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April 29, 2009
Novartis products won two of the four awards at the 2009 European Inventor of the Year Awards last night
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April 29, 2009
Qualcomm and Broadcom announced on Sunday that they have settled all pending patent litigation over technology used in the microprocessors that power mobile phones
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April 28, 2009
The Supreme People’s Court has published its list of the top 10 IP cases in China in 2008.
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April 23, 2009
The UK government has revealed plans to fast-track so-called green patents in an effort to boost environmentally friendly technology
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April 21, 2009
UNITAID and the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative have agreed a deal with generic drugs makers that should cut the cost of paediatric and second-line antiretroviral (ARV) medicines used in the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
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April 16, 2009
The European Commission’s pharmaceutical sector enquiry could have “a chilling effect on innovation in Europe” if the preliminary report is carried through into its final version, according to a pharmaceutical company executive
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April 16, 2009
French electronics company Schneider is to pay Rmb157.5 million ($23 million) to Chinese rival Chint Group to end a controversial patent fight
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April 16, 2009
French electronics company Schneider is to pay Rmb157.5 million ($23 million) to Chinese rival Chint Group to end a controversial patent fight
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April 16, 2009
The European Court of Justice should be reformed to improve the quality of decisions and reduce its backlog, judges said yesterday
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April 15, 2009
A single European Community patent could be implemented without all EU member states, a European Commission official said today
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April 13, 2009
IP judges, academics, regulators and practitioners are set to gather in Cambridge this week for the first Fordham IP Conference to be held outside of the US
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April 09, 2009
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last week ruled in a closely watched biotechnology case that an invention relating to the isolation and sequencing of a human gene was “obvious to try”
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April 06, 2009
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved an amended version of the US Patent Reform Act (S515) that is said to include significant compromises on provisions that have kept the bill deadlocked thus far
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April 06, 2009
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved an amended version of the US Patent Reform Act (S515) that is said to include significant compromises on provisions that have kept the bill deadlocked thus far
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April 06, 2009
TomTom last week agreed to settle with Microsoft on both patent infringement suits pending between the two companies
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April 03, 2009
IP Australia’s proposed reforms to the country’s patent system are poorly thought through, partly unnecessary and will increase prosecution costs for businesses, say lawyers
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April 03, 2009
IP Australia’s proposed reforms to the country’s patent system are poorly thought through, partly unnecessary and will increase prosecution costs for businesses, say lawyers
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April 01, 2009
Fasten your seatbelts. John M Carson, Alan Kessler and Hugh Dunlop explain how the PPH works in practice, and ask which applicants will most benefit from it
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April 01, 2009
Patent protection and enforcement can be a complex undertaking in Latin America. Corporate and private practice professionals, and a WIPO representative, discuss strategies
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April 01, 2009
Barry J Herman and Eric W Schweibenz advise non-US companies on how they can meet the domestic industry requirement at the US ITC
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April 01, 2009
Patent reform is back on the agenda in Congress. But, says Eileen McDermott in New York, industry remains divided - especially over how to calculate damages
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April 01, 2009
Practitioners have welcomed a UK House of Lords decision to uphold Lundbeck's patent for escitalopram
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April 01, 2009
The Federal Circuit last month reversed a lower court ruling that said the USPTO did not have authority to promulgate rules on claims and continuations
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April 01, 2009
Letter to the editor, from Steven Bennett and David Kappos, IBM