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  • Anne Wildeng has joined Bryn Aarflot in Oslo from rival Zacco as a partner. She became head of legal/trade marks at the firm last month.
  • I have just left Japan, after spending a week with AIPLA’s IP in Japan Committee. That committee was one of the originators – if not the first – to travel for meetings with foreign counterparts and government officials.
  • In a short and unanimous opinion in Bowman v Monsanto, the US Supreme Court has upheld the Federal Circuit’s ruling that an Indiana farmer may not reproduce patented seeds without the patent holder’s permission
  • With the Madrid Protocol now covering more than two-thirds of the world’s population, and further expansion expected, how can it be improved to benefit trade mark owners and applicants?
  • This blog post is something of a mea culpa. It stems from comments made by Brad Smith of Microsoft at last month’s Fordham IP Conference in New York.
  • Following the retirement of INTA executive director Alan Drewsen this summer, Spanish-born Etienne Sanz de Acedo will take over as chief executive officer from July 1. At present Sanz de Acedo is head of communications for the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM). He spoke to Alli Pyrah about his goals for INTA and the challenges that lie ahead.
  • The validity of hundreds of thousands of business method patents is uncertain after the Federal Circuit narrowly upheld the district court’s decision in CLS v Alice that four patents are invalid under Section 101
  • Do patent pools ultimately benefit consumers or the companies that agree to package their IP rights as part of a technical standard? That’s a question antitrust officials must grapple with, but it’s one that raises questions of both theory and practice.
  • The most radical proposal in the UK government’s IP bill, published this week, is the introduction of criminal penalties for infringing registered designs. Will that deter copiers or constrain designers?
  • The fast-changing digital universe has prompted the US Congress to launch a review of copyright law that will feature a series of hearings and could trigger a years-long battle to rewrite the Copyright Act