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April 18, 2013
Managing IP presented trophies to the outstanding firms in 70 categories last night, as well as in-house and individual achievement awards. Here are all the winners
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February 25, 2013
Managing IP’s Global Awards Dinner recognising outstanding work in IP in the past year takes place in London on April 17. Winners will be selected from the following shortlists
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February 06, 2013
The patent rankings of the 2013 IP Survey have been released, with mergers, splits and hires leading to changes in the Europe and Asia tables
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January 25, 2013
A legal adviser to patent licensing company IPCom can inspect confidential licensing agreements signed by Nokia and HTC, a UK judge has ruled
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December 05, 2012
Managing IP provides a guide to the Court of Justice’s ruling in a case between AstraZeneca and generic-manufacturers about what constitutes abuse of a dominant position in the pharmaceutical sector
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December 03, 2012
One year after the Court of Justice of the EU limited the stem cell research that can be protected by patents in Brüstle, the German Federal Court has ruled in the original case
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November 30, 2012
A judge sitting in the High Court in London has said he can rule on whether patents in France, Germany, Italy and Spain are infringed in a single trial in the UK
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November 16, 2012
This week’s settlement between HTC and Apple means an end to at least 10 unresolved lawsuits across three countries involving around 39 patents and 21 firms. Here is a look at some of the patents the Apple-HTC agreement will cover, and the myriad firms representing the two companies
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November 15, 2012
While IP is an increasingly sought-after commodity, as emphasized by the gaudy $4.5 billion price tag from the Nortel patent auction, more work needs to be done before efficient IP markets become a reality
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November 09, 2012
Could an injunction granted on a standard-essential patent (SEP) turn European telecoms networks silent? Concerns such as this are putting patent judges in a quandary, as they revealed this week
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November 08, 2012
Yesterday an injunction against adidas over trainers that use a knitted upper was lifted in Germany. The dispute, brought by Nike, could start a series of patent cases in the sportswear industry
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October 23, 2012
How would courts in Germany, South Korea, China, Japan and the US rule in FRAND cases? Leading judges from each jurisdiction explained what they would do in a mock trial at the AIPPI Congress
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October 18, 2012
Sir Robin Jacob, sitting in the Court of Appeal in London, has issued a lengthy criticism of the Düsseldorf court as part of a ruling today against Apple
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September 05, 2012
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has continued its European recruitment drive by hiring arbitration partners Anthony Sinclair and Stephen Jagusch from Allen & Overy in London
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July 17, 2012
Smartphone makers are slugging it out in patent courts around the world. But what are the implications of their fights for other IP owners, antitrust regulators and the organisations that oversee standards setting? Managing IP asked Foss Patents author Florian Müller to explain
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June 29, 2012
Today the EU Council agreed that Paris should host the central division of the court, with judges in London and Munich hearing sector-specific cases
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June 12, 2012
Kerstin Jorna, the EU Commission official in charge of intellectual property, has told Managing IP that the debate over the proposed unitary patent package should be “de-dramatised”
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June 11, 2012
The commentaries on firms in Europe, the Middle East and Africa are now live on MIPHandbook.com, along with all the rankings from Managing IP's annual survey
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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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April 27, 2012
Prototype shoes, banned songs and poor grammar: have you been following the news in IP this week?