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Coca-Cola has accused Pepsi of infringing its contour bottle trade mark in a case that will test the boundaries of 3D trade mark law in Australia

The UK Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) is to replace retiring chief executive Mick Ralph with Lee Davies from the Institute for Learning. Ralph, who was with the CIPA for almost 40 years, will step down in March. Davies had been at the Institute for Learning, an independent body dedicated to the development of teachers and trainers in the education sector, for seven years, serving most recently as its deputy chief executive.

The best female lawyers from across the continent congregated at Essex House in New York last night to celebrate Euromoney Legal Media Group’s third annual Americas Women in Business Law Awards

In the recent Festo decision, the Federal Circuit unveiled a new approach to analyzing the doctrine of equivalents and the companion doctrine of prosecution history estoppel. In light of this new approach, Allen R Jensen and Stacy D Lewis provide some guidelines for patentees

Inspired by the controversy over King.com’s application for the trade mark Candy, Trademarkville is a new video game which parodies IP disputes. Are these events part of an independent developer backlash against IP?

The shortlisted firms for Managing IP's 2013 North America Awards have been announced. The awards ceremony will take place in Washington, DC on March 19

• US: Microsoft issued 10,000th patent Microsoft received its 10,000th US patent last month, a milestone the company said highlights its goal of obtaining enough patents to maximise the value of its R&D efforts, while still focussing on patent quality over quantity. Addressing the considerably higher number of patents owned by competitor IBM, Microsoft's chief patent counsel Bart Eppenauer said: "We really focus on trying to achieve the right balance. What matters is that our portfolio remains strategically in line with our business model." Last month, IBM became the first company to be issued more than 4,000 US patents in one year, surpassing the total number of patents earned by Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Apple, EMC, Accenture and Google combined.

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Managing IP’s analysis of data from Docket Navigator reveals the petitioners, patent owners, law firms and attorneys that were busiest for PTAB filings in March

US small businesses could receive federal grants and loans to assist them in registering and enforcing patents abroad, government officials said at a USPTO public forum Thursday