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  • Many readers will be familiar with the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, identified by Sherlock Holmes in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story “Silver Blaze”. Puzzled, the Scotland Yard detective says: “The dog did nothing in the night-time.” Holmes replies: “That was the curious incident.”
  • Know your enemy. Did Australian company record company Liberation Music bear this advice in mind when it requested that YouTube block the video of a lecture titled “Open” given by Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig?
  • Focus on the type of patent, rather than the identity of the litigant: that was the conclusion of a US Government Accountability Office report into patent litigation and patent quality published this week
  • The Patents County Court in London is to be renamed the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court from October 1, under a statutory instrument laid before parliament earlier this month.
  • The UK government has ditched plans to allow IP owners to pay for a 90-day patent processing service following a consultation with IP Office users
  • Musician Victoria Aitken and actor Kevin Spacey have made bold, but contrasting, contributions to the copyright debate. Lawyers would do well to listen to both of them
  • Margot Fröhlinger, principal director for patent law and international affairs at the EPO, will give a keynote address at Managing IP’s European Patent Reforum Forum in Munich next month
  • Japanese watchmaker Seiko has won a UDRP case concerning 138 domain names registered by 106 respondents
  • During the last few years I have litigated a number of lawsuits that included significant battles over whether confidential client communications with non-attorney patent professionals – called patent agents in the US, or patent attorneys overseas – were privileged
  • Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche has ended its attempt to secure patent protection for breast cancer drug Herceptin in India