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Africa IP news roundup

The TRIPs Protocol gets its 65th member, a non-violation complaint under TRIPs, the ARIPO Declaration on PAIPO, the Banjul Protocol gains a new member and OAPI accedes to the Singapore Treaty – Kingsley Egbuonu provides a summary of IP news relating to African countries

Kingsley Egbuonu, February 02 2016

Immoral marks, New York Times, Cuozzo, PTAB, Microsoft – the week in IP

The DOJ saying the Slants ruling was so broad it goes beyond covering only disparaging marks, The New York Times being criticised for filing a copyright case, the reason Cuozzo may not be successful at the Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit vacating a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision, and a Microsoft and Olio agreement over wearable patents were in the intellectual property headlines in the past week

January 29 2016

A year of change in Europe

Regular readers will know that the EU Unitary Patent and UPC are set to transform patent practice in Europe. But do you also know about the reforms being planned or discussed for trade marks, designs, geographical indications, copyright, trade secrets and enforcement in the EU?

January 29 2016

Last chance to take part in the Global IP Index

The law firm Taylor Wessing is working on its fifth Global Intellectual Property Index, and the deadline to take part is Friday February 5

January 29 2016

Managing IP Global Awards 2016 shortlists

Managing IP's annual Global Awards Dinner - held this year on March 10 at The Savoy in London - recognises the outstanding firms of the past year in Asia-Pacific, Europe and Latin America. Ahead of the awards announcement, we publish the shortlists for each category

Managing IP Correspondent, January 29 2016

Amendments recommended to US Copyright Act statutory damages provisions

The US Department of Commerce has issued a report recommending amendments to copyright law that it believes would provide more guidance and greater flexibility to courts in awarding statutory damages

January 28 2016

Unitary Patent & UPC

Unitary Patent and UPC: a progress report (January 2016)

In our latest Unitary Patent and UPC roundup: Finland ratifies the UPC Agreement and its Protocol, UK gears up for ratification with a little legal complexity, UPC judicial posts open to all, and improvements to UPC IT system

Kingsley Egbuonu, January 28 2016

Don’t fret over threats of proceedings for IP infringement

Correspondents in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US review the law and recent developments on threats of proceedings for IP infringement that are groundless or may interfere with business activity

Managing IP Correspondent, January 28 2016

CJEU trade mark decisions update 2015

The Court of Justice of the European Union issued 12 judgments on cases primarily involving trade marks in 2015. Alice Stagg summarises the most interesting of them

Managing IP Correspondent, January 28 2016

Average of 11 Alice decisions each month in US federal courts

There have been about 11 Section 101 decision per month in US federal courts and the overall success rate has been 72.1% since the Supreme Court’s Alice v CLS Bank decision, according to an analysis by Fenwick & West’s Robert Sachs

January 27 2016

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