Patent & IP news for July 4, 2014

Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Braving the mud: expect
the unexpected at Glastonbury ...Around the weblogs 1.  Afro-IP reports on the sad and troubling case of Johan Nortje, the South African customs official who was murdered by a hit squad ...

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Have U.S. courts made patents less valuable? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Sometimes what grabs this Kat’s attention, at least for blogging purposes, is a Table that accompanies a longer article. That is the case with Terry Ludlow’s article, “Signs of the times: trends in ...

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EPO prioritises newest (and oldest) files from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Not as high profile as the
newer applications
The IPKat has always been somewhat dismayed by the continued focus on reducing the delay between filing patent applications and the EPO issuing a first opinion on ...

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Librarians Concerned Digital Content Licences Overriding Exceptions/Limitations from www.ip-watch.org

While exceptions and limitations for librarians and archives are under negotiation at the World Intellectual Property Organization this week, librarians and archivists called on WIPO delegates to address an issue of contract licences for digital ...

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The European Right To Be Forgotten Might Be A Pandora’s Box from www.ip-watch.org

Over the last few months search engines around the world have been keeping an active eye on the developments of the landmark case ruled by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) requiring Google to consider ...

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Fifty years of "James Bond" legal fighting ended in 2013 from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Following up on an IPBiz post about Thunderball, note the dispute finally settled in November 2013.

From Fordham's IPLJ



Finally, on November 15, 2013, after over 50 years of intellectual property disputes, a settlement ...

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