Parallel imports, repackaging of pharmaceuticals, and the forfeiture defence under Article 242 of the German Civil Code

Trade mark owners cannot legitimately oppose further commercializationof repackaged pharmaceuticals if they fail to object in a timelymanner to a new type of repackaging after being notified ofit by a parallel importer.     

The evolution of DNA databases--recommendations for new European STR loci

Following a recent meeting by the ENFSI and EDNAP groups on the 4-5 April, 2005, in Glasgow, UK, it was unanimously agreed that the process of standardization within Europe should take account of recent work that unequivocally demonstrated that chance of obtaining a result from a degraded sample was increased when small amplicons (mini-STRs) were analysed. Consequently, it was recommended that existing multiplexes are re-engineered to enable small amplicon detection, and that three new mini-STR loci with alleles <130 bp (D10S1248, D14S1434 and D22S1045) are adopted as universal. This will increase the number of European standard Interpol loci from 7 to 10.