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  • The latest development in the global patent war between Apple and Samsung took another dramatic turn last month. The International Trade Commission (ITC), set to ban imports of Apple's iPhone 4 for infringing Samsung's patents, was overruled by US Trade Representative Michael Froman, citing concerns about the dangers of holders of standards-essential patents (SEPs) gaining undue leverage over the market and the associated public interests.
  • Declan Hamill, chief of staff and vice president (legal affairs) for Rx&D tells James Nurton why the innovative life sciences industry has concerns about the lack of patent term restoration, utility standards and access to medicines
  • Cynthia Rowden of Bereskin & Parr explains recent legislation that offers better counterfeiting remedies and streamlines registration procedures
  • Matthew Zischka and Colin Ingram of Smart & Biggar analyse decisions on computer-implemented inventions, alongside CIPO’s efforts to strengthen and clarify policy
  • As brand-name producers push for longer data exclusivity and a better appeals process in Canada, Jim Keon, president of the Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association, explains the misconceptions about Canadian regulation to Alli Pyrah
  • The former head of the USPTO says that academic institutions have largely replaced large corporate research centres as a major source of breakthrough innovations, but this raises new challenges to commercialisation
  • 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.