Patent & IP news for December 22, 2013

Italy to introduce new (neighbouring) right over news content? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

These look like truly exciting or seriously worrisome times for copyright in Italy. On one thing there is however agreement: these are times of change. 
Following adoption of AGCOM (Italian Communication Authority)'s Regulation on ...

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Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The World Customs Organization (WCO) is delighted to announce that its global network of track and trace and authentication solutions is now up and running with eight new members. As the WCO explains:

IPM [which ...

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Barcelona court allows filing of "protective letter" by alleged patent infringer from patlit.blogspot.com

The following information comes via this blogger's friend and former Class 46 trade mark blogging colleague Ignacio Marqués Jarque (Abogado, IP/IT Baker & McKenzie Barcelona, S.L.P.). Ignacio writes:

The Commercial Court no ...

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Conclusions From Top Trademark Offices Meeting from www.ip-watch.org

Five top trademark offices, which call themselves the TM5, met earlier this month in Seoul, South Korea, and agreed on seminars, reports and other activities intended to improve their coordination and help fight bad practices ...

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CBS Sunday Morning on December 22, 2013 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Charles Osgood introduced the stories for December 22, 2013. Three days to Christmas. Lee Cowan at the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. 360 voices. Martha Teichner on fake wine vintages. Vintage crime. Counterfeiting.
Michelle Miller on Jonah ...

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WIPO To Hold Conference On Open Innovation from www.ip-watch.org

The World Intellectual Property Organization will hold a conference in January on open innovation and the future of knowledge, featuring some surprising speakers.Related Articles:

• South Africa Conference On IP And Innovation
• Cape Town Conference ...

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Broadcasting Treaty Moving At WIPO; Library Copyright Exceptions Slower from www.ip-watch.org

After a week of work on the three current subjects of the World Intellectual Property Organization copyright committee, member states mostly made progress on a potential treaty to protect broadcasting organisations, while exceptions and limitations ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

January 8-12, 2014 - National CLE Conference (Law Education Institute, Inc.) - Vail, CO January 21, 2014 - "Top Patent Law Stories of 2013" (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) - 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT) January ...

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Court Report from www.patentdocs.org

By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Alcon Research Ltd. v. Wockhardt Ltd. et al. 1:13-cv-02040; filed December 19, 2013 in the ...

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