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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?
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April 05, 2012
Test your knowledge of this week’s IP developments. All the answers can be found in items on managingip.com published in the past five days
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April 03, 2012
Microsoft is moving its European software distribution centre out of Germany to the Netherlands to avoid the risk of having its products banned in the country if it loses a patent lawsuit later this month
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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 03, 2012
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
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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 24, 2012
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.
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December 12, 2011
Patent attorneys and IP owners who want protection for their stem cell research will soon get new guidance from the European Patent Office about what is, and is not, patentable
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December 08, 2011
The Court of Justice of the EU has ruled that member states can grant negative supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), which will help pharma companies win six-month research extensions
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November 24, 2011
Medeva and Georgetown could suffer from this morning’s ruling from the Court of Justice of the EU (CJ), despite being likely to win their cases
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October 19, 2011
In an exclusive interview, one of Germany’s leading patent judges speaks to James Nurton about bifurcation, harmonisation, the prospects for a European patent litigation system – and what makes a good litigator
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October 18, 2011
Today’s Court of Justice ruling in the Brüstle case is a blow to the biotechnology industry – but the decision is not all bad news for scientists, say IP lawyers
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October 18, 2011
Europe’s highest court has clarified the law on the patentability of processes involving research on human embryos and stem cells
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October 05, 2011
In contrast with Germany, where Apple used design patents to block the launch of Samsung’s Galaxy 10.1 tablet, the company that invented the iPad has used a combination of standard and innovation patents in Australia
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September 28, 2011
A private equity company has taken a majority stake in Zacco, the northern European IP consultancy
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September 22, 2011
Samsung and Apple have deepened their long-running in litigation over smartphone technology in Australia and Germany
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September 22, 2011
Indian generic drug maker Natco has filed a compulsory licence application for the patent covering German pharma company Bayer’s anti-cancer drug Nexavar