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  • Few groups escaped the acerbic tongue of Professor Sir Robin Jacob at his inaugural lecture as the Sir Hugh Laddie Chair in IP Law at University College London last week. Taking as his topic “IP Law: Keep Calm and Carry On” Jacob (a former patent and Court of Appeal judge in the UK) criticised (among others) lobbyists, politicians, journalists, Andrew Gowers, Professor Ian Hargreaves and the Court of Justice of the EU.
  • With a few hours to spare in Washington DC last week, I decided to pop into room 2141 of the Rayburn House Office Building to hear the testimony of US Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante to the US House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet. It was enlightening
  • US patent applications were “three to four times” higher than normal in the week before first-to-file came into force on March 16, Acting USPTO Director Teresa Stanek Rea said last week
  • A committee of representatives from the 25 countries that have signed up to the unitary patent has begun to discuss how much to charge IP owners for using the new system
  • With just a week to go before a new tax break for patent owners comes into effect in the UK, data from the country’s IP office suggests it is having little effect on domestic patenting activity
  • Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt has added post-grant patent specialist Kevin Laurence as a partner.
  • Today's round-up of news includes India's first smartphone case, copyright cases over football and headlines, and the opening of the Icann Trademark Clearinghouse
  • The Patents County Court in London has become a competitive venue for all types of IP and for multi-jurisdictional cases. Simon Crompton explains how IP owners should approach cases and how they should select counsel
  • Claire O'Brien and Gordon Harris of Wragge & Co give their advice on focusing your arguments at the PCC
  • Practical advice from Jo Bixby of Davenport Lyons