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ReMarks & China ReMarks – Marks & Clerk's quarterly newsletters
Our quarterly newsletters are designed to help clients and contacts keep up to date
with key IP legal developments and topical issues.
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ReMarks - Autumn 2011 NEW (file size 585KB)
including:
- Using Intellectual Property to close pension fund deficits
- Keyword advertising - is it trade mark infringement or not?
- Europe bans stem cell patents
- Shooting down patents: standard issue ammunition
- Marks & Clerk opens new office in Australia/ Marks & Clerk ePublications
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ReMarks - Summer 2011 (file size 1.20MB)
including:
- 2012 - unauthorised association with the Olympic Games
- ICANN to launch new generic top-level domains
- ASA extends remit to online advertising
- SPCs - are the goalposts shifting?
- CJEU delivers blow to EU patent system
- Marks & Clerk office moves
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China ReMarks - Spring 2011 (file size 736KB)
including:
- Not all priority claims extended by new Cross-Straits cooperation
- So who can invalidate a Chinese patent?
- Inventor reward and remuneration: know your obligations!
- "IP protection in China" is NOT an oxymoron
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ReMarks - Winter 2010 (file size 736KB)
including:
- Key challenges for the EPO
- EU Commission formally proposes single EU patent
- UKIPO tightens time frame for trade mark proceedings
- IP enforcement in the UK: cheaper and simpler new procedure
- New gTLDs to create sea-change in internet use?
- UK opposition deadlines reduced
- "Short domains" now registrable in the UK
- Marks & Clerk news
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ReMarks - Summer 2010 (file size 452KB)
including:
- Software patentability: transatlantic unity?
- Pharma industry enters critical phase as patent cliff looms large
- Brand challenges and opportunities in the digital age
- EP validations: what next after the "Big 3"?
- Israel to join International Trade Mark System
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China ReMarks - Summer 2010 (file size341KB)
Highlights of the latest news and developments in Chinese intellectual property, including:
- Amendments to guidelines for Patent Examination in China
- Chinese patent law practice - drafting for China
- IP rights in China - the giant awakens
- Dual protection by patent and utility model
- Inventor compensation in China
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ReMarks - Spring 2010 (file size 184KB)
including:
- Google wins 'AdWords' dispute
- Green tech innovation - the new 'green channel'
- Health claims
- OHIM proposals announced
- Leading patent litigator joins Marks & Clerk Solicitors
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China ReMarks - Winter 2010 (file size 650KB)
Highlights of the latest news and developments in Chinese intellectual property, including:
- Supreme Court issues guidelines for patent infringement cases
- Chinese patent law practice - amendments
- Using PCT to first file in China has unexpected benefits
- Bayer wins infringement suit in Jiangsu
- Security clearance for inventions made in China
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ReMarks - Autumn 2009 (file size 827KB)
including:
- The importance of brands in a downturn
- Crunch time for biotech?
- New EPO rule changes further restrict
applicants’ freedom of choice
- ECJ advisor backs Google AdWords in trade marks dispute
- Marks & Clerk opens Malaysia office
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China ReMarks - Autumn 2009 (file size 103KB)
Highlights of the latest news and developments in Chinese intellectual property, including:
- Third amendment to PRC patent law
- Supreme Court publishes typical IPR cases 2008
- Increase in IP litigation in China
- Chinese Review Board clears backlog
- Google succeeds in company name dispute
- Chinese patent law practice - filing strategies
- Airbus fails to prove well-known trade mark in China
- Changes in assignment requirements
- Marks & Clerk strengthens Hong Kong patent team
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ReMarks - Spring 2009 (file size 252KB)
including:
- Landmark inventor compensation claim in healthcare battle
- IP - a tool to safeguard investment in cleantech
- Company names adjudicator issues first decision
- OHIM to abolish final registration fees for CTMS
- ECJ decision - Intel v. CPM
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ReMarks - Autumn 2008 (file size 155KB)
including:
- UK-IPO introduces new Trade Mark Rules
- Trade Mark watching
- Maximising value from IP during the credit crunch
- Boost for software patents in the UK
- Major decision on "dosage regime" patents
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ReMarks
- Summer 2008 (file size 138KB)
including:
- Biotechnology Report 2008 launched
- First UK court decision on search engine keywords
- Good news for software patents
- London 2012 - strict restrictions for business
- Trade mark scams - stay vigilant
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ReMarks -
Spring 2008 (file size 167KB)
including:
- EU joins International Registered Design Treaty
- Protecting logos via registered designs
- EPO to increase fees
- UK-IPO introduces fast-track examination
- France ratifies the London Agreement
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