Patent & IP news for November 11, 2009

Wednesday Wround-up from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) welcomes some new officers. Eduardo Pisani was appointed Director General yesterday, a week after Haruo Naito was confirmed as the organisation's new President. The Kats ...

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Supreme Court Ponders Hypotheticals In Bilski from www.patentbaristas.com

The Supreme Court finally heard oral hearings in the Bilski v. Doll case. Here, the Court was asked to consider whether the Federal Circuit erred by holding that a “process” must be tied to a ...

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Bangkok to Barcelona: Uncertainties loom large over the issues of sharing green technology for environmental protection from www.iposgoode.ca

Nirav Bhatt is an LLM Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. From 2-6 November 2009, the meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group for the ongoing negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ...

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Universities Adopt Principles For Medicines Access, Technology Transfer from www.ip-watch.org

Several leading universities in the United States as well as the National Institutes of Health have adopted a set of principles regarding intellectual property and research intended to aid dissemination of medical technology. The Statement ...

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Bad faith, trade marks and the .eu TLD from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat has long been puzzled that the complex web of rules relating to the registration of .eu domain names and their somewhat begrudging nod towards the recognition of the interests of trade mark owners ...

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