Guest Post: Reputation without use from spicyipindia.blogspot.com The recent decision of the IPAB over the FT trademark, which Shan had analyzed about over
here, is probably one of the most important judgements in the recent past. The distinction drawn by the IPAB ...
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Mini Unitary Patent Update: European Parliament , Rules of Procedure & Legal Services Opinion Request from ipkitten.blogspot.com A picture of what the AmeriKat would ideally like to be doing right now.... The sun is shining down in London, the people are smiling and all seems well in the world, except, that is ...
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Why distance learning in IP has come a long way from ipkitten.blogspot.com Handy accessory for
distance learning Reading the recently-published details of the LLM and postgraduate diploma distance learning courses in UK, EU and US copyright offered by Kings College London in conjunction with what is described ...
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F1: Community TM institutions can't cast aspersions on national marks from ipkitten.blogspot.com If you were busily digesting the Chocolate Bunny ruling earlier today, you might have missed a further trade mark ruling from the European Union's senior court:
Case C‑196/11 P,
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Veteran-owned small businesses eligible for pro bono trademark services from Erik M. Pelton & Associates from www.erikpelton.com Erik M. Pelton & Associates, PLLC (“EMP&A;”), an experienced boutique trademark law firm in Falls Church, Virginia is proud to announce a new pro bono initiative in connection with the upcoming 2012 National Veteran Small ...
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Day of Judgment for Chocolate Bunnies from ipkitten.blogspot.com If you want to know whose
bunny this is, you have to
read the small print ... It has often been said that the Day of Judgment will be accompanied with a great
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USPTO News Briefs from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- USPTO Releases Certain AIA Implementation Dates The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently updated its Leahy-Smith America Invents Act Implementation micro-site to announce several AIA implementation dates. On the micro-site, USPTO ...
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Group Looks At Effects Of America Invents Act On Plant Breeders from www.ip-watch.org CIOPORA, an international association of plant breeders, held its annual meeting recently with a focus on novelties in plant patents introduced by the America Invents Act, to become effective on 16 March 2013.
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US, China To Hold Landmark IP Adjudication Meeting from www.ip-watch.org The United States and China will hold early next week what is becoming the largest bilateral programme between their courts in the area of intellectual property adjudication. Set to gather more than a thousand participants ...
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Microsoft defeats Google subsidiary Motorola again, wins German patent injunction from www.fosspatents.com The Munich I Regional Court today ordered a German patent injunction against wholly-owned Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility because the Android operating system infringes EP1304891 on "communicating multi-part messages between cellular devices using a standardized interface ...
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World Health Assembly Draft Decision On NCDs from www.ip-watch.org Members of the World Health Organization tonight will consider a draft decision on how the organisation will address the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases, such as tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and harmful ...
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WIPO Patent Committee Moves To Strategic Consultations from www.ip-watch.org The chair of the World Intellectual Property Organization patent committee today circulated informal suggestions on ways forward for this week's wide-ranging committee agenda.
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USPTO Opens Patent & Trademark Resource Center at UNH Law from www.ipwatchdog.com The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced that the University of New Hampshire School of Law Library, which was designated as the Concord Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC.) on January 30 ...
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World Health Assembly: R&D Drafting Group Documents Show Country Differences from www.ip-watch.org A set of documents in use by today's closed-door negotiations on research and development for neglected diseases at the World Health Assembly lay out the core differences between WHO members. Negotiations are expected to ...
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Patent Lawsuits Extreme: Household Names Compete for Customers, Brand Reputation and Innovative Technologies from www.ipwatchdog.com But how exactly do patents do all of these wonderful things for companies? Unlike trademarks and copyrights, patents are incredibly difficult to acquire. But a patent, once acquired, grants the holder a fairly long monopoly ...
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BIO Lauds Senate Passage of User Fee Package from www.ipwatchdog.com The inclusion of an enhanced Accelerated Approval pathway, crafted by Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC), will help expedite the development of modern, targeted, and personalized therapies for patients suffering from serious and life-threatening diseases while preserving ...
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Google “Goog” Doodle Honors Music Innovator Robert Moog from www.ipwatchdog.com As most likely already know, Google has made it a tradition to create fun Google logo’s (or Doodles) to celebrate specific holidays, anniversaries and the lives of famous artists, pioneers and scientists. You may ...
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Grilling up some patents from intellogist.wordpress.com Summer is fast approaching, and that means BBQ time in the US. Although I’m sure every region has their own version of cooking with fire, it seems like the US has taken to this ...
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Background issues or Issues in the background? from spicyipindia.blogspot.com There are completely new issues, perhaps ones that have never risen before, which are coming out as a result of the digital era we've entered. These aren't necessarily IP issues but are at ...
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