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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is looking to increase the accuracy of its registry by ensuring that actual use by brand owners line up with registrations, and Canada may have the answer. Peter Leung reports.

Telecoms companies have been litigating questions arising from standard essential patents and (F)RAND terms for more than a decade. But are they any closer to getting useful answers?

Peter Leung previews today’s session on developments in education and teaching in the U.S.

A patent litigation study by PwC found that patent litigation dropped 13% in the 2014 fiscal year while damages were the second-lowest in 20 years. In the past five years, the NPE median award was almost 4.5 times the median for practicing entities

Running a law firm is a stressful endeavor. It throws up issues such as balancing pricing pressure from clients with the need to maintain profitability; dealing with administrative and marketing responsibilities; facilitating more knowledge sharing within a firm; utilizing technology to make the firm more efficient; and handling staff and paralegals to provide more value to a firm.

IP attachés from the U.S. and the U.K. explained yesterday how they help brand owners deal with intellectual property issues abroad.

Tobacco companies Philip Morris International and BAT have launched a challenge to the UK government’s plain packaging legislation. Managing IP examines their arguments, which are based on human rights and trade mark law

Acorda has filed a preliminary response to Kyle Bass’s first IPR petition, claiming the petition should be rejected for reasons including the petitioner using IPR as a tool to manipulate markets and failing to mention its investors and identifying them as real parties-in-interest

Italian State Secretary for European Affairs Sandro Gozi confirmed that Italy will join the Unitary Patent during a public session of the EU Competitiveness Council in Brussels

What working practices and new services could disrupt the way that businesses seek legal advice on IP, or IP prosecution services?