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20 May 2013 | Jeffrey I. D. Lewis
The New York Times on Tuesday May 14 contained an op-ed by Angelina Jolie, the actress and director. In it she discloses that she has a family history of breast cancer and that she decided to have a double mastectomy before cancer developed. I have written about this as a...
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16 May 2013 | James Nurton
The unitary patent and UPC will bring UK business benefits worth £40 million, while earning lawyers an estimated £200 million – according to a UK...
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15 May 2013 | Jeffrey I. D. Lewis
I have just left Japan, after spending a week with AIPLA’s IP in Japan Committee. That committee was one of the originators – if not...
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14 May 2013 | James Nurton
This blog post is something of a mea culpa. It stems from comments made by Brad Smith of Microsoft at last month’s Fordham IP Conference...
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14 May 2013 | James Nurton
With the Madrid Protocol now covering more than two-thirds of the world’s population, and further expansion expected, how can it be improved to benefit trade...
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10 May 2013 | Emma Barraclough
Do patent pools ultimately benefit consumers or the companies that agree to package their IP rights as part of a technical standard? That’s a question...
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10 May 2013 | James Nurton
The most radical proposal in the UK government’s IP bill, published this week, is the introduction of criminal penalties for infringing registered designs. Will that...
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09 May 2013 | James Nurton
Following our recent post on patent term, WIPO’s chief economist has done some digging – with interesting results
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07 May 2013 | Simon Crompton
It was the end of a long day and the conference programme was already running 20 minutes late, but for some reason no one wanted...
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30 April 2013 | Jeffrey I. D. Lewis
A few weeks ago the New York Times Science section included a front-page article entitled "Federal Initiative Aims to Raise Number of Minority Scientists."
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30 April 2013 | James Nurton
Most trade mark practitioners heading to Dallas for the INTA Annual Meeting next week will be aiming to learn a little bit, pick up some...
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26 April 2013 | Emma Barraclough
Despite winning its UK patent dispute with Nestec, Dualit was criticised for the length and scope of its submissions. Should it care? And what lessons...
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24 April 2013 | James Nurton
With the patent system under scrutiny, once again there are calls to change the term of protection. But critics ignore the way the market works.
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23 April 2013 | James Nurton
In all the discussions, seminars, meetings and gossip about the EU unitary patent, one question keeps coming up: how much will it cost? And we...
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23 April 2013 | Peter Leung
The Aereo decision may be a technically correct application of US copyright law, but the line drawn seems to be a distinction without a difference...