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Counterfeit goods worth more than £1.5 million, including clothes and beauty products, have been seized by police during raids in the UK, according to reports. 2 October 2015
Patents
Lawyers at the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys annual congress have been discussing international harmonisation of patent law and whether the idea is a “poisoned chalice or holy grail”. 1 October 2015
Patents
Gauging NPE-related risk is becoming increasingly easy to do, particularly as the associated costs of troll behaviour are better understood. Paul Scola of RPX Corporation reports. 1 October 2015
Patents
Ahead of the IP Summit 2015 in Berlin, which takes place from December 3 to 4, 2015, conference organiser Premier Cercle provides a taste of what to expect at the event. 1 October 2015
Patents
As in many countries, Turkey has secrecy requirements for defence-related inventions due to national security reasons. Oktay Simsek of Destek Patent discusses the situation. 1 October 2015
Trademarks
As OHIM continues to revise its guidelines on trademark and design practice, while the General Court changes its procedural rules, Udo Pfleghar and Steffen Schäffner of BEST Rechtsanwälte assess the impact on users of the EU trademark system. 1 October 2015
Trademarks
Trademark owners need to ensure that their trademarks do not become a generic word for their products or services in the marketplace, as Nicoleta Tarchila of Cabinet Enpora reports. 1 October 2015
Jurisdiction reports
Many of us take for granted the lawful monopoly afforded to owners of US patents. 1 October 2015
Jurisdiction reports
A new website was one of many new things to emerge for the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) and its customers. Some of the many successful projects CIPC has embarked on have included the launching of electronic filing of trademark, patent, design and copyright applications in September 2013, and the launching of a free web-based electronic trademark search service in March 2015. 1 October 2015
Jurisdiction reports
Peru is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization, and a party to most intellectual property agreements, including the Berne Convention and Paris Convention. In June 2009, Peru officially became a Patent Cooperation Treaty member. 1 October 2015
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