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  • Quiz of the week May 14-18

    May 21, 2012

    How much attention have you been paying to IP developments in the past week? Test your knowledge with Managing IP’s news quiz

  • What's on this week

    May 21, 2012

    Managing IP lists the IP meetings, decisions and events taking place this week

  • Interview: Rosa Wilkinson, innovation director at the UK IPO

    May 15, 2012

    Rosa Wilkinson joined the IPO in September last year after working with UK Trade and Investment and Lloyds Bank, where she served as director of public policy and regulation. She tells Emma Barraclough about her IP role

  • Quiz of the week – INTA Annual Meeting 2012

    May 14, 2012

    This week’s IP quiz questions all relate to last week’s INTA Annual Meeting in Washington DC. How many can you answer?

  • Analysis: What the SAS ruling means for computer programs

    May 09, 2012

    Computer programs cannot be protected by copyright under the EU’s Software Directive, but could be eligible for protection under other European laws

  • When the content is the trademark

    May 08, 2012

    In 2000, a bookstore owner in the UK found a poster in the shop with the words “Keep Calm and Carry On.” The owner hung it in the store and, when customers inquired about it, began selling copies. Since then, the phrase and the lone graphic—the crown of King George VI­­—have become iconic. Others have even registered the phrase as a trademark.

  • The changing face of ambush marketing

    May 08, 2012

    Events organizers need to stay one step ahead of ambush marketers if they want to protect their brands and keep their sponsors happy. Emma Barraclough explains how they are meeting the challenges of the social media revolution.

  • Copyright owners consider digital exchange options

    April 30, 2012

    Copyright owners and the businesses that offer digital content services face a problem: how to identify, organise and license the rights involved. An industry initiative hopes to help

  • UK court orders Pirate Bay blocks

    April 30, 2012

    The High Court in London has ordered five ISPs to block access to file-sharing website The Pirate Bay

  • UK anti-piracy act delayed, again

    April 27, 2012

    The implementation of the Digital Economy Act in the UK has been pushed back to 2014 at the earliest because secondary legislation needs to be amended

  • Unitary patent on the agenda on World IP Day

    April 27, 2012

    The UK's IP minister reaffirmed the country's support for a unitary patent at an event to mark World IP Day yesterday

  • Microsoft, Philips, DSM launch new industry group

    April 26, 2012

    Ideas Matter, a new industry association that aims to improve awareness of IP, was launched today in Brussels by companies, inventors, OHIM and WIPO

  • What’s on this week April 23-27

    April 23, 2012

    Managing IP lists the IP meetings, conferences and decisions to watch out for this week

  • Weekly IP quiz April 9 to 13

    April 13, 2012

    This week's quiz questions cover gTLDs, UK IP policy, ACTA - and Jeremy Lin. How many can you answer?

  • Hooper calls for copyright licensing solutions

    April 12, 2012

    Richard Hooper, the author of a report into digital licensing in the UK, wants to hear how digital copyright exchanges can be developed and improved

  • Interview: Pete Wishart MP on UK IP policy

    April 11, 2012

    The UK All-Party IP Group of MPs recently launched an inquiry into the role of government in protecting and promoting IP. James Nurton spoke to its vice-chair Pete Wishart about its aims, agenda and the risk of report overload

  • IP communicators to discuss attack on enforcement

    April 11, 2012

    How can IP owners and regulators respond to the unprecedented attack on IP rights seen in the past few months?

  • Quiz of the week April 2 to 5

    April 05, 2012

    Test your knowledge of this week’s IP developments. All the answers can be found in items on managingip.com published in the past five days

  • Judge advises on “speculative invoices”

    April 03, 2012

    A ruling from the English courts last week could limit the ability of copyright owners to issue so-called speculative invoices to people they believe have breached their IP rights online

  • The best stories from April Fool’s Day

    April 02, 2012

    Apple to protect a rectangle and EU agrees patent court venue? It must be April 1

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