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• Red bags and chambers tea: a day in the life of a barristers’ clerk

  Sue Harding is the senior clerk at Hogarth Chambers, a set of barristers in London that specialises in IP and chancery work. She tells Emma Barraclough what it’s like to help a group of self-employed advocates manage their business

• Workflow and production: daily life at the USPTO

  James Kramer is a patent examiner at the USPTO in a team that deals with applications related to finance: from trading and portfolio management to banking. He tells Emma Barraclough about working life in Alexandria, Virginia

• Apple loses to Motorola over email patent

  Motorola has won a permanent injunction against Apple over the latter’s iCloud service, just as a previous win forces Apple to remove its iPads from the shelves

• Quiz of the week – January 30 to February 3

  Test your knowledge of the week’s IP news in Managing IP’s new weekly quiz

• USPTO tacks hefty fees on new patent procedures

  Independent inventors and SMEs may be out of luck if they want their patents reviewed by the USPTO

• Managing IP North America Awards 2012 – shortlists revealed

  Free access: The nominations for Managing IP’s North America Awards 2012 have been announced

• Indian firms fight for share of patent work

  New firms are emerging, and Mumbai is catching up with Delhi, in the highly competitive Indian patent market

• New leading firms emerge in China

  A new name in the top tier for patent prosecution is the most notable of a number of changes in this year’s IP survey in China

EU patent

• Unitary patent on Council agenda

  Heads of government at today’s EU Council meeting will be discussing the euro, youth unemployment and boosting enterprise - but they may also find time to break the deadlock on the planned unitary patent

• It’s now or never for EU patent reform - Commission

  If EU member states ever want to get a deal on the patent reform package they need to put their negotiating cards on the table, a senior Commission official said today

• EU agreement held up over seat of court

  EU ministers came close to agreeing a full package of patent reforms last night – but not close enough. The main hurdle that remains to be crossed is the location of the central division of the proposed unified patent court

• Ministers close to EU patent deal

  European ministers meeting in Brussels could reach agreement on the elements of a patent reform package by the end of today

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Hyatt v Kappos

• Supreme Court gets tough on USPTO in Kappos v Hyatt

  The USPTO today faced aggressive questioning from Supreme Court justices regarding the agency’s request to overturn a Federal Circuit en banc ruling it says will encourage patent applicants to withhold evidence in examination

• New standard for civil suits against the USPTO

  A full panel of the Federal Circuit ruled last week that patent applicants may present new evidence in civil actions challenging decisions by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences

• Rules seek to curb BPAI backlog

  The Hyatt v Kappos decision is particularly significant, as the number of appeals being heard by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) has increased exponentially in recent years

• USPTO implements new rules on patent appeals

  The USPTO has published controversial new rules on filing appeals before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences that will change the way patent practitioners craft appeals briefs

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Patent prosecution highway

• Germany and China launch PPH

  IP owners in Germany and China can now apply to have their patent applications examined more quickly after the German Patent and Trademark Office and China’s State Intellectual Property Office launched a patent prosecution highway yesterday.

• China joins PPH network

  The first ever patent prosecution highway involving China’s State Intellectual Property Office will launch tomorrow with the Japan Patent Office

• USPTO in worksharing spree

  The USPTO has stepped up its international patent prosecution cooperation efforts in an attempt to reach its worksharing goals

• EPO and USPTO to extend pilot PPH

  The European Patent Office and the USPTO have agreed to extend the pilot patent prosecution highway (PPH) between the two offices for another 16 months.

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