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Xu Ying of Beijing Wan Hui Da Law Firm explains how brand owners can use Customs to prevent counterfeits leaving China

Outgoing OHIM president Wubbo de Boer tells Emma Barraclough what the Office is doing to get better and faster, and the lessons it can offer other trade mark registries

Canon explains why it has become the first large business brand to announce its intention to apply for a gTLD

Managing IP presents its guide to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

Can the owner of an unregistered trade name sue for infringement? This was the main issue tackled by the Supreme Court in its decision issued on March 3 2010, in the case of Coffee Partners Inc vs San Francisco Coffee & Roastery, Inc (GR no 169504). Coffee Partners, a domestic corporation registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in January 2001, has a franchise agreement with Coffee Partners, a British Virgin Islands company organised in 1997, to operate coffee shops using the trade mark San Francisco Coffee. San Francisco Coffee and Roastery is also a domestic corporation engaged in the wholesale and retail sale of coffee, registered with the SEC in May 1995. It registered the business name San Francisco Coffee & Roastery Inc with the Department of Trade and Industry in June 1995, but not with the Intellectual Property Office (IPOPhil).

German company Daimler AG filed a cancellation action against Russian trade mark registration 272644 of March 6 2003 due to non-use registered in the name of an unknown Russian company. This was a seemingly routine case but not for the subject matter of the trade mark. It is a verbal mark Maibach. A very similar trade mark (Maybach) is much more familiar than the name of the Russian company which registered the slightly different mark.

Indran Shanmuganathan and Chew Chui Yiang of Shearn Delamore set out the rules protecting well-known trade marks in Malaysia

Binny Kalra and Saif Khan of Anand and Anand look at the impact of counterfeiting from an Indian perspective

Jerry Yulin Zhang of Haiwen & Partners explains how China’s tax system is relevant to the fight against counterfeiting

On March 9, the Implementing Regulation of the Italian Code of Industrial Property Rights was published. This Regulation has been eagerly awaited since 2005, since (among other changes) it finally provides the procedural rules concerning opposition procedures against the registration of Italian trade marks and international trade marks designating Italy.