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  • Better safe than sorry: even companies with no immediate intention of doing business in China should register their trade marks there. If not they could find themselves paying a lot of money in the future to prove fame, warns Gary Fechter
  • Patent applications in biotechnology have grown dramatically in the past decade, throwing up many challenges and posing new problems for patent offices. Ingrid Hering speaks to examiners at the EPO and USPTO to find out how they are dealing with these issues
  • The realities of market economics in Romania and the free play of supply and demand mean that there is always the danger of dishonest means being used to attract customers. This makes industrial property protection and the protection (or apparent protection) of trade marks a key area. However, there are numerous interferences in trade mark and industrial design, especially in the domain of bi- and three-dimensional figurative marks, mainly those concerning labels, the form of products and their packaging.
  • Stephen Gare of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw in London examines how best to enforce IP rights in the UK, in the light of reforms to the court system
  • Despite the introduction of the EU Biotechnology Directive, there remains opposition to biotech patents in Germany. Mathias Ricker reviews a recent EPO decision which provides guidance for applicants
  • The Community Trade Mark Office in Alicante (Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market or OHIM) has appointed Bruno Machado to the new post of Boards of Appeal president, MIP has learned. His appointment has been recommended by OHIM's Administration Board and will be formally announced in June, after it has been confirmed by the EU Council of Ministers.
  • Wilbert Derks of Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White in London explains why the Netherlands is worth considering when acquiring and defending IP rights in Europe
  • A wealth of IP rights exists in innovations from the developing world, particularly in biodiversity inventions. The battle has always been to secure access to those rights. India’s Honey Bee Network is one organization fighting for a fairer system. Ralph Cunningham reports
  • The International Nice Classification allows all entities which are part of the Nice Convention to unify under one criteria the classification of goods and services to be protected with a trade mark.
  • Margareta Oproiu of Cabinet Oproiu in Bucharest explains the main provisions of the amendments to the Romanian Patents Act which come into force in August this year