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As yet another supermarket challenges a brand owner over grey goods, Sandra McDonald analyzes the results of a new survey on the attitude of businesses towards exhaustion

Monarch Company Inc (Monarch) owns the registered trade marks "KICKAPOO" and "KICKAPOO JOY JUICE" in Singapore for "non-alcoholic beverages" . Monarch´ s predecessors had licensed National Aerated Water Co Pte Ltd (NAW) to manufacture and sell carbonated bottled drinks under the trade mark "KICKAPOO JOY JUICE" in Singapore and Malaysia. The licence was immediately terminable by Monarch should NAW use any syllable or part of the term "KICKAPOO JOY JUICE" on any goods other than those belonging to Monarch. Subsequently, NAW started bottling and selling another soft drink called "KICK" for a third party, RCC. Upon discovering this, Monarch terminated the licence. NAW nevertheless continued to bottle and sell "KICK" and "KICKAPOO JOY JUICE" soft drinks.

Biotech leader Genentech has an R&D budget of over $300 million.

It is a requirement of Australian patent law that patent claims be fairly based on matter described in the specification. Therefore, claims that are wider in scope than the invention described in the specification, or claims that do not include a feature described as being essential in the specification are considered to lack fair basis.

Alexander Vogele, Partner, Andreas Grohn and Michael Pinkus, Attorney at KPMG Frankfurt look at e-commerce and permanent establishments, and the economic connection between them.

Trade mark dilution is an ever-expanding concept in the US.

The EU Copyright Directive and the E-Commerce Directive contradict each other on the question of ISP liability, argue Mark Owen and Richard Penfold of Harbottle & Lewis in London

The rapid expansion of e-commerce is forcing countries to look again at how to regulate trade and intellectual property. By Fernando Becerril of Becerril, Coca & Becerril, Mexico City

José Carlos Erdozain of Gomez-Acebo & Pombo in Madrid offers a Spanish perspective on how the law is coping with the Internet revolution