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June 28, 2019
Lawyers who have regular dealings with the EPO are sceptical about the office’s four-year strategic plan – given its alleged focus on speed over quality – and call for more clarity over staff relations
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June 28, 2019
For any in-house lawyers considering a move to private practice, a key lesson is to specialise in something – and not be afraid of timesheets, as Matt Jones of EIP explains from first-hand experience
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June 27, 2019
Managing IP rounds up the latest news and analysis from in-house counsel in patent-focused businesses
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June 27, 2019
With the EU SPC Manufacturing Waiver due to come into force next week, innovators, generics and patent offices say that they are looking at which products might be affected and whether to charge notification fees
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June 27, 2019
Proposed legislation in the US House of Representatives seeks to limit patent term extension for pharmaceutical products in a way that pharma innovators say would stifle innovation and not solve potential drug pricing problems
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June 26, 2019
In-house counsel say they would have preferred to have seen more robust changes in the fourth amendment to China’s Patent Law as well as better predictability of rulings
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June 25, 2019
With insurtech patents increasing by 40% in 2017, in-house counsel at Allstate, The Hartford and elsewhere say filings will continue to go up as they seek to become more customer-centric organisations
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June 25, 2019
Managing IP sits down with WIPO director general Francis Gurry, who considers the connection between liability and IP rights, whether data subjects rather than aggregators should be afforded rights, and if humans’ days are numbered
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June 21, 2019
Speakers at Managing IP’s inaugural innovation and litigation summit at the Fairmont in San Francisco discussed topics ranging from using data in IP to litigation strategies at the PTAB and ITC
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June 21, 2019
Managing IP rounds up the latest news and analysis from in-house counsel in patent-focused businesses
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June 20, 2019
Huawei, Nokia and other SEP-focused firms speak on the authority of UK courts to set a global rate, how to set FRAND rates and whether arbitration could be a better solution to disputes
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June 20, 2019
With AI patents increasing 400% over the past decade, businesses, regulators and philosophers ask where AI inventions will go next and how best to answer ethical questions of ownership and liability
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June 20, 2019
A senior in-house lawyer from a global media company on how a lack of pricing transparency from HEVC compression tech licensing platforms stalled the launch of 4k-enabled discs and streaming in the video content industry
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June 20, 2019
Confo Therapeutics, UCB and Valneva say unitary SPCs could help solve some of the problems in the SPC system, but disagree on whether the proposed right should be given to the EPO or put elsewhere
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June 20, 2019
Francis Gurry says liability in the event of AI-related accidents could shift from traditional interpretations, and that he rejects the idea of affording patent protection to machine inventors
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June 19, 2019
In-house counsel at Getty, Expedia and the BBC tell Managing IP about the opportunities and threats posed by AI, and call for clarification over Brexit
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June 18, 2019
Leaders of the IPO’s Women in IP subcommittee share how their upcoming toolkit for gender parity will be bigger, better, and easier to use than the last
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June 18, 2019
UK Supreme Court judge Lord Justice David Kitchin says he is not convinced AI-created works warrant the same IP protection as human creations
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June 14, 2019
In an exclusive interview with High Court judge Richard Arnold, reporters Charlotte Kilpatrick and Max Walters learn the dos and don’ts of getting on his good side, his views of his high-profile IP cases and how he decides matters; and gets an exciting glimpse at his bookshelf
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June 14, 2019
Facebook’s head of patents Jeremiah Chan expressed frustration with outside counsel’s non-engagement with patent data and lack of measurable goals at Managing IP’s Innovation and Litigation Summit
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June 13, 2019
Managing IP rounds up the latest news and analysis from patent-focused businesses on German injunctions, fintech partnerships and plausibility conundrums
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June 13, 2019
Lawyers say patent owners should consider applying for supplementary protection certificates soon now that a date has been set for the waiver to come into force, and that litigation tactics could change further down the line
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June 13, 2019
Drug company lawyers say it is tricky determining the right kind and amount of data to support a claim because courts and examiners have different expectations of sufficiency to determine plausibility
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June 13, 2019
In-house counsel at MasterCard, American Express, MIAX and elsewhere explain how their growing number of fintech partnerships is affecting negotiations and increasing the risk of trade secret and patent litigation
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June 13, 2019
In an exclusive interview with UK High Court judge Mr Justice Arnold, Patent Strategy learns the dos and don’ts of getting on his good side and how he decides cases; and gets an exciting glimpse at his bookshelf
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June 12, 2019
Siemens, Nokia, the VDMA and others weigh in on government talks around automatic injunctions and agree that more judges and perhaps a lower hurdle to stay infringement proceedings are needed at the Federal Patent Court
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June 12, 2019
UK High Court judge Mr Justice Arnold speaks about how judges can set the agenda and dealing with obfuscating counsel in an exclusive interview with Managing IP
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June 11, 2019
Lawyers say this keenly-awaited Supreme Court decision clarifies that long standing precedent has not been overcome in a case where the postal service attempted to challenge a patent under the America Invents Act on the grounds that it was a person
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June 11, 2019
A shift of burden of proof from plaintiffs to defendants will encourage more businesses to take trade secrets to court, say in-house counsel
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June 10, 2019
Nissan and Toyota see need for more industry collaboration in future of mobility, the LESI conference heard
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June 07, 2019
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June 07, 2019
Managing IP rounds up the latest news and analysis from patent-focused businesses on 5G, the PTAB, inventive step and second medical use reform
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June 06, 2019
Germany’s top court has refused a request for a compulsory licence, a decision that reaffirms the high bar that must be met, according to German and UK lawyers
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June 06, 2019
After the UK Supreme Court's ruling in Actavis v Icos, pharma innovators say there is no such thing as routine testing and that it is difficult to discern what might be considered obvious in dosage regimens
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June 06, 2019
With more diverse non-telecoms businesses using 5G tech, licensing discussions for standard essential patents are likely to increase and become more difficult to negotiate, leading patentees to promote better licensing education
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June 05, 2019
Generic and innovator in-house lawyers agree that serious reform to the way medications are prescribed is needed to avoid patent infringement on secondary uses, and that they will need to work together to make that change
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June 05, 2019
Senior sources from high-tech, gaming and financial services companies explain how they succeed in their inter partes reviews and covered business method actions to invalidate broad patents filed by non-practising entities
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June 04, 2019
CPA Global worked with Managing IP and Thought Leadership Consulting to compile findings on what in-house counsel look for in external IP firms, what law firms look for when co-operating with other IP firms and what firms and in-house counsel seek from technology providers
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June 04, 2019
IP counsel at Nikon and GE (China) shared best practices for operating in China and the US, both of which present their own challenges for patent owners
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June 03, 2019
A plea from Johnson & Johnson’s chief trademark counsel to be “less lawyerly”, the latest AI patent trends and a Google counsel’s explanation of why he has had to fire attorneys were among May’s most popular stories