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  • Compound marks are those formed by two or more words. When a third party adds a word to a nominative trade mark that is already registered, the result must be a mark that is sufficiently distinctive for it to be registered as a new mark, and there must be no danger of it being confused with the products identified with the mark that had been previously registered.
  • A cigarette company has proved use to fight off an attempt to register a mark similar to one of its products. This is in spite of failing with its own application. Owners of foreign trade marks in Singapore should gain confidence from the result, writes Farah Namazie
  • Technology was the driving force behind some of the year’s most interesting cases, but others have made their mark in the drama stakes or for their impact on consumers. From India to Indonesia, South Africa and the US, James Nurton, Ralph Cunningham and Ingrid Hering look at what was a year of intriguing and often exciting litigation
  • The German Trademark Act (section 8(2)) states that trade marks cannot be registered in the following situations:
  • "A world patent is the eventual aim but this is difficult in the near future"
  • Interview: James Rogan James Rogan, the new director of the USPTO, speaks to Sam Mamudi about being at the helm of one of the most influential IP organizations in the world at a time of enormous challenge and growth
  • During the past decades, the world has been observing the phenomenon of globalization. Large corporations have joined forces to multiply their profits or to avoid negative financial performance and new corporations have resulted from such joint ventures and mergers.
  • A rare glimpse into the workings of the USPTO reveals an organization rich in history and poised on the threshold of change. Sam Mamudi visits the Arlington agency and finds out what makes it tick
  • A company’s infrastructure is like a spider’s web in which information must be trapped and digested. This image conveys aptly one of the most challenging aspects of an IP manager’s job: capturing invention information, writes Janice Denoncourt
  • As patent applications soar, patent office leaders and lawmakers are considering new ways to make the process of obtaining protection more efficient. James Nurton reports from the WIPO Patent Conference in Geneva