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A person who uses or reproduces a work, without conventional or legal authorisation, may be harming the copyright holder. 1 October 2011
Jurisdiction reports
US Congress enacted the TDRA in 2006 following the US Supreme Court’s 2003 decision in Moseley v V Secret Catalogue, Inc, which held that the FTDA required “a showing of actual dilution, rather than a likelihood of dilution”. 1 October 2011
Jurisdiction reports
A patentable invention needs to meet the requirements of novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability. 1 October 2011
Patents
The Japanese Diet passed an act amending Japanese IP law (including patent law, trademark law, utility model law and design law) on June 8, 2011. Yoshitaka Sonoda, a patent attorney in Japan, takes a look. 1 October 2011
Patents
The governments of Spain and Italy have asked the CJEU to annul the March 2011 European Council decision that authorised the use of enhanced co-operation for creating unitary patent protection in Europe. 1 October 2011
Trademarks
The Supreme Court of Canada has said that a Canadian trademark is invalid if a confusingly
similar right has been used in a different part of the country. 1 August 2011
Jurisdiction reports
Balev Eood's trademark for an aircraft body was opposed by Julius Sämann Ltd, who argued it was confusingly similar to Julius Sämann's trademark protection for Little Trees/Wunderbaum air fresheners. 1 August 2011
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The office of the US Trade Representative named China and Canada as countries that are failing to adequately and effectively deal with IP protection in a report released in May. 1 August 2011
Jurisdiction reports
Trademark registration is based on ownership, and only the owner of the mark is entitled to register it. This has been the view of the Philippine Supreme Court in numerous cases. 1 August 2011
Jurisdiction reports
On June 10, 2011, several articles of the Rules of the Mexican Industrial Property Law were reformed. The changes became effective on June 13. 1 August 2011
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