Parallel imports are permitted--unless they are not: the case of SAMSONITE in Singapore from ipkitten.blogspot.com Kat friends Lau Kok Keng and Nicholas Lauw, partners, and Jiamin Leow, associate, of Rajah & Tann, share their thoughts on a recent trademark decision in Singapore regarding the thorny matter of when parallel importation may ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute v. Eli Lilly & Co. (Fed. Cir. 2017); Eli Lilly & Co. v. Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (Fed. Cir. 2017) from www.patentdocs.org By Kevin E. Noonan -- The Federal Circuit handed down two related opinions last week, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute v. Eli Lilly & Co. and Eli Lilly & Co. v. Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, one of ...
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Legal Swords Sharpened In Kenya-Manchester Cancer Drug Rights Dispute from www.ip-watch.org NAIROBI, Kenya -- A dispute between Kenyan researchers and the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, over ownership of a cancer discovered after successful clinical trials in Kenya finally seems headed to courts.
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The Imminent Outpouring from the Eastern District of Texas from patentlyo.com The following guest post by Professor Paul Janicke ties-in with his new article published at: Paul M. Janicke, The Imminent Outpouring from the Eastern District of Texas, 2017 Patently-O Patent Law Journal 1. – DC by ...
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EPO Sees Highest Patent Filings Ever; Chinese Applications Still Rising from www.ip-watch.org The European Patent Office published its 2016 annual report today, showing an “unprecedented level of patent filings,” and underlining the growing number of patent applications from China. The top technical fields for applications included medical ...
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WHO Director General Candidates Showcase Campaigns To The World from www.ip-watch.org It has been a gruelling campaign for the three final candidates for the post of director general of the World Health Organization and their latest public foray was dubbed a “moderated discussion.”
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Willfulness Summary Judgment Requires Evidence of Subjective Beliefs from docketreport.blogspot.com The court denied defendant's motion for summary judgment that it did not willfully infringe plaintiff's prostate treatment patent because defendant failed to present evidence of its subjective beliefs. "The Court recognizes that the ...
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Intellectual Ventures: XML Patent Invalid from patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch Intellectual Ventures v. Capital One (Fed. Cir. 2017) In parallel decisions, the Federal Circuit has affirmed two lower court judgments that Intellectual Ventures patents are ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 ...
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Regulation by Machine: Prof. Benjamin Alarie on the Power of Machine Learning from www.iposgoode.ca Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. once described the law as nothing more than “prophecies of what the courts will do in fact.” If the practice of law is largely an exercise in fortune-telling, Benjamin Alarie believes ...
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Intellectual Property Strategy For Artificial Intelligence from www.iposgoode.ca WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? Artificial intelligence (“AI”) is a technical field of computer science that includes machine learning, natural language processing, speech processing, expert systems, robotics and machine vision. The term “artificial intelligence” is sometimes ...
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Main Recommendations Of UN High-Level Panel On Access To Medicines Presented At WTO from www.ip-watch.org An event held at the World Trade Organization last week walked through key recommendations of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines, including strategies for moving some of them forward.
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Revelations Illustrate Aggressive CIA Hacking, Sloppy Security Of Smart Services from www.ip-watch.org Thought about buying a smart phone, smart TV, smart car? – think twice. Wikileaks today (7 March) released over 8,000 documents illustrating hacking activities of the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA. In what has been described ...
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