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May 16, 2012
Nippon Steel has sued Korean steelmaker POSCO in the Tokyo District Court, requesting ¥100 billion ($1.25 billion) in damages. It filed the suit on April 19
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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
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May 15, 2012
Practitioners have welcomed changes to Japan’s patent laws as a positive step in streamlining procedures and increasing protection for patent holders
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May 14, 2012
The Federal Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s denial of a preliminary injunction against Samsung for products relating to three Apple patents, but said the court erred in its obviousness analysis regarding Apple’s design patent on the iPad
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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?
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May 14, 2012
Managing IP lists the IP conferences, decisions and meetings taking place this week
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May 11, 2012
Is Singapore the most tax-friendly location for holding IP rights? According to speakers at a seminar in Hong Kong today, it might be
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May 09, 2012
The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office is considering adding criminal liability, along with other changes, to the Trade Secret Act
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May 09, 2012
Semiconductor companies have been the victim in several cases of trade secret theft in recent years. The introduction of criminal liability and wire tapping could help, though damages will remain low
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May 07, 2012
A US jury has found that Google infringed “the overall structure, sequence and organization” of 37 of Oracle’s copyrighted Application Programming Interface (API) packages
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May 07, 2012
German pharmaceutical company Bayer has appealed a decision by India’s Controller of Patents to grant a compulsory license over its cancer treatment drug sorafenib
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May 03, 2012
President Myung-bak Lee has appointed a new Commissioner, Ho-won Kim, to head the Korea Intellectual Property Office. Kim’s term began on May 1
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May 03, 2012
It all started with curiosity, said Gary Starkweather, the inventor of the laser printer
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May 03, 2012
The planned EU Unified Patent Court will hinder, rather than help, patent enforcement in the EU according to a UK parliamentary committee
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May 02, 2012
A court in Mannheim has granted Motorola an injunction against Microsoft’s Windows 7 and Xbox 360
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May 01, 2012
The US government has published its annual list naming and shaming countries that it claims have failed to protect the IP rights of its citizens and companies
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May 01, 2012
The Facebook and Yahoo! feud shows no signs of waning, with Yahoo! accusing Facebook of buying patents to respond to the search engine and email company’s lawsuit
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April 30, 2012
Toshiaki Iimura, one of the most experienced IP judges in Japan, has been appointed chief judge of the IP High Court in Tokyo
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April 30, 2012
Managing IP lists the IP decisions, conferences and events to watch out for this week
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April 27, 2012
Prototype shoes, banned songs and poor grammar: have you been following the news in IP this week?
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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
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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
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April 26, 2012
While a recent ITC ruling is a setback for Apple in its fight against Motorola, lawyers told Managing IP matters are far from over
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April 26, 2012
The Asia-Pacific region is the first to celebrate World IP Day. Peter Leung in Hong Kong rounds up some of the activities
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April 24, 2012
A court in Zhejiang province has upheld a decision against a Chinese company infringing Dyson’s design patent for a bladeless fan, in a special open session ahead of this week’s World IP day
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April 23, 2012
While the 2012 French presidential election is dominated by concerns about the economy, the candidates have also campaigned on ACTA, copyright rules and ways to get the country innovating
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April 23, 2012
Foreign patent owners have nothing to fear from the Indian patent system, a local lawyer told IP owners last week
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April 23, 2012
This week’s quiz questions are all based on Managing IP’s International Patent Forum, held in London last week
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April 23, 2012
Managing IP lists the IP meetings, conferences and decisions to watch out for this week
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April 20, 2012
The creation of a unitary patent and centralised, specialised IP court is “an economic imperative” and it is time to complete the European patent system, EPO President Benoît Battistelli said this week
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April 20, 2012
What would happen if we blew up the 200-year old approach to drafting patents, and made use of 21st century communications techniques and IT?
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April 20, 2012
In-house counsel, a former judge and the head of the EPO clashed over the proposals for an EU unitary patent on Wednesday
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April 20, 2012
If you don’t understand your client’s priorities or what IP they have then you can’t manage their IP portfolio, Unilever’s global head of patents told an audience of in-house patent attorneys on Wednesday
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April 20, 2012
Oswald Schroeder owes his job to a mouse
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April 19, 2012
A proposed change to the law in Taiwan calls for up to five years imprisonment or fines of up to NT$10 million ($338,724) – more where there is intent to use the trade secrets abroad
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April 18, 2012
The US Supreme Court's decision in Hyatt v Kappos sends a clear message to the patent system that it is not special, one lawyer told Managing IP
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April 18, 2012
The USPTO has lost its US Supreme Court case over whether new evidence can be submitted in a civil appeal of a USPTO decision
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April 18, 2012
The US Supreme Court has once again reversed the Federal Circuit in a case some hope may result in the Food and Drug Administration clarifying its guidelines on use codes filed with new drug applications
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April 13, 2012
This week's quiz questions cover gTLDs, UK IP policy, ACTA - and Jeremy Lin. How many can you answer?
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April 13, 2012
Alan Lourie shares with Eileen McDermott why lawyers should never single-space long footnotes, how Section 101 law has become so confused, and his practical view of the Supreme Court’s reversal rate
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April 13, 2012
A US court’s summary judgment for DuPont against Kolon could inspire more use of trade secrets at a time when US patent law is in transition
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April 12, 2012
Judge Denny Chin wanted attendees of the Fordham IP China Conference to know two things: First, he is not an IP expert. Second, he is not a China expert
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April 12, 2012
Things are moving again at WIPO. That was the clear message from IP negotiators speaking at the Fordham IP conference in New York
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April 11, 2012
The Supreme Court of Canada recently denied leave to appeal in Corlac v Weatherford. Managing IP interviewed three of the key attorneys in the case separately about what this means for defendants seeking to attack patent validity
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April 11, 2012
A first-of-its-kind US government study released Wednesday concludes that intellectual property results in more than one-third of GDP and one-fourth of US jobs
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April 11, 2012
How can IP owners and regulators respond to the unprecedented attack on IP rights seen in the past few months?
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April 09, 2012
AOL’s $1.06 billion patent deal with Microsoft comes as no surprise following other recent blockbuster deals - but what will Microsoft do with the patents, and who will be next?
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April 05, 2012
In-house counsel from Audi, GE Healthcare, GSK, Nokia, Philips, Skype, UBS and Unilever are speaking at Managing IP’s second International Patent Forum, taking place in London on April 18 and 19
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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
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April 04, 2012
Inventors have become mere cogs in a patent system that risks destroying the spirit of innovation, argues Graham Maile. Something needs to be done
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April 03, 2012
Microsoft is moving its European software distribution centre out of Germany to the Netherlands to avoid the risk of having its products banned in the country if it loses a patent lawsuit later this month
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April 02, 2012
New York judge Colleen McMahon tells Karen Bolipata and a room full of judges why she went to law school, how she approaches patent cases, and why all judges need her invention, the e-Clerk
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April 02, 2012
Apple to protect a rectangle and EU agrees patent court venue? It must be April 1
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April 02, 2012
Margot Fröhlinger, a former senior official in the European Commission’s IP team, has taken on a new role
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April 02, 2012
Managing IP’s round-up of the IP events, decisions and meetings taking place week beginning April 2