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With 1 billion potential consumers and awell-established legal framework, India has longbeen viewed as an important emerging market.However, it is only since the judiciary shook off itsconservative approach in the past few years thatreal progress has been made
The economic downturns that affected Europe andthe United States in the last decade have largely passedAustralia by. This has been good news for the country’strademark practitioners
With 80 years’ experience in protecting its intellectualproperty, ICI is no slouch when it comes to lookingafter its brands. Trademark counsel Paul Johnstonunfolds a tale of fast-paced product lines, emotivemarkets and a very special dog…
Practitioners go because of the opportunities tomeet their clients or agents, network and updatetheir trademark education. But when it comes downto it, what makes the INTA meeting so special andsuccessful is the people themselves
With record levels of trademark applications, this is atesting time for Australia’s national IP office – butlegislative, policy and technological innovation shouldsee IP Australia pass with flying colours
The latest court decision in the dispute over theAPPLE mark and logo has thrown light on coexistenceagreements and the possibility of litigation betweenparties, even when the parties had hoped to avoidsuch disputes by entering into an agreement inthe first place
Proving actual dilution before the US courts is a trickyproposition. Even the lower standard of likelihood ofdilution provided under the pending FederalTrademark Dilution Revision Act will not guaranteesuccess if plaintiffs do not get to grips with the basicprinciples of survey evidence
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As more Asian economies open up andbrand owners start looking to Asia notonly for production but also for marketsfor their products, it is increasinglyimportant for brand owners tounderstand the interface that theirbrand will have with the local languageand culture
When it comes to choosing a productname, marketeers want somethingsufficiently descriptive of the productfor consumers to make the connection,while trademark practitioners wantsomething they can protect. Can theseexpectations ever meet?
Many people in the United Kingdom,it seems, are not convinced that fightingIP crime is a priority. Some of them maybe advising the government
False identification through the onlineuse of well-known trademarks is apersistent, if not growing, problem.Difficulties relating to detection,jurisdiction and speed of occurrencemean that, in some respects, the law isill equipped to deal with the problem
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It is 10 years since the Community trademark was launched. Since then,it has helped transform European trademark practice. Experiencedpractitioners from the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland and Italydiscuss the impact it has had
