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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 26, 2012
Patent filings at the EPO reached a record level last year, with applications from Asian companies making up a bigger share of the total than ever
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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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January 27, 2012
Free access: The nominations for Managing IP’s Global Awards 2012 have been announced
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January 23, 2012
Willem Gijsels is an examiner in the telecommunications cluster at the EPO. He joined the Office in 1996 after five years in industry and works in The Hague. This EPO site is home to about 2,500 EPO staff, roughly half of whom are examiners. He tells Emma Barraclough about a typical working day
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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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October 31, 2011
Lawyers says that a Dutch ruling in a dispute between Apple and Samsung does not signal the end of standard-essential patent litigation in the Netherlands
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October 17, 2011
Samsung has failed in its attempt to persuade a Dutch court to block Apple from selling its iPhone and iPad tablet in the Netherlands
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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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August 26, 2011
Cross-border injunctions in preliminary proceedings are alive and well in the Netherlands, judging by this week’s decision in a dispute between Apple and Samsung
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August 24, 2011
Samsung will be barred from distributing three models of its Galaxy smartphone after rival Apple won a preliminary injunction in The Netherlands - and scrutiny over its tablet continues in Germany
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August 12, 2011
If anyone still doubted the value of having a registered Community design, Apple’s successful application for an injunction against Samsung should disabuse them
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August 10, 2011
A German court has issued an injunction preventing the sale of Samsung’s Galaxy 10.1 tablet computer in most European countries
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August 03, 2011
Generic drug company Teva has a date in court to defend its bold attempt to undermine blockbuster drug Lipitor in the UK
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July 14, 2011
Managing IP’s annual list of the 50 people shaping the future of intellectual property picks out some surprising and provocative individuals
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June 15, 2011
Apple has agreed to make a one-time payment and continuing royalty payments to Nokia in a licence agreement that settles all outstanding patent litigation between the two companies
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March 10, 2011
Today (March 10) is the deadline for Sony to challenge a Playstation 3 seizure order granted to LG in the Netherlands
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December 22, 2010
A dispute over a key mobile telecoms patent in Germany and the Netherlands is the latest to highlight divergence between Europe’s patent courts
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October 06, 2010
Four years after Europe’s top court severely limited the potential to obtain cross-border injunctions for European patents, a Dutch decision could reopen the possibility in cases where defendants are accused of infringing patent rights in a number of countries