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From January 10, 2016 comparative advertisements will be allowed in Turkey. Provided certain conditions are met, adverts will be allowed to include competitors’ titles, trademarks, logos or other distinguishing marks or phrases, as well as trade names and company names. It will be the first time in Turkey’s history that companies can publish and broadcast true comparative advertisements. 18 December 2015
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Patent invalidity can be raised as a defence in civil proceedings. If a civil court invalidates the patent at issue, the patentee loses the ground against the opposing party at that very civil proceeding. However, such a patent invalidation issued by the civil court applies only to each particular case. 18 December 2015
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The new Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill 2015 has now been published for public comment by the minister of justice and correctional services. 18 December 2015
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At the end of 2014, part four of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, which deals with intellectual property, was significantly updated. Since many of the amendments were conceptual in nature, there was a need for a substantial reworking of the regulations at the level of the supervisory authority, the Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent). 18 December 2015
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Although the video platform Popcorn Time seems likely to fall under worldwide pressure for copyright infringement proceedings, a Dutch movie distributor, Dutch FilmWorks, is taking other measures: it has registered both the ‘Popcorn Time’ name and logo as trademarks in the Benelux region. 18 December 2015
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It is very common to find inventions in different technological fields that involve the use of a computer or processor, which control the operation of such inventions or process the data involved in the invention’s operation. 18 December 2015
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Currently 79 countries are party to the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure. 18 December 2015
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The system of opposing the grant of a patent, which allows any person to file an opposition within six months from the date of publication in the Patent & Utility Model Gazette, has been in force since April 1, 2015. As of October 21, 2015, the number of oppositions filed has reached 119. 18 December 2015
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On September 11, the Supreme Court of Cassation in Italy handed down its ruling in Società Consortile Fonografici v Marco Del Corso, a case that a few years ago resulted in an important judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on copyright law and, in particular, on the interpretation of the concept of “communication to the public” and rights of compensation. 18 December 2015
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The medical device industry in India is estimated to be worth around $3 billion and is expected to grow substantially, with a wide variety of life-saving and non-life saving medical devices including domestic as well as imported products. Imported products account for about 75% of total sales. 18 December 2015
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