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Guido Baumgartner Chair	Chairman's Report
	Guido Baumgartner of Coty Prestige Lancaster Group was elected MARQUES Chair for a period of two years at the Winter Meeting held in Venice. Guido was previously one of two Vice Chairs. He takes over from Jane Collins of Syngenta, who stepped down after her two-year term. He said his objectives, which are shared by the MARQUES Council, are threefold. First, he will focus on the financial well being of the Association: “Given the economic situation, we need to keep this aspect constantly in mind and work on it.” He added that the Treasurer and Vice-Chair will take the main responsibility for this. [View full report]

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Brighton 2009
Sustainable Brands
A luxury or a necessity?
The 23rd MARQUES Annual Conference will be held in Brighton, UK from the 15th to 18th September 2009.
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New gTLDs: ICANN Consults, the Cyberspace Team have published a report on ICANNS plans to launch hundreds of new gTLDs and is asking MARQUES Members to provide comments to ICANN.

GOOGLE has announced 2 new polices regarding the use of trademarks on AdWords. Click here to read the short report published by the Cyberspace Team.

The Founders of Pirate Bay have been convicted of copyright infringement, click here for more information or visit the Cyberspace Team pages.

The MARQUES Case Notes contains over 1400 cases and is fully searchable.

This months cases include Interflora v Marks & Spence after Marks & Spencer purchased the term 'Interflora' on Googles Adwords as well as L'Oréal S.A v eBay International and others after a number of products including testers, counterfeits and products only for sale in the US and Canada had been listed for sale with copyright protected images and text. Other cases include Palmolive Classico, Armafoam, Nomafoam, Nutripharm and Pharmacheck.

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