From Bench to Chair: Robin's new career from ipkitten.blogspot.com Sir Robin Jacob, pictured with a book
-- but he isn't actually reading it ... This Friday, 18 March, is Sir Robin Jacob's final day as a
Lord Justice of Appeal, before he leaves the ...
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Top 5: Patent Myths from info.articleonepartners.com By Catherine Zielinski
This week we delve into common misconceptions about the patent world. To outsiders and insiders alike, the regulations and fine lines can often blur together. Our Top 5 Patent Myths will clarify ...
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'Soundbox' carries interview with Javed Akhtar on the story behind the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010 from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Soundbox, a trade magazine focussing on the Indian music industry, has carried a brilliant, detailed interview of noted lyricist Mr. Javed Akhtar by Aparna Joshi. Mr. Akhtar is widely regarded as the one man army ...
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"Does It Add Up?" Convergence facts, figures and trends from ipkitten.blogspot.com Convergence -- they're all in it together! In previous years, IPKat team member Jeremy has been pleased to report the outcome of the Convergence Survey conducted by
Olswang LLP, the London-based law firm to which ...
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Netflix and Distribution: The Unsung Story of Copyright Content from ipkitten.blogspot.com Without any intention to bruise any professional sensitivities, my 20 years or so in the pedagogy of copyright has underscored that, in the classroom, the primary poles of interest are the production of copyright content ...
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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com There are so many Forthcoming Events on the IPKat's list that even he can't keep up with them. Do check them out! In all due modesty, the IPKat was thrilled to be listed ...
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Breaking News: Supreme Court Stays Copyright Board Order from spicyipindia.blogspot.com SpicyIP just learnt that the Supreme Court stayed the controversial copyright board
compulsory licensing order! A bench comprising of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice Cyriac Joseph stayed the order this afternoon. PPL had appealed against ...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – Class of 2011 trademarks from ipelton.wordpress.com Earlier this week, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted its 2011 class. Video of the event will be presented on Sunday at 9 p.m. E.D.T. on the Fuse cable channel ...
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Parallel Imports, Exports and Access to Education: A Numbers Game from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Show me the numbers, screamed an angry colleague of mine, sympathetic to the claims of book publishers. This altercation took place in the wake of a
Mint opinion piece that I had authored arguing that ...
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Musicians and Radio Broadcasters Speak Up on Bill C-32 from www.iposgoode.ca Ivy Tsui is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Members of the music and radio broadcasting industries provided comments related to Bill C-32 at the hearings of the Legislative Committee on March 1 ...
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Frivolous Patent Lawsuit Illustrates High Cost Of Litigation from gametimeip.com Most reports complaining of frivolous patent lawsuits claim that patent owners carelessly assert patents without a viable infringement theory, or, more commonly, baselessly claim that asserted patents are invalid (despite lack of support for such ...
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Guess Which “Winner” is an Inventor? from tacticalip.com By: Mark R. Malek You guessed it – Charlie Sheen. The patent indicates the inventor as Carlos Irwin Estevez, which is good ol’ Charlie’s real name. You can read about the very complicated and sophisticated ...
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The Yoke® shopper invention from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk I’ve just been given an item that’s meant to help carry shopping: the Yoke® shopper. It’s the size of a small apple and weights 60 grams. The only wording on it is ...
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Google Ventures backs CoolPlanetBiofuels from ipbiz.blogspot.com TODD WOODY posted
Google Ventures Leads Financing of Biofuels Start-Up about Google Ventures backing CoolPlanetBiofuels and wrote:
“We take biomass such as corncobs, yard clippings wood chips and fractionate that biomass into discrete gas streams ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Debate about "The Essay Exchange" at the University of Virginia from ipbiz.blogspot.com The tagline at
TheEssayExchange is
Where College Students Get Paid for Sharing Their Successful Admissions Essays and Applicants Learn From Reading Successful Admissions Essays. Apparently, one can purchase essays used for the following schools:
Brown ...
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“Green” Patent Amendments Now In Force from www.iposgoode.ca Amendments to the Patent Rules relating to advanced examination of ‘green technologies’ (s.28(1)(b)) are now in force. The amendments also provide for all applications to leave advanced examination if time limits are ...
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Supreme Court of Canada Rules on Cellphone Services Contracts from www.iposgoode.ca The Supreme Court of Canada handed down a decision today in the case of Michelle Seidel v. TELUS Communications Inc. 2011 SCC 15. At issue is whether a plaintiff consumer can bring various causes of ...
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New Head of European Pharmaceutical Industry Group from www.ip-watch.org A top European pharmaceutical industry association has named a new director general, coming from Sweden.
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Bilski Applied to Invalidate Computer System Claims from www.patentlyo.com CLS Bank Int'l v. Alice Corp. (D.D.C. 2011) In an interesting opinion, DC District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer has ruled Alice Corp's four asserted patents invalid under 35 U.S.C ...
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PTO Makes Accommodations Relating to Japan Catastrophe from ipwatchdog.com The USPTO is offering assistance in the form of flexibility on deadlines to the full extent allowable under our laws to Japanese applicants. However, because this catastrophic event occurred outside the United States and did ...
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Canada, The Land of Hockey, Roll Up The Rim To Win and Pirates from www.iposgoode.ca Sean Jackson is a first year JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and currently enrolled in the course Law & Social Change: Law & Music, in Winter 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are ...
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More IPR Infringing Goods Seizures in FY 2010 but Lower Value from www.infringementupdates.com The following is excerpted from the March 18, 2011 issue of World Trade Interactive from Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A.: U.S. Customs and Border Protection has released statistics showing that the number of intellectual ...
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Intellectual Ventures Stands Alone from gametimeip.com When it comes to patent reform, inventors and other “non-practicing” patent owners might prefer to band together as brothers, united against the corporate interests backing S.23′s revolutionary upheaval to our centuries old traditions ...
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Sheen Mania-Trademarks Play Big Role from tacticalip.com By Daniel Davidson Its no secret that America is a capitalist country from the way its constituents, well, capitalize on the downfalls, or as I see it, the uprising, of the rich and famous. As ...
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“Fair” Dealings Potentially “Unfair” for Documentary Filmmakers from www.iposgoode.ca Danny Titolo is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and currently enrolled in the course Law & Social Change: Law & Music, in Winter 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to ...
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