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March 02, 2012
Brussels was the setting for impassioned debate over the EU's approach to ACTA this week. But it wasn’t the only place where concerns were raised in Europe
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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 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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January 13, 2012
Litigators in Switzerland say the country’s new Federal Patent Court should make cases quicker and decisions more consistent
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January 13, 2012
The president of Switzerland’s new patent court talks to James Nurton about judges, language and competition between European jurisdictions
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December 20, 2011
Patent and trade mark filings rose 7.2% and 11.8% respectively in 2010, far ahead of global GDP growth at 5.1%, according to WIPO’s annual statistics report
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November 18, 2011
Carsten Fink, WIPO’s chief economist, explains the difficulties of collecting data and what surprised him most in the new World IP Report in an interview with Simon Crompton
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November 02, 2011
Despite speculation, figures show that if the US withdraws funding from WIPO in response to Palestine membership it will have little impact
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September 28, 2011
More than 1,000 IP officials are gathered in Geneva this week and next to debate, argue over and rubber stamp policy-making work being carried out by the World Intellectual Property Organization
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August 11, 2011
India’s Supreme Court has started hearing a key case on patentable subject matter involving Novartis’s drug Glivec
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July 28, 2011
Products placed on the market in the EU before obtaining a marketing authorisation cannot benefit from supplementary protection certificates, the Court of Justice of the EU said today
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June 30, 2011
Switzerland, Sweden and Singapore have been rated the most innovative in an index of 125 economies
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June 02, 2011
The European Commission’s latest proposal for a European patent court suggests there is a way round the Court of Justice’s negative opinion – by making the court less European
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May 25, 2011
Switzerland's new Federal Patent Court, which will open at the beginning of next year, will aim to settle around 50% of cases within seven months, its president said today
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April 06, 2011
WIPO deputy director general Jim Pooley gave an impassioned address defending the value of IP at today's International Patent Forum
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April 04, 2011
Later this month, World IP Day will celebrate the role of designers. Today, WIPO announced that international design filings grew by 33% in 2010
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March 08, 2011
The European Commission today said it will analyse the concerns raised by the Court of Justice "very carefully" to identify appropriate solutions
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January 14, 2011
As developed countries try to increase their tax revenue to reduce fiscal deficits, companies that move their IP into tax-efficient jurisdictions will come under increasing scrutiny
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October 06, 2010
It is crucial to use different forms of IP rights during different stages of a product’s life cycle to maximise protection, said Cornelis Schueller of Nestlé at the AIPPI International Congress this week
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June 11, 2010
Pharmaceutical companies have changed their approach to patent pools over the past two years, a senior adviser at drugs financing body UNITAID says