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It's one of the world's last great wildernesses but all that protects Antarctica is a single treaty, negotiated more than six decades ago. Is it up to the task?

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Inventa International Rwanda is a landlocked country, located south of the Equator in east-central Africa, bordering Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Uganda. Its capital, located in the centre of the country, is Kigali and the local currency is the Rwandan Franc, issued by the National Bank of Rwanda. The last two decades have been ones of reconstruction and reconciliation, following the troubled 90s that left the country scarred by civil war and the 1994 genocide, in whi...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The new ex parte expungement and reexamination proceedings, introduced by the Trademark Modernization Act, are intended to be efficient ways of removing improper trademark registrations from the register. But will expungement or reexamination always be the best strategy for challenging a trademark registration? In our last post on ex parte expungement and reexamination proceedings here, we explained the timing and basics of these new ...

by Tyler Durden By Alex Gray of 19fortygive.com In late 2020, a Chinese submersible, the  Fendouzhe, descended over 30,000 feet to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, home to the deepest point in the earth’s oceans, known as Challenger Deep. Loaded with so much surveying equipment that the crew added additional buoyancy materials to keep it balanced, the  Fendouzhe set a national record for the depth of its dive and broadcast a live feed of its exploits back to China. While the expedition...

It is also the foundation of a rules-based international order for a continent without a permanent population. The treaty is remarkably short and contains only 14 articles. Principal provisions include promoting the freedom of scientific research, the use of the continent only for peaceful purposes, and the prohibition of military activities, nuclear tests and the disposal of radioactive waste. However, since the treaty was negotiated in a very different era and there have been a number of env...

Whether you are filing a new trademark application or looking to maintain a registration, understanding trademark specimen best practices is key. A common pitfall when filing your...

Chile recently agreed to join the Madrid Protocol making International Registrations possible. At the same time, the country passed a law modernizing its Industrial Property Law. In both cases, INTA was there to provide input along the way.

Chile recently took two major actions related to harmonization that are of relevance to brand owners and professionals globally.