Patent & IP news for November 13, 2017

Erasing Kevin Spacey: performers' rights to the rescue? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

All The Money in the World
by Ridley ScottLast week, film director Ridley Scott announced that the performance of actor Kevin Spacey will be removed from his forthcoming film 'All the Money in the ...

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Never Too Late: if you missed the IPKat last week! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Been away and want to catch up with last week's IP news? No problem! As always, the IPKat is here to bring you a quick summary -- the 169th edition of Never Too Late.
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Looking for answers on ANSERA from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Lemme ask some questions...ANSERA (ANother Search ERA) is a semi-automatic search engine for patent information used internally by the European Patent Office in its search efforts. The purpose of (semi)automatic search is to ...

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Brief: Next Global Congress On IP And The Public Interest from www.ip-watch.org

American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property has announced the hosting of Fifth Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, from 27-29 September 2018. And it ...

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New Draft Action Plans On Copyright Limitations And Exceptions At WIPO from www.ip-watch.org

The World Intellectual Property Organization has grasped the nettle after years of discussion on the issue of limitations and exceptions to copyright, and provided draft action plans, one each for libraries, archives, museums, educational research ...

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As Board Meets This Week, Sands Seeks Reinstatement Of Candidacy For Global Fund Director🔒 from www.ip-watch.org

Days after withdrawing from the consideration to be the next director of the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the UK's Peter Sands has asked to be reinstated. The actions come as the ...

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Statement that Patents Are “Potentially Essential to a Standard” Does Not Create Substantial Controversy from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss nine patents-in-suit added in plaintiff's first amended complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. "[Defendant] has never accused [plaintiff] of infringing the Additional Patents-in-Suit. [Defendant] asserts ...

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