Patent & IP news for November 26, 2009

Corporación Habanos S.A. sees its UDRP claim for cohiba.com go up in smoke from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Corporación Habanos S.A. failed to obtain the domain name cohiba.com in a recent URDP proceeding against Tobias Pischetsrieder. It is undisputed that the complainant owns more than 800 registrations worldwide for trade marks ...

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IP and the knowledge economy: an agenda from ipkitten.blogspot.com

In 36 minutes the IPKat will be attending a select gathering to mark the launch, by David Lammy (the UK's Minister of State for Higher Education and Intellectual Property), of a new programme which ...

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Virgin Media boxes safe (for now) from ipkitten.blogspot.com


It seems a very long time since the IPKat noted here of the impending battle between the (then Murdoch-owned) Gemstar and Virgin Media. The battle itself took place earlier this year over an astonishing 13 ...

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Masnick, again from ipbiz.blogspot.com

IPBiz just noticed an interesting comment by Mike Masnick, the guy who gets more mileage out of nothing than Jerry Seinfeld.

In context, one commenter to TechDirt wrote:

Jaffe, Lemley and Lerner are shills for ...

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Madras HC Records Issues in Bajaj-TVS Patent Dispute from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

It was reported in the Business Standard yesterday that the Madras High Court has recorded 17 issues, 8 by Bajaj and 9 by TVS, to be argued before it in the twin spark plug ignition ...

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Fear and Loathing in Seoul, Korea: ACTA’s Sixth Meeting from www.iposgoode.ca

Nathan Fan is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The world’s leading countries gathered again this year in Seoul, Korea for the sixth negotiation meeting for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). For ...

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Simply counting numbers of patents is missing the big picture from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The IAM Blog posted on a recent study by Gray/Wegner of Foley & Lardner, which study observed, among other things:

#1. Within the coming decade it may be estimated that just 150 companies will account ...

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Union Minister moots preventive detention as the answer to video piracy: Meet of Ministers at New Delhi on the 5th of December, 2009 from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

Over the last few weeks, news has been trickling in that the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Ambika Soni, has proposed a meeting in New Delhi, on December 5th to discuss the possibility of ...

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IP and the knowledge economy again from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Having attended yesterday's little meeting on the new UK initiative to find out about how IP works before trying to legislate policy for it (see earlier post here), the IPKat can now tell his ...

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Apple sues Media Solutions over power adaptor from ipbiz.blogspot.com

InformationWeek noted that Apple filed suit against Media Solutions Holdings, a company based in Anaheim, on 23 Nov. 09 concerning sales by Media of power adaptors for Apple computers.

InformationWeek noted: "Of the 15 or ...

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