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Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 2008 3(7):423-425; doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpn115
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JIPLP Express

JIPLP Express

A rapid-read overview of the main items in this issue

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   Current Intelligence
 
Trade marks
The Canadian prohibition against registrability of words clearly descriptive of origin. The practice of the Canadian Trade marks Office to judge registrability based upon a test of first impression of the everyday Canadian user of the wares may be in question. (p. 427)

‘Chocolate’ unregistrable for portable communications apparatus. The Registrar refused registration of the word CHOCOLATE as a trade mark in respect of ‘portable communications apparatus’ on the basis that the mark was devoid of any distinctive character and consisted exclusively of a sign which may serve in trade to designate the characteristics of the goods for which registration of the mark was sought. (p. 428)

Honda's UK trade mark rights exhausted by sales made by Honda Australia. Honda's UK trade mark rights were held to be exhausted by sales made by Honda Australia to a known exporter of motorbikes. The case turned on and refined the concept of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Patents
General

   Practice Point
 
Patent trolls (and other bad news) lurking in your mailbox: handling cease-and-desist letters in the USA (p. 442)

   Articles
 
Trade marks: not just for the rich and famous (p. 451)
Nokia v IDC: an essentially English judgment (p. 457)
US patent exhaustion: yesterday, today, and maybe tomorrow (p. 461)
The end of the patent duty of disclosure in Australia (p. 470)
Crystal clear: a landmark pharma patent victory in Japan (p. 473)

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