The Top 250 Women in IP 2020 Managing IP reveals this year's leading female IP practitioners in private practice By Managing IP Correspondent May 29 2020
This week in IP – EU chief wants SEP ‘solutions’, Australian patent reform, all or noth... Managing IP rounds up the latest trademark, patent and copyright news, including some stories you may have missed By Patrick Wingrove May 29 2020
Managing IP Asia-Pacific Awards 2020 We have published the shortlists for the Managing IP Asia-Pacific Awards 2020 By Kingsley Egbuonu May 28 2020
Innovators reassured by ventilator IP indemnity The UK government’s promise to indemnify IP infringement liabilities of new ventilator makers appeases medical device innovators By Charlotte Kilpatrick May 28 2020
Four ways litigators can help clients crush tighter case budgets In-house counsel at Sanofi, Nokia, Huawei, Western Digital and a generics firm reveal how external lawyers can help them manage shrinking litigation budgets By Patrick Wingrove May 28 2020
Survey: In-house to shift COVID litigation work to law firms More than 400 senior counsel and business executives told us how COVID-19 has affected their legal teams – and how they have responded By Ed Conlon May 26 2020
Trial and error: India’s virtual courts experiment still needs work Justice Mukta Gupta, in-house counsel and lawyers share concerns about cross-examinations, participant discipline and open justice By Karry Lai May 26 2020
PTAB polarises in-house survey respondents There’s no clear consensus on the PTAB, but three quarters of respondents say USPTO director Iancu is doing a good job, in the finale of our in-house survey By Rani Mehta May 22 2020
Driverless car makers like IP extension idea, but doubt the need In-house counsel at Volvo, Waymo and elsewhere say calls to make up for regulatory delays by extending PTEs to automotive could be ‘disingenuous’ By Patrick Wingrove May 22 2020
This week in IP – INTA goes virtual, in-person hearings halted, Walmart and Alibaba mak... Managing IP rounds up the latest patent, trademark and copyright news, including some stories you may have missed By Patrick Wingrove May 21 2020
Waymo chief on driverless car IP: ‘Prepare for all outcomes’ In an exclusive interview, assistant general counsel Van Nguy delves into IP flexibility, trade secrets, AV portfolio management and more By Patrick Wingrove May 21 2020
Three quarters in-house counsel want remote hearings in future Virtual hearings after COVID are desired and Delaware is the preferred litigation forum among 54 US-based respondents to a Managing IP survey By Rani Mehta May 20 2020
Health bodies push for COVID patent pool to fight ‘IP hoarding’ Panellists from the WHO, Unitaid, MPP and other bodies explain why IP pooling is essential to ensuring global access to COVID-19 innovations By Charlotte Kilpatrick May 20 2020
Young counsel ‘love’ for pro-bono helps firms train and retain Lawyers say doing free patent prosecution work for independent inventors and small businesses gives them more experience and job satisfaction By Patrick Wingrove May 19 2020
Survey: In-house counsel on the US patent landscape Fifty four in-house counsel took our survey on how the US patent pendulum has moved and how the courts and the USPTO have changed By Rani Mehta May 18 2020
China Supreme Court IP plan has bite but needs more teeth IP counsel from IBM, New Balance and NewMarket Services say trade secret protection and bad-faith trademarks remain problematic By Karry Lai May 18 2020
This week in IP – Plants non-patentable (again), SCOTUS swats preclusion rule, National... Managing IP rounds up the latest trademark, copyright and patent news, including some stories you might have missed By Patrick Wingrove May 15 2020
In-house survey: Trump takes early edge over Biden on IP The US is not too patent friendly, and Section 101 and low-quality patents are the most important issues, according to 54 respondents to a Managing IP poll By Rani Mehta May 14 2020
Experts warn AI inventorship debate will only heat up AI legal specialists debated how companies will manage if machines continue to be refused patent inventorship By Charlotte Kilpatrick May 14 2020
German FRAND ruling forces implementers to raise their game Lawyers explain how the recent Federal Court of Justice’s decision will level the playing field in FRAND negotiations By Charlotte Kilpatrick May 14 2020
Here to virtuality: NDCA judge to seek court reform after COVID James Donato says he will seek to permanently institute online hearings and expert ‘hot-tubbing’ after the lockdown, and to stop the ‘death of the trial’ By Patrick Wingrove May 13 2020
Japanese businesses welcome Design Act revision Sources say that a strategic approach is needed to ensure that businesses can make the most of a widened and extended scope of protection By Karry Lai May 12 2020
Five US judges: counsel help needed to ease COVID backlog Delaware, California and Texas judges, including Len Stark, James Donato and Rodney Gilstrap, want lawyers to co-operate and respect new safety provisions By Patrick Wingrove May 11 2020
This week in IP – SCOTUS streams arguments, China publishes copyright law, new German F... Managing IP rounds up the latest patent, trademark and copyright news, including some you may have missed By Patrick Wingrove May 07 2020
DPMA chief: early tech use helped ease COVID-19 strain Cornelia Rudloff-Schäffer says the office’s existing tech capabilities have helped to mitigate the COVID-19 impact, but casts doubt on some digital hearings By Max Walters May 07 2020
Virtual hearings seen as creative compromise in Germany New technologies and procedures might become more of a norm in German courtrooms as the country eases its way out of lockdown By Charlotte Kilpatrick May 07 2020
A stranger’s guide to pharma IP collaboration during COVID-19 In-house counsel from Eli Lilly, Novartis and other companies set out how to protect IP in collaborations with third parties and competitors By Charlotte Kilpatrick May 07 2020
Royalty Pharma ‘throws grenade’ into patent filing calculations Lawyers lay out how the CJEU decision has provided some clarity on SPC law but raised confusion around the terms ‘developed’ and ‘independent’ By Patrick Wingrove May 06 2020
Facebook IP head revisiting priorities amid lockdown In an interview, Allen Lo sets out how COVID-19 has made speed a priority, how Facebook considers diversity in outside counsel and why more patents aren’t always better By Rani Mehta May 06 2020
COVID-19: Chinese courts offer practical tips for virtual trials Lawyers praise China’s efforts with virtual proceedings but believe evidence authentication and technology platforms can be improved By Karry Lai May 04 2020
Six NPEs speak out on licensing and litigation: ‘We're not trolls’ Blackbird, IPCom, Dominion Harbor, Longhorn IP, Acacia Research and Harfang IP share their distinct strategies for patent acquisition, licensing and litigation By Patrick Wingrove May 04 2020
IP STARS 2020: New rankings for firms and practitioners We published more than 60 IP ranking tables and the rankings of the leading IP practitioners in private practice By Kingsley Egbuonu May 03 2020
Government leaders on going private: ‘recognition gets clients’ Ex-senior US officials, including David Kappos and Bruce Hoffman, reveal their experiences of going back to private practice and the impact their status has By Rani Mehta May 01 2020
