The latest number of e-News, the newsletter of AIPPI, includes an article written by Elena Molina regarding the debates at WIPO on the future of the international trademarks, in particular regarding the proposed freezing of the so-called “five years dependency clause” of international trademarks. Elena attended the 13th Working Group on the Legal Development of the Madrid System as representative of AIPPI in her capacity of Secretary of the Standing Committee on Trademarks.