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Secondary evidence can play a vital role in patent litigation.

Intellectual property owners could slash more than £50,000 ($80,500) from their costs in a UK High Court patent trial following a May decision by the Lord Chancellor to grant patent agents certain litigation rights.

Though the NBA seeks to promote its brand abroad, looking after its rights in the US is still a critical part of Kathryn Barrett Park’s job.

Authorities unveil new trade mark measures.

Wasted opportunties The last few weeks have seen domain names take centre stage with a major WIPO report on the subject and the liberalization of the registration process. But, Ralph Cunningham discovers, not everybody is happy

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Amidst political turmoil sweeping across the country and stiff negotiations with the IMF the former Russian Government did not leave without attention attention to the problems of intellectual property. It was aware of the necessity to keep a more attentive eye on those issues. Several weeks ago it issued a Decree No 413. The Decree concerns copyright and neighbouring rights.

The Romanian Law no 84/1998 on Trade Marks and Geographical Indications introduces major changes in the conditions of extinction of trade marks rights.

Increasingly, the decisions of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reflect the need for patent applicants, particularly non US-based applicants, to be assisted by a lawyer who is a skilled linguist. This is a natural outgrowth of the now-established principle that patent claim interpretation is a matter of law to be determined independently by the courts at each level of the litigation process (Cybor v FAS Technologies, 138 F 3d 1448 (Fed Cir 1998 en banc); Markman v Westview Instruments, 52 F 3d 967 (Fed Cir 1995 en banc); affirmed 517 US 370 (1996).

In 1974, the office of the United States Trade Representative was mandated to identify and pursue countries which did not offer adequate protection to US right owners.