We start the new year with a fresh new look, but as usual with a lot of news and developments in different countries around the world. KPMG firms are proud of their global networkofIP lawyers, enabling KPMG professionals to offer an international service to clients in this area.
The interplay of international agreements and rules with national legislation plays a major role, also and especially in the area of Intellectual Property. In the European Union in particular, supranational regulations must be transposed into national law. Find out how this is done in Czechia, Romania and Spain.
Other articles analyze recent court decisions on the national and EU level, for example with regard to the revocability of consent to the use of an image, the protection of partial designs as unregistered designs and the modus operandi of companies managing the IPRsof others. We also take a look beyond the EU. Vietnam is constantly trying to improve its competitiveness in the IP sector. A report on its accession to the World IP Organization Copyright Treaty as well as an assessment of its IP landscape can be found in the present edition.
News from the EU and Vietnam complete the picture.
