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A measure to reduce fees for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for requests for substantive examinations and annuities, set out in the Industrial Competitiveness Enhancement Act that was adopted on December 4, 2013 by Japan’s Diet, came into effect on April 1, 2014. The measure will remain in effect until March 31, 2018. 29 July 2014
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European Patent Office applications reached a new all-time high in 2013 and the number of applications in Finland was the third highest in Europe measured by applications per million inhabitants. 29 July 2014
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Over the past few years, the Asia Pacific region has seen much activity in the area of competition law. In Malaysia, the Competition Act 2010 (CA) came into force on January 1, 2012. 29 July 2014
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Article 7/1-ı of the Turkish Trademark Decree Law no. 556 established a legal basis in 1995 for the Turkish Patent Institute (TPI) to refuse trademark applications on the basis that an application is similar to a well-known trademark. However, at the time, there was no mechanism available to the TPI for establishing whether a given trademark was well known or not. 29 July 2014
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Where shall we start? Perhaps with the good news. Canada’s trademark legislation has a peculiar creature known as an official mark. 29 July 2014
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The Court of Justice of the European Union rendered an important decision on May 13, 2014 (Case C-11/12), in a case involving the Google search engine, highlighting the difficulties of reconciling trade and the protection of individuals when it is necessary for their data to circulate. 29 July 2014
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On April 24, 2014, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress ratified the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances, which was signed in Beijing on June 24, 2012 at the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Diplomatic Conference on the Protection of Audiovisual Performances. 29 July 2014
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As treaties and courts are founded, the resulting jurisprudence requires treaties and courts gradually to change. 29 July 2014
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The US patent bar was taken by surprise when the US Supreme Court handed down two unanimous and pivotal decisions on April 29 29 July 2014
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Border measures have become a commercial weapon for patent right holders in recent years, especially for the mobile phone manufacturers that have attempted to ban the importation of their competitors’ products by seeking injunctive relief from the US International Trade Commission (USITC). 1 June 2014
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