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The Malaysian government is currently actively encouraging the creation and monetisation of intellectual property. 1 February 2014
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Piracy has been about for hundreds of years and has kept up with time. Instead of being (solely) active on the high seas, it now targets copyrighted material available on the Internet. 1 February 2014
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Preliminary discussions took place in the Japan Patent Office (JPO) in 2013 to change Japan’s patent law, based on the report entitled Toward Early Acquisition of Strong and Stable Patent Rights and Improvement of User-Friendliness, issued by the JPO’s Patent System Subcommittee in February 2013. 1 February 2014
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The inventive step of an invention always takes centre stage when prosecuting patent applications or enforcing patent rights in Taiwan. 1 November 2013
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On July 1, 2013, the Japan Patent Office revised its Examination Guidelines concerning “requirements for unity of inventions”, “amendment that changes a specific technical feature of an invention”, and the “examination procedure” relating to said unity requirement and ACSTFs. 1 November 2013
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In September, the Brazilian patent and trademark office filed 33 lawsuits seeking to invalidate more than 200 patents owned by about 120 foreign companies, covering important products sold in the country. 1 November 2013
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From a legal perspective, what happens in a situation when genuine articles manufactured by the actual manufacturer, such as high pressure vessels or electrical goods, are imported into South Africa, but where the manufacturer’s labels have been removed and replaced with falsified labels which bear fictitious serial numbers, and do not specify the electrical, oil and refrigerant information which is critical to safe and efficient installation and operation of the goods, but which bear the manufacturer’s trademarks? 1 November 2013
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The first instance administrative court had agreed with the nullity action of the trademark, but the second instance changed this verdict because it does not make sense to annul a trademark which is also an appellation of origin, even if it is stipulated in the IP law. 1 November 2013
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Australia is the first country in the world to have mandatory plain packaging for tobacco products. Tobacco packs in Australia have to be olive green, with 75 percent of the front and 90 percent of the back covered in health warnings and pictures of the effects of tobacco use. The European parliament has proposed similar rules in revisions to the Tobacco Products Directive. 1 November 2013
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On May 25, 2012, the Mexican Senate approved the accession of Mexico to the Madrid Protocol. 1 November 2013
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