Patent & IP news for February 20, 2017

Monday Miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The 2017 U.S. Chamber International IP Index entitled “The Roots of Innovation” is now available. The Index provides a roadmap of the IP environment of 45 countries. The results can be also consulted via ...

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Major changes to trademark law in Turkey: read all about it from ipkitten.blogspot.com


The long-awaited New Turkish IP Code of Industrial Property, no. 6769, entered into force upon publication in the Official Gazette of January 10, 2017. The new Code repeals and replaces the Decree Laws on Patents ...

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The case against the EU "state aid" case against Apple: 13 billion euros out of thin air from www.fosspatents.com

When Apple is party to a litigation, the numbers involved tend to be huge. Sometimes the numbers are just the nature of the beast and there is underlying merit. But not always. Apple itself and ...

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Search Engines, Rightsholders Agree Plan To Stop UK Consumers From Reaching Infringing Websites from www.ip-watch.org

Search engines Google and Bing have signed a voluntary code of conduct with the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and the Motion Picture Association to prevent consumers from being directed to copyright-infringing websites, the UK Intellectual ...

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Dismantling Of LiMux On Eve Of Pirate Party Security Conference from www.ip-watch.org

MUNICH -- For the Pirate Party gathered at the Pirate Security Conference (PirateSecon) in Munich this is bad news. On the eve of the PirateSecon, held alongside the big Munich Security Conference, the city council of ...

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BIO Investor Conference: New Technologies, Old Pricing Systems, And Insurance Payers In The US from www.ip-watch.org

NEW YORK -- At a recent biotechnology investors event in the United States, the prospect of repeal or redesign of the Affordable Care Act, the president’s recent remarks on the prospect of Medicare negotiating prices ...

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Health Security An Integral Part Of International Security, Experts Argue from www.ip-watch.org

Microsoft founder and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Co-Chair Bill Gates called on governments gathered at the annual Munich Security Conference this week to not “ignore the link between health security and international security.”

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Google v. Oracle: Fair Use of a Copyrighted API from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Google v. Oracle (Fed. Cir. 2017) (pending software API copyright case) In its return-trip to the Federal Circuit, the Oracle’s JAVA-Copyright case against Google appears have some chance of once again ...

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Patently-O Reader Survey – Thank you! from patentlyo.com

A team of students from the University of Missouri School of Journalism (AdZou) is using Patently-O as their capstone project.  As part of that project, they have created the following 10-minute survey that will help ...

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