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Trademark management
The lowdown on trademarks in an insolvency

Trademarks are important to the value of an insolvent business. The business may prove more valuable if split and, if so, its trademarks will be divested separately. This may give rise to practical and legal problems View PDF

Counterfeiting perspectives
INTERPOL’s role in the global fight against counterfeiting

Anti-counterfeiting and piracy operations carried out by INTERPOL in various parts of the world have been extremely successful. The INTERPOL IP Rights Programme became truly global when it was deployed in Africa in 2008 View PDF

The view online
The pitfalls of the revised '.cn' DRP

Nearly three years after the rules governing '.cn' domain name disputes were amended, there appears to have been no significant drop in the number of decisions favourable to complainants. Enforcement of these decisions is another matter entirely– View PDF