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  • Supreme Court of Canada invalidated Pfizer’s patent on the active ingredient in Viagra
  • Last month's briefing reported that observers had good reason to fear that the EU's proposal for a unitary patent system including a unified patent court would be rushed through under the current Danish EU presidency. However, things have now changed, and the EU patent court is on hold, once again.
  • “In the Navy you don’t learn from textbooks, you have sea stories instead,” Leonard A. Lauder told attendees in his keynote speech at the opening ceremony yesterday. The Chairman Emeritus of The Estée Lauder Companies, Lauder joined his parents’ company in 1958 when he left the US Navy. “I looked pretty sexy in that Navy uniform,” he remembered.
  • A European Commission official this week urged industry “to find a balanced solution” to the questions arising from the licensing of standard-essential patents
  • A patent holding company representing the heirs of a dead Dutch programmer is suing Facebook over its “like” button and other features
  • USPTO deputy director Michelle Lee spoke of the agency’s latest initiatives to improve the US patent system during a keynote speech at Managing IP’s US Patent Forum 2014
  • The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) is shifting its policy focus from fast-for-all examinations to customer-tailored high quality examinations. Under the proposed system (scheduled to start on October 1 2008), KIPO will allow applicants to choose one of three examination tracks: accelerated, normal, or delayed examination.
  • In 2009, Vietnam will make some key amendments to its IP Law. Some of the amendments are aimed at correcting inconsistencies in the law, while others are designed to bring articles into compliance with Vietnam's international commitments on IP protection. Highlights include:
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    The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has just issued Memorandum Circular No. 2019-024 entitled Amendments to the Rules and Regulations on Inter Partes Proceedings, which will take effect on February 15 2020. Its objective is to provide speedy, quality and effective legal remedies to resolve IP disputes. The major amendments are as follows: