Patent & IP news for October 16, 2016

Utility Patents from patentlyo.com

In the end, the Patent Office was able to ramp-up production enough to end FY2016 with the most utility patents issued in any fiscal year in history – 304,500 utility patents! About 53% of the ...

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Rome Court of First Instance rules that copyright exceptions for news reporting and criticism/review do not apply to entertainment TV programmes from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Is the practice of publishing extracts of entertainment
TV programmes risky?
In Italy, yes
(in the picture, an example from UK's Daily Mail)Do the Italian copyright exceptions for news reporting and criticism/review ...

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CBS Sunday Morning on October 16, 2016: who invented the bumper sticker? from ipbiz.blogspot.com



Within the show, one had Martha Teichner doing a piece on "bumper stickers" titled -- Bumper stickers: A vehicle for political expression --. There was a sort of inventorship matter:


But then came World War II, and ...

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Plagiarism in Russian academics? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

There is an interesting piece in gulfnews titled Russian academics fight back against fraud, plagiarism

Fake dissertations, produced by copy-pasting existing texts and merely switching a few introductory pages, are common

This is predominantly about ...

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