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  • Dualit wins UK dispute Nespresso-compatible coffee capsules

    April 26, 2013

    The High Court in London has ruled that Dualit, a UK company that makes coffee machines and capsules, is able to sell Dualit NX capsules that are compatible with Nestle’s Nespresso machines

  • Concerns raised over Chinese patent law amendment

    April 19, 2013

    A former official who helped draft the second and third revisions of the Chinese Patent Law has said that proposals to revise the law a fourth time include some “potentially problematic” changes

  • Global Awards Winners 2013

    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

  • Patent box fails to translate into UK applications

    March 26, 2013

    With just a week to go before a new tax break for patent owners comes into effect in the UK, data from the country’s IP office suggests it is having little effect on domestic patenting activity

  • UK Supreme Court defines “makes” in Schütz v Werit

    March 13, 2013

    After three judgments over nearly five years in the Schütz v Werit dispute, we now finally know what is meant by the word “makes” in the UK Patents Act 1977

  • What's on week beginning March 4

    March 01, 2013

    Managing IP lists the IP-related meetings and court cases taking place this week

  • Global Awards 2013: shortlists

    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

  • Largest ever MIP survey reveals the world’s leading patent firms

    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

  • Can you take a lien over your clients' patents? IPReg explains the rules

    February 05, 2013

    The body in charge of regulating the conduct of IP attorneys in the UK has clarified when attorneys may take liens over their clients’ IP rights

  • What's on this week

    February 04, 2013

    Managing IP lists the IP-related cases and events taking place this week

  • UK IP Tsar ruled out

    January 29, 2013

    The UK minister in charge of intellectual property rejected calls from members of the House of Lords yesterday for the creation of a new IP Tsar post

  • What’s on this week

    January 28, 2013

    Managing IP lists the IP-related events taking place this week

  • IPCom wins access to licences in FRAND case

    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

  • Cable sets out his IP vision

    December 18, 2012

    UK Business Secretary Vince Cable this week set out a series of plans to promote creativity and innovation, but many IP owners are unconvinced by the detail of the reforms

  • The best things we've read this year

    December 18, 2012

    Managing IP’s editors have scanned the trillions of words written on IP in the past year, and selected their favourite 25 articles from publications such as Fortune, BusinessWeek and the Economist as well as IP blogs and of course Managing IP itself. We’ve also included some infographics, pictures and video

  • AstraZeneca readies for CJEU ruling in generics case

    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

  • What's on this week

    December 03, 2012

    Managing IP lists the IP-related meetings and decisions due this week

  • UK judge to rule on foreign patent infringement

    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

  • Why it doesn’t pay to make London’s judges cross

    November 29, 2012

    Lawyers for Air Canada might be expected to have shuffled a little uneasily in their seats last week after a High Court judge declared their costs to be “out of proportion” and requiring “the closest possible scrutiny”. It’s just the latest example of London judges handing out very public rebukes to litigants and their lawyers, as Managing IP explains

  • What’s on this week

    November 26, 2012

    Managing IP lists the IP-related decisions and meetings taking place this week

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