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December 31, 2013
Jeffrey Lewis may have finished his term as president of AIPLA in October but he is determined to continue to push for change on attorney-client privilege
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December 30, 2013
Apple and Samsung have reportedly resumed talks in an effort to settle their differences over patent infringement claims relating to smartphone technology.
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December 19, 2013
The long-running legal battle between InterDigital and Huawei took a new twist this week after InterDigital claimed its representatives were threatened with arrest by China’s antitrust authorities.
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December 19, 2013
Google has joined the board of the Open Invention Network, an organisation that offers free licences to a portfolio of patents as an incentive not to sue open-source software projects including Linux.
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December 19, 2013
Patrick Leahy this week has been trying to convince his fellow senators of the need to pass patent reform. But the Democratic Senator from Vermont, who serves as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been doing it without his former top adviser on IP issues
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December 18, 2013
Following swift passage in Washington of comprehensive patent legislation by the House of Representatives, the Senate signals it is on a much slower timetable. Some are also trying to get the controversial issue of expanding the CBM programme back on the agenda.
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December 18, 2013
As US politicians from both parties call for legislation to curb abusive patent litigation, patent assertion entity Intellectual Ventures has revealed a searchable list of more than 33,000 of its patents to the public.
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December 18, 2013
Applying the existing US damages law consistently would go a long way to reducing the troll problem, it was argued during a web seminar entitled Patent Trolls & Damages held by Managing IP in association with LexisNexis
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December 17, 2013
The way in which the USPTO calculates patent term adjustments has been challenged in several recent court cases.
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December 15, 2013
Law firms Wragge & Co and Lawrence Graham are to merge next year, following a vote by the partners last week
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December 13, 2013
The US Solicitor General has filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to agree to hear Akamai v Limelight, a case concerning whether patent infringement can occur when two separate parties perform different steps of a method claim.
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December 11, 2013
The director of the USPTO’s Silicon Valley satellite office will become deputy director of the agency in January.
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December 11, 2013
Former USPTO acting director Teresa Stanek Rea, who left the agency last month, spoke to Alli Pyrah about her move to Crowell & Moring, following in the footsteps of David Kappos, and the challenges that face the USPTO
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December 10, 2013
Six members of US Congress have written to US President Barack Obama expressing concern that "secret" negotiations over intellectual property in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement benefit pharmaceutical companies at the expense of public health.
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December 09, 2013
Unitary patent fees will be confirmed “in 2014”, but it is impossible to be more precise than that, according to EPO President Benoît Battistelli. But he also claims that concern over fees is greatly exaggerated
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December 09, 2013
Applications from the Chinese for IP rights around the world have helped to drive levels of global IP growth in 2012, with global patent filings growing at their fastest rate for 18 years
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December 06, 2013
The Supreme Court has confirmed it will hear oral arguments in Alice’s dispute with CLS Bank, in a case that will rule on the extent to which software and business methods are patentable.
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December 06, 2013
Four candidates will run for the Director General post at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), including the current Director General, Australian Francis Gurry.
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December 06, 2013
Universities such as Caltech are often held up as examples of good NPEs in discussions about intellectual property. What sorts of challenges do they face?
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December 06, 2013
Members of the upper house in Australia’s parliament have called for the government to publish the final text of the trans-Pacific free trade deal before it is signed off by the cabinet
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December 06, 2013
The Innovation Act was passed by the House of Representatives in a 325-91 vote yesterday, despite some heated opposition. It survived amendments that would have removed provisions moving to a loser-pays system and diluted the covered stay provisions
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December 05, 2013
Former USPTO director David Kappos believes patent reform is being "rushed" in the House, with the Goodlatte bill up for vote this week, and has identified a number of issues with the legislation.
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December 05, 2013
AIPLA has written to Congress saying it cannot support the Innovation Act because of objections to several provisions within the bill and the speed with which the legislation has moved forward.
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December 04, 2013
Two technology giants – and two colourful lawyers – are to clash today, when the appeal hearing Oracle v Google gets underway at the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC
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December 02, 2013
With a vote on the Goodlatte bill scheduled for December 4, observers are concerned that progress is moving too fast on patent reform in the House of Representatives and complain that interested stakeholders have not had a fair chance to have their say.
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November 28, 2013
The number of patent applications filed at the five biggest IP offices grew 11% in 2012 to 1.876 million, according to figures published in the latest IP5 Statistics Report
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November 28, 2013
EIP, a UK-based firm bringing together patent attorneys and lawyers, has opened an office in Dusseldorf, Germany
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November 28, 2013
The European Commission has today proposed a directive on trade secrets to replace the patchwork of rules across the EU
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November 28, 2013
Prabha Sridevan, whose stint as the chairperson of India’s IP Appellate Board (IPAB) ended in August, tells Peter Leung about why India has higher patentability standards and why she thinks the IPAB is the most important tribunal in the country
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November 27, 2013
IP professors from across the United States have written to Congress suggesting reforms to curb abusive patent litigation
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November 26, 2013
Nine out of 10 Europeans have not bought counterfeit products or downloaded illegally in the past 12 months, according to a report on perceptions of IP published by OHIM this week
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November 22, 2013
Sierra Wireless has complained to the US Federal Trade Commission and the European Commission that the Finnish telecoms company is abusing a dominant position in GSM and 3G standard-essential patents
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November 22, 2013
Major patent reform bills advanced in both chambers of the US Congress this week as lawmakers followed through on threats to craft new laws designed to curb frivolous patent infringement litigation
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November 21, 2013
A jury has found that Samsung owes Apple another $290 million for infringing Apple’s smartphone patents, bringing the total damages to around $900 million
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November 21, 2013
Dealing with the patent troll problem in the United States demands tackling both litigation abuse and patent quality, according to Allen Lo of Google
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November 21, 2013
The Court of Appeal in London has clarified when national courts should try patent cases where the EPO is considering whether the patent in dispute is valid
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November 21, 2013
Google is at the heart of the debate on patent reform in the United States. Last week, James Nurton spoke to the company’s deputy general counsel, patents and patent litigation, Allen Lo, about how its patent strategy has evolved, why it believes there is a troll problem, and what legal changes are needed. Here is the full transcript of the interview
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November 20, 2013
The Supreme People’s Court’s eight model IP cases show a willingness to shift evidentiary burdens to uncooperative defendants
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November 19, 2013
House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte introduced an amendment to his patent reform bill yesterday that would drop his plan to expand covered business method (CBM) review to software patents
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November 19, 2013
The Federal Circuit has revived Apple’s plea to ban US sales of Samsung tablets and smartphones found by a jury last year to be infringing Apple’s patents
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November 18, 2013
In the PTAB’s first ruling under the inter partes review system in the US, the Board found in favour of Garmin and invalidated Cuozzo’s patents covering LCD technology
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November 14, 2013
Businesspeople, academics and public interest organisations urged the US House of Representatives to consider legislative fixes to combat patent trolls including a registry of demand letters run by the FTC
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November 13, 2013
China’s State Council is seeking comments on draft revisions to the patent examination guidelines to allow for design patent protection for computer program graphic user interfaces (GUIs)
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November 13, 2013
Lawyers at a conference in New York on Friday debated whether the Supreme Court is “less enamoured with patents” than the Federal Circuit
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November 12, 2013
The FTC has issued final changes to the premerger notification rules governing how pharmaceutical companies must report the acquisition of exclusive patent rights to the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ)
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November 12, 2013
Barrister Richard Hacon has been named as the successor to Colin Birss as the judge of the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC, formerly the Patents County Court) in London
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November 12, 2013
The UK has edged ahead of Germany to rank as the number one IP regime in the world in the fourth edition of the Global IP Index, compiled by law firm Taylor Wessing
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November 08, 2013
There was strong rhetoric at a Thursday US Senate hearing on deceptive practices by patent monetisation firms, with trolls accused of extortion and fraud and "whistleblowers" urged to come forward
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November 08, 2013
A European Commission official this week urged industry “to find a balanced solution” to the questions arising from the licensing of standard-essential patents
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November 08, 2013
The Mannheim Regional Court has stayed royalty rate-related litigation between Apple and Motorola Mobility until the European Commission has finished its investigation into the company’s use of standard-essential patents (SEPs) against Apple
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November 08, 2013
Fancy being a judge at Europe’s new Unified Patents Court? You have just one week left to apply. But competition may be fierce
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November 08, 2013
The country's amended industrial design law, which came into effect on July 1, seeks to bring Malaysia closer to international standards
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November 06, 2013
Twitter has received a letter from IBM accusing it of infringing at least three IBM patents just days before the social networking site's Initial Public Offering
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November 05, 2013
The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in a case which may shed light on who has the burden of proof when a patent licensee is accused of infringing the patent.
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November 04, 2013
ZTE and its well-developed portfolio development strategy is often held up as a model for big, international Chinese IP owners. But as it increases its presence in foreign markets, does it have the patent arsenal it needs to survive?
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November 01, 2013
The Rockstar consortium, which bought the Nortel patent portfolio for $4.5 billion, has sued cell phone manufacturers as well as Google for patent infringement
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October 31, 2013
A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives that would finally end the diversion of USPTO fees away from the agency
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October 31, 2013
As the dust settles on introduction of the main patent reform bill in the US House of Representatives, stakeholders are parsing the text and pressing for changes
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October 31, 2013
The High Court in London has backed Nokia’s claim that HTC infringed one of its patents, which the Taiwanese handset maker had argued was invalid