The 50 most popular stories of 2008
22 December 2008
Managing Intellectual Property
In its annual review of the year’s news, Managing IP reveals the 50 most read stories on managingip.com from 2008 and provides a recap of the year’s awards and survey winners
The USPTO was defeated in court over its patent policies; the highest courts in the UK, US and Canada gave key decisions on patentability; eBay was at the heart of disputes in the US and France over its liability for sales of counterfeit goods; EU member states agreed to cut CTM fees but disagreed over a Community patent; ICANN gave the go-ahead to new generic top-level domains; Coca-Cola won a trade mark for its bottle shape in Japan; and WIPO member states elected a new director general.
Those are just a few of the highlights in a busy year in IP. For our annual review of the events that made the news, we present the 50 stories that you, the readers, looked at the most in the past year. The list is based on the number of views for each story, and the top 50 is presented in reverse order.
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