademarked keywords answered some questions and raised others. Susanne Mellqvist and Maria Lagergren of Valea analyse the decision