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Trademarks
Brazilian courts are currently competent at handling trade dress disputes, but they may have to tackle more difficult issues as technology advances, say Robert Daniel-Shores and Roberta Arantes of Daniel Advogados. 29 November 2016
Patents
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to investigate whether high-potency sweeteners from China infringe patents owned by Celanese, a specialty materials company. 28 November 2016
Copyright
Denmark-based MPI Tech, a provider of document management solutions, has targeted International Business Machines and Crawford Technologies in a copyright infringement lawsuit. 28 November 2016
Trademarks
Car manufacturer Rolls-Royce has hit out at a car dealer and repair shop, accusing the company of trademark infringement and unfair competition. 28 November 2016
Trademarks
Connected by the Andes mountain range, the Andean countries comprise Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, and their IP systems are governed by Decision 486 of the Andean Community Commission, as Alfredo Barreda of Barreda Moller explains to WIPR. 28 November 2016
Trademarks
Countries inside Europe but outside the EU may need to define an EU-related IP strategy, as Switzerland has done, says Jürg Simon of Lenz & Staehelin. 28 November 2016
Trademarks
Britain’s vote to leave the EU could have huge implications for IP, including trademarks, but there is still much uncertainty and many unanswered questions. Simon Miles of Edwin Coe reports. 25 November 2016
Trademarks
Following an amendment in 2013, China’s trademark opposition procedure has made it cheaper and quicker to register marks in the country, say Lynn Wang of Peksung Intellectual Property Group and Catherine Wang of Dayup Intellectual Property, who discuss the value of the current system. 25 November 2016
Jurisdiction reports
On August 4, 2016, Taiwan’s Executive Yuan (the executive branch of central government) passed a draft amendment to the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act (Amendment), which was proposed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. This amendment was drafted in response to Taiwan’s negotiations on joining the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal. 24 November 2016
Jurisdiction reports
In Mexico, the use of a trademark registration is an obligation for its owner or licensee. 24 November 2016
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