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  • Members of the upper house in Australia’s parliament have called for the government to publish the final text of the trans-Pacific free trade deal before it is signed off by the cabinet
  • AIPLA has written to Congress saying it cannot support the Innovation Act because of objections to several provisions within the bill and the speed with which the legislation has moved forward.
  • Universities such as Caltech are often held up as examples of good NPEs in discussions about intellectual property. What sorts of challenges do they face?
  • The international coffee shop chain Starbucks has failed to stop a US coffee roasting company from selling a product called Charbucks. Starbucks sued the New Hampshire-based Wolfe's Borough Coffee, which trades as Black Bear Micro Roastery, more than a decade ago. In November the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York backed a lower court that had declined to ban the defendant from selling Charbucks coffee.
  • Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn has grown its IP litigation group with three new partners. Jamal Edwards joins the firm's Detroit office. He is a former partner of Kirkland & Ellis, a former regional counsel for the IBM Corporation in Chicago and a former executive with Equifax.
  • One of the aims of this column is to be provocative, so here goes: there are good reasons to think that the continual and impressive growth in patent filing reported in the latest IP5 report will not continue, and that before long the number of applications will decline.
  • Google is at the heart of the debate on patent reform in the United States. Last month, James Nurton spoke to the company’s deputy general counsel, patents and patent litigation, Allen Lo, about how its patent strategy has evolved, why it believes there is a troll problem, and what legal changes are needed
  • Four candidates will run for the Director General post at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), including the current Director General, Australian Francis Gurry.
  • The Supreme Court has confirmed it will hear oral arguments in Alice’s dispute with CLS Bank, in a case that will rule on the extent to which software and business methods are patentable.
  • Foreign businesses that want to transfer their technology to China must weigh the costs and benefits of doing so. While the rules can be onerous, there still can be upsides, says Troy Rice