Mr. Joan Salvà, a managing director with the Spanish IP firm PONTI& PARTNERS visited us this week. He was kind enough to update us on some recent changes involving non-use cancellations and nullity actions in Spain, as well as giving us a brief presentation on recent cases of note within the EU. We also discussed Japan’s recent adoption of a letter-of-consent system, a well as how our two patent offices tend to differ with respect to the registrability of single and two-letter trademarks.