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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
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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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March 16, 2012
The Marks & Clerk group has launched two new IP consultancy businesses in London and Paris
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March 15, 2012
Hogan Lovells won the inaugural global IP firm of the year award at tonight’s Managing IP Awards Dinner in London
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February 24, 2012
Apple and Samsung are pouring millions of dollars into litigation over the IP rights behind their smartphones and tablet computers. Managing IP considers which firms are benefitting
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February 08, 2012
Sanofi’s annual results have revealed that generic rival Apotex paid it and partner Bristol-Myers Squibb over $445 million to settle a dispute over blockbuster drug Plavix
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February 01, 2012
The annual ranking of the leading patent law firms and attorneys across Europe has been published, with changes to watch out for in France, Spain and Germany
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January 27, 2012
Free access: The nominations for Managing IP’s Global Awards 2012 have been announced
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January 20, 2012
A new law has come into force in France that will allow generic drugs companies to copy the colour and shape of drugs made by branded pharmaceutical companies
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January 18, 2012
More patents than ever were filed at the EPO last year, but the upward trend masks the shifting fortunes of developed and emerging economies
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November 14, 2011
Prosecution firm Avidity IP - recently rebranded from HLBBShaw and one of the few UK firms to be a limited company - announced an 89% increase in profits last month
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November 09, 2011
The EU, Japanese and US patent offices are aiming to issue first office actions within six months, the head of the EPO said at the meeting of the Trilateral offices
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November 08, 2011
A French company hit by a demand for a patent licence from a Texas-based non-practising entity has adopted an unusual litigation strategy
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November 07, 2011
At the end of September French software developer GroupCamp received a letter from Texas-based non-practising entity Lodsys accusing it of infringing its patents and inviting it to negotiate a licence. Now its founders have launched a website asking companies in the same situation to pool their knowledge and share prior art to defeat Lodsys’s patents. Managing IP spoke to Dickel Sooriah about GroupCamp’s unusual tactics
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October 20, 2011
EU member states have set a deadline of the end of this year for political agreement on a unified litigation system. But patent practitioners are increasingly worried about the details of the proposals
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October 07, 2011
Samsung is opening new European fronts in its smartphone patent battle with Apple
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June 01, 2011
The G8 included two paragraphs asserting support for IP rights in its declaration last week. Though abstract, they highlight the areas most likely to be targeted by future legislation
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May 14, 2011
Businesses are increasingly looking for value for money in IP enforcement, according to the third edition of Taylor Wessing's Global IP Index
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March 08, 2011
The proposed single European patent court is not compatible with the EU treaties, the Court of Justice in Luxembourg said today
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December 02, 2010
The European Commission will respond to a request to create an EU patent based on enhanced cooperation “within a few weeks”, Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier said today