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  • The ITC has issued a preliminary judgment in the Crocs design patent case, marking another big win for design patent owners - but the case may also have some unexpected implications
  • The scope of liability for indirectly infringing a patent appears to be widening in Europe. Suppliers should reconsider their contracts and edit instruction booklets, say Sebastian Moore and Christopher Sharp
  • Next year a range of cases and law changes will affect all copyright owners – from authors to musicians to film makers – but the dominant issue will be the increasingly global and bitter debate over who should be liable for clamping down on online infringement and how best to do it
  • The Netherlands "cross-border" judgments in European patent proceedings are famous. In the past a European patent owner could obtain a pan-European cross-border injunction from the Netherlands judges.
  • This list of PCC cases, the parties and rulings, runs from the first cases under the new procedural rules to March 2013.
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  • The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU has suggested that keywords used in online advertisements can infringe trade marks in certain specific circumstances
  • Colin Birss is set to take over as judge of the Patents County Court in London, Managing IP has learned
  • On the eve of its implementation in the national judicial systems (July 31 2000), European Directive 98/44/EC of July 6 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions has led to heated discussions in the Netherlands. Earlier, on October 19 1998, the Dutch government had already requested the ECJ to declare the directive invalid, but no judgment has been rendered with respect to this request yet. Not until June this year rather late was the actual implementation of the directive finally discussed in the Dutch parliament. During these discussions, it turned out that a majority of parliament objected to the implementation of the directive, largely because the directive would give room for the patenting of living organisms. This would be contrary to fundamental ethical choices made in the Netherlands.
  • At the Global Forum on IP in Singapore last month, Starbucks explained how to cut costs, judges proclaimed that only they could keep the law up to speed with technology, and we heard the curious tale of offshoring IP to a bank manager in Curaçao. Which worked fine until his secretary took over.