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September 28, 2009
In addition to key developments in the Google Book settlement, policy issues are discussed on the blogosphere this week, with the German elections, internationalised domain names, Bayh-Dole in India and the importance of IP under scrutiny
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September 28, 2009
Patent attorneys have welcomed plans to allow PCT applications to be fast-tracked under bilateral patent prosecution highways between the world’s three biggest IP offices
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September 21, 2009
Australia is to fast track applications for green technology in a move that could cut pendency to just four weeks, the government says
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September 17, 2009
Four candidates will stand for the position of EPO president, after nominations closed on September 15.
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September 16, 2009
New USPTO director David Kappos distinguished himself from past leaders during his first public address by pledging to share “the good, the bad and the ugly” about the agency
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September 14, 2009
The US court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed a district court’s finding that Microsoft infringed Lucent’s patents, but struck down the $511 million damages award
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September 14, 2009
The biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries have urged President Barack Obama not to neglect the role of innovation in his bid to ensure access to affordable and high-quality health care
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September 11, 2009
A group of telecoms and broadcasting companies are in talks to set up a patent pool for the IP rights in DVB-T2, a technology for broadcasting digital TV on terrestrial networks
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September 07, 2009
This week IP bloggers have assessed ambitious calls for patent reform, analysed the usefulness of Google’s design patent and questioned a WIPO domain name decision
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September 07, 2009
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has granted Microsoft a stay of injunctive relief in its patent infringement suit with i4i
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September 07, 2009
Australian universities will be reviewing their IP policies after a court sided with a professor in a dispute with his former university over patent ownership
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September 03, 2009
The USPTO’s commissioner for patents and former acting director of the agency, John Doll, will retire on October 2
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September 01, 2009
Demand for patents over so-called green business methods is rising, just as standards of patent eligibility in the US have been significantly narrowed. Joseph Helmsen and Ritu Singh explain how to draft claims to meet the new test
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September 01, 2009
Two years ago the USPTO, academics and some of the biggest companies in the US embraced the peer-to-patent project as a way of tackling mounting patent backlogs. In June the pilot scheme was suspended. So what happens next? Eileen McDermott investigates
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September 01, 2009
From Venkatesh Hariharan, corporate affairs director, Red Hat