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Madrid: a flourishing system?
29-09-2016
Progress on implementing the Madrid System for international trademark registration around the world presents a mixed picture, as Sarah Morgan reports.
The World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Madrid System is certainly thriving:
in 2019, it recorded its 1.5 millionth international trademark registration, in the same year that the United Nations agency celebrated 30 years since the adoption of the Madrid Protocol, the cornerstone of the Madrid System.
While the system has been in existence for more than 125 years, three-quarters of its current members joined it during the past three decades. Membership in the Madrid System quadrupled from just 25 members in 1988, to 107 members now. The protocol, which came into effect in 1996, allows for applicants to apply for or register a mark through an office of origin in their own country or region (if that is a signatory) and then designate international registrations based on tha
Aye Finance brings on board RBL Bank s Ujual George as chief risk officer
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In his new role as CRO, he will be responsible for strengthening the risk management capabilities and driving operational transformation at Aye Finance.
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Aye Finance - a fintech lender to the MSME sector has brought on board Ujual George as its chief risk officer.
George, an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, has held various leadership positions in his career of over 25 years in banking and financial services. His last assignment was with
RBL Bank, where he served on its management committee and led the transformation agenda of the bank. He has also worked across organisations like HSBC, Max New York Life, and Barclays Bank.
Maradona’s goals and Argentina’s economic instability
In this June 29, 1986 file photo, Diego Maradona holds up his team s trophy after Argentina s 3-2 victory over West Germany at the World Cup final soccer match at Atzeca Stadium in Mexico City.
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His goals led to inflation policy talk but the big Argentine lesson is about how key officials are appointed
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The demise of Diego Maradona last month incidentally brought to the fore the topic of monetary policy in Argentina. The governor of Bank of England in 2005, Mervyn King, in a lecture staunchly supporting inflation targeting, had used Maradona’s (invisible) ‘Hand of God’ goal, and his unexpected tactics in his second goal in Argentina’s spectacular 1986 win against England, to elucidate concepts related to inflation expectations. Lord Mervyn King’s comments were alluded to in newspaper editorials, and in Mint too, last month.
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