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May 18, 2012
Managing IP asked Federal Circuit chief judge Randall Rader for permission to interview one of his trusted law clerks for a behind-the-scenes look into the country’s top IP court. We sat down with Ellen Lin in Washington DC to discuss what life is like at the CAFC
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May 15, 2012
Rosa Wilkinson joined the IPO in September last year after working with UK Trade and Investment and Lloyds Bank, where she served as director of public policy and regulation. She tells Emma Barraclough about her IP role
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April 13, 2012
Alan Lourie shares with Eileen McDermott why lawyers should never single-space long footnotes, how Section 101 law has become so confused, and his practical view of the Supreme Court’s reversal rate
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April 02, 2012
New York judge Colleen McMahon tells Karen Bolipata and a room full of judges why she went to law school, how she approaches patent cases, and why all judges need her invention, the e-Clerk
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March 26, 2012
“Licensing is the path forward”, Microsoft's corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of IP tells Eileen McDermott, explaining why it has shunned the patent wars
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February 16, 2012
An electric car, lunch at the Inn and excitement at the Applications Court - a day in the life of England & Wales High Court judge Mr Justice Arnold
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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 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 15, 2011
The world’s first IP exchange, based in Chicago, is set to launch next year. Eileen McDermott asked its CEO Gerard Pannekoek how it will work
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December 14, 2011
With the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee set to discuss the unitary patent package next week, Emma Barraclough speaks to MEP Cecilia Wikström
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December 14, 2011
Peter Ollier interviews Suresh Sachi, general counsel of A*Star, Singapore’s government research agency, about structuring an in-house team, the art of deal making and the city state’s drive to become an IP hub
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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 16, 2011
Tan Yih San, who took over as chief executive of the IP Office of Singapore in June, tells Peter Ollier about his plans for the office and how his time in the army has helped him prepare
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November 11, 2011
Following the European Court of Justice ruling on stem cell patents last month, Christoph Then, who helped Greenpeace to challenge the Brüstle patent, tells Managing IP why stem cell research will continue unscathed in Europe
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November 07, 2011
At the end of September French software developer GroupCamp received a letter from Texas-based non-practising entity Lodsys accusing it of infringing its patents and inviting it to negotiate a licence. Now its founders have launched a website asking companies in the same situation to pool their knowledge and share prior art to defeat Lodsys’s patents. Managing IP spoke to Dickel Sooriah about GroupCamp’s unusual tactics
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October 31, 2011
In an exclusive interview with Eileen McDermott, Judge T John Ward talks about transition, trials and patent trolls
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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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September 07, 2011
As patent stakeholders brace for an overhaul of the US patent system touted by supporters as a jobs creation vehicle, a report published last week by two law professors suggests that the America Invents Act may discourage small inventors from obtaining patent protection
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July 25, 2011
While David Kappos of the USPTO is struggling to get more money to cope with its backlog, SIPO is preparing to recruit 5,000 more examiners by 2015
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July 11, 2011
In an exclusive interview, Robert van Peursem – senior judge in the IP department of The Hague District Court in the Netherlands – talks to James Nurton about judicial freedom, patent reform and cowboy courts
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June 10, 2011
Eileen McDermott spoke with i4i chairman Loudon Owen about the company's victory over Microsoft yesterday in the Supreme Court
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April 13, 2011
Managing IP spoke with Microsoft’s associate general counsel, Andy Culbert, about the company’s imminent Supreme Court hearing in Microsoft v i4i