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Yahoo, top patent practitioner firms, Fitbit, Jawbone, PTAB, Canada, Led Zeppelin, Eastern District of Texas – the week in IP

The future of Yahoo’s patent portfolio after its Verizon deal, an appeal of the Stairway to Heaven copyright case, the law firms with the most patent practitioners, an ITC ruling invalidating Fitbit patents, an interview with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s chief judge, a call for Canada to have a national IP strategy, and a “highly unusual” Eastern District of Texas case were in the intellectual property headlines in the past week

July 26 2016

How ASEAN countries rank for IP protection

In the latest of our series of articles on ASEAN, Natalie Rahhal discovers that ratings for many countries in the region have improved, but important differences remain

July 25 2016

ASEAN: a trade mark owner’s view

The ASEAN region presents brands and their corporate counsel with challenges as diverse as the region itself, as Russ Jacobs of Starbucks tells Natalie Rahhal

July 25 2016

USPTO issues memorandum in response to CellzDirect and Sequenom

The USPTO tells examiners the Federal Circuit’s CellzDirect ruling “highlighted several important points” but says its subject matter eligibility guidance and training examples are already consistent with it

July 21 2016

Guest post: Keeping the record straight

Anna Popova, director of assignments at Brandstock, discusses the long and winding road of recordals

Managing IP Correspondent, July 21 2016

Catching up with Canada: recent trade mark news

Canada is continuing to amend its intellectual property acts to allow it to join international treaties, plain packaging legislation is being considered, and the Quebec government has proposed legislation to require businesses to use both French and English versions of their outside signage

July 21 2016

Catching up with Canada: recent patent news

A dismissal of a suit against Pfizer indicating consumers cannot be compensated for expenditures on invalidated patents, the NAFTA arbitration hearing of Eli Lilly’s complaint against the government, IP agents getting confidentiality privilege, the Federal Court awarding Janssen nearly C$20 million, and Brexit putting the brakes on CETA were among recent Canadian patent stories

July 21 2016

Federal Circuit keeps 180 days’ exclusion time in patent dance

The Federal Circuit has provided some guidance on the issue of 180 days’ notice of launch in a recent biosimilars ruling, in Amgen v Apotex, but practitioners say there will be a lot more litigation before the patent dance is fully clarified

July 20 2016

GAO releases two patent reports

The Government Accountability Office has released two reports: one suggesting the USPTO should define quality, reassess incentives and improve clarity; the other suggesting the USPTO should strengthen search capabilities and better monitor examiners' work

July 20 2016

The conflict between social media and copyright

Sharing is an inherent feature of social media. But, asks Alice Gatignol, is there any way this can be reconciled with established principles of copyright protection?

Managing IP Correspondent, July 20 2016

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