From 1 October UK will have exceptions for private copying, broader quotation and parody from ipkitten.blogspot.com Following some fear [here and here] that UK Government could have decided not to introduce exceptions for private copying, broader quotation and parody into UK copyright after all, last month this blog reported that the ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
A scoop ... of yoghurt! from ipkitten.blogspot.com Miffy just can't get enough
Greek yoghurt ..."Greek dairy company Fage wins yogurt case in Britain" is the headline of a piece of breaking news carried in Ekathimerini today. The yoghurt case in question ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Supreme Court Patent Cases Per Decade from patentlyo.com The Chart below is an update of one I published earlier this year. The new chart adds in a couple of extra cases that I had previously not included and also takes account of the ...
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Washington Times on paralegal issue at USPTO from ipbiz.blogspot.com In a post
Patent workers paid to exercise, shop and do chores, investigation reveals , the Washington Times states
The probe by the Commerce Department’s inspector general found that paralegals at the U.S. Patent ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Poland Eyes IPR Reform To Combat Plagiarism In Scientific Theses from www.ip-watch.org The Polish Parliament is currently finalising work on a bill designed to make using anti-plagiarism software compulsory for Polish higher education institutions (HEIs). With the new law, universities are to become obliged to check all ...
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Apple suffers setback over Siri in patent case in China from ipbiz.blogspot.com Fortune on July 9, 2014 had a post
Apple loses Round 1 of Siri patent case in China which noted that Apple had gone to court against Shanghai-based Zhizhen Internet Technology and China’s State ...
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Transplanting the Canadian UGC Exception to Hong Kong: Part 3 from www.iposgoode.ca In Parts I and II of this series of blog posts, I discussed the ongoing digital copyright reform in Hong Kong. Specifically, I called for the transplant of the Canadian UGC exception to the jurisdiction ...
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Passage of Time Does Not Render Substantial Controversy Stale from docketreport.blogspot.com The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's declaratory relief claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. "Plaintiff has not alleged that defendant communicated with plaintiff at all before initiating this lawsuit. Nevertheless ...
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Six Years On, IP Impact on Green Tech Transfer Remains a Mystery from www.greenpatentblog.com It’s been quite a while since I’ve addressed green patents in the context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and other international efforts to develop climate change policy. A guest ...
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The Tralin/Tranlin Paper Story from Shandong, China: An Example of Chinese Intellectual Property Creating Jobs--in the US! from sharpip.blogspot.com In
a previous post, I reported that a huge loan had been given to a Chinese paper company backed by its Chinese IP as collateral. The 8 billion RMB obtained by China's Tralin Paper ...
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The Italian Data Protection Authority on Google’s Privacy Policies from www.iposgoode.ca The re-posting of this analysis is part of a cross-posting collaboration with MediaLaws: Law and Policy of the Media in a Comparative Perspective. The Italian Data Protection Authority on Google’s privacy policies After an ...
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US Decision Baaa-d for Inventions Replicating Nature from www.iposgoode.ca In Re Roslin Institute, the U.S. Court of Appeals delivered a potential setback to the biotechnology industry when it confirmed that inventions which are identical to those found in nature cannot be patented. Specifically ...
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Federal Circuit Allows PTO to Overrule Court Decision Again from inventivestep.net The Federal Circuit has again permitted the PTO to overrule a decision by a district court, affirmed on appeal by the Federal Circuit. As in Fresenius USA, Inc. v. Baxter Int’l, Inc., Judge O ...
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Bose Files New 337 Complaint Regarding Certain Noise Cancelling Headphones from www.itcblog.com On July 25, 2014, Bose Corp. of Framingham, Massachusetts (“Bose”) filed a complaint requesting that the ITC commence an investigation pursuant to Section 337. The complaint alleges that Beats Electronics, LLC of Culver City, California ...
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In re Patel (Fed Cir 2014) from www.patentdocs.org By Kevin E. Noonan -- The Supreme Court has made a sport of reversing the Federal Circuit over the past decade or so, and other than reserved (and sometimes not so reserved) statements by members of ...
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