Dear readers,

This edition of the Sorainen Intellectual Property Legal Update starts with good news about a significant fall in the cost of owning a Community trade mark. The 40% drop in registration costs will surely help businesses to protect their trade mark rights in challenging economic times.

In this edition you will also find news about recent developments in Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian laws along with a selection of the most important recent practice in the intellectual property field, such as statutory compensation for trade mark infringement held unconstitutional in Lithuania and new regulation on license and franchise agreements in Belarus. Additionally, this edition demonstrates how competition law can intermingle with intellectual property protection, as illustrated by the look-alikes combating case and abuse of a dominant position by the copyright collecting society in Latvia. Hopefully this will help to organise your intellectual property portfolio in the most efficient way. We also describe efforts by Estonia to bring its Trade Mark Act into compliance with EU law.

Yours sincerely,

Kaupo Lepasepp
Head of the Regional Intellectual Property Team
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 

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