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Amendments to Hong Kong’s Trade Marks Ordinance paves the way for Madrid Protocol
By AWA | Posted on July 7, 2020
The Trade Marks (Amendment) Ordinance 2020 was gazetted on June 19, 2020. While the Amendment does not introduce any substantive changes to the underlying Hong Kong trademark laws, it does provide a basis in Hong Kong Law for the application of the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (Madrid...
Tags: Hong Kong, Intellectual Property, IP, Madrid Protocol, trademarks, WIPO
WIPO panel finds that Danish start-up Acubit engaged in reverse domain name hijacking
By AWA | Posted on April 29, 2020
Technology start-up Acubit claimed that Danish trademark rules and practice should assign domain names to the relevant trademark owner. A panel from the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre disagreed, as the UDRP governs in case of reverse domain name hijacking. Background Founded in 2016, Acubit A/S is a Danish start-up, which develops technology to locate people and objects around...
Tags: Bad faith, Denmark, domain hijacking, domains, mediation, trademarks, UDRP, WIPO
Global Innovation Index 2015: Switzerland, UK and Sweden at the top
By Love Koči | Posted on October 22, 2015
The recently issued Global Innovation Index (GII), which is co-published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Cornell University and INSEAD Business School, ranks the innovation performance of 141 countries and economies around the world based on 79 indicators. Published annually since 2007, the GII is used as a tool for policymakers, business leaders and...
Tags: GII, Global Innovation Index, WIPO
Controversy behind Ms. Tu Youyou, the first Chinese female Noble Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine
By Linlin Zheng | Posted on October 9, 2015
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced on 5 October. It was rewarded with one half to Tu Youyou “for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria” and the other half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura. “Chinese people wish to win Nobel Prize for long time,” said Professor...
Tags: artemisinin, Satoshi Omura, The 2015 Nobel Prize, Tu Youyou, William C. Campbell, WIPO
Time for abolishment of basic registrations for international registrations of trademarks?
By Angela Boman | Posted on June 11, 2015
By an application of international registration according to the Madrid system a trademark can be registered in a number of countries and regions in a more time and cost efficient way compared to filing of national applications only. In contrast to international registrations for designs or patents, the Madrid System requires a domestic application or...
Tags: international trademark, Madrid Protocol, trademarks, WIPO
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