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The crimes of corruption and unfair competition are covered in Brazilian law, but interpretation is complex, as George Mendonça de Lucena explains. 29 September 2014
Patents
Igor Simões and Ana Góis offer an analysis of the latest legal proposal to amend Brazil’s IP law. 29 September 2014
Copyright
A dispute over a copyright-protected image of fire fighters during the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the US has engulfed broadcaster Fox News for the second time in a year. 25 September 2014
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The coming into force of the Nagoya Protocol in October will have great benefits for the defence of indigenous people’s rights over their resources, and strengthen India’s already robust protective measures, says Vikrant Rana. 22 September 2014
Trademarks
Determining a brand’s value is increasingly important, not only for financial reporting, merger and acquisition and litigation reasons, but also to improve brand strategy, as Maria José Cruz explains. 22 September 2014
Trademarks
The protection of ‘Just do it’ and ‘Because you’re worth it’ is a contested area of Indian IP practice, as Sudeep Chatterjee and Jaya Mandelia report. 22 September 2014
Patents
Another attempt to clamp down on abusive patent litigation in the US has stalled. So why did it fail and where does the anti-patent troll movement go from here? WIPR weighs up the options. 22 September 2014
Patents
Recent orders of the Competition Commission of India asking its director general to investigate alleged anti-competitive conduct raise issues lying at the convergence of patent rights and competition. Shraddha Singh Chauhan and Archana Shanker examine the implications. 22 September 2014
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Canada’s IP regime has been regularly criticised by the US. Change has been rapid since Sylvain Laporte took over as head of the Canadian IP Office, but has it been fast enough to satisfy the critics? As Toronto prepared to host 2014’s AIPPI congress, WIPR asked him what has improved and what still needs to be done. 22 September 2014
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In the speedy world of Formula One racing, protecting IP can be a daunting task. WIPR visited the headquarters of Williams Martini Racing to speak to its senior legal counsel, Christian Bedford, about how he manages it. 22 September 2014
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