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John Hintz has joined Rimon as partner in its New York office

Biggest patent offices in work-sharing drive The world's five largest patent offices have revealed a plan to cut patent pendency by increasing work sharing. Jung-Sik Koh, head of the Korean IP Office (KIPO) chaired a meeting held in Jeju, Korea from October 27 to 28. It was attended by the heads of the EPO, JPO, SIPO and USPTO. A vision statement published after the meeting says that the offices aim to: eliminate unnecessary duplication of work among the offices; enhance patent examination efficiency and quality; and guarantee of the stability of international patent rights. To reduce the problem of redundant search and examination work increasing pendency, each of the five offices has committed to lead two foundation projects. These aim to increase harmonisation and enable greater work sharing and are distributed around the offices. The only deadline contained in the statement is that the offices will exchange "detailed proposals" on each project identifying areas of agreement and details of implementation by the end of April next year.

Five Democrats and four Republicans will serve on the subcommittee

EU Council ministers discuss Unitary Patent and UPC, Italy ratifies the UPC Agreement (UPCA), UK government publishes Brexit strategy document and answers questions on its UPCA ratification commitment

A monthly column devoted to IP curiosities and controversies, named in honour of John of Utynam - who received the world’s first recorded patent in 1449

Frederick A Brodie and Nathan R Smith advise parties to be cautious about relying upon injunctive relief provided in contracts administering IP rights

Managing IP included 18 Europeans in its 2010 list of the 50 most influential people in IP. We introduce them here, beginning with Benoît Battistelli, who tells Emma Barraclough about his plans for his time as president of the European Patent Office

Join MIP and Zacco at 2pm BST (3pm CEST) on Thursday June 15 as they explore some of the reasons why companies are increasingly adopting a hybrid IP portfolio management model, both as a means to improve quality and in response to an increasingly uncertain economic outlook

More than 1,000 new gTLDs are set to go live within the next few years, with many already launched. Trade mark owners need to reevaluate enforcement in this new internet ecosystem, argue Brian Winterfeldt and Griffin M Barnett

Our latest update also includes the latest case filing statistics, and an update on how a transatlantic merger could be a UPC opportunity for the US half of the partnership