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Letter from AmeriKat I: Copyright -- t...
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Last week the AmeriKat could be seen rushing all over the city
attending hearings, running errands, moving a bed across town or just
trying to get to a variety of appointments all on time. In fact you may
have been one of the unsuspecting shoppers on Oxford Street yesterday
whom she mowed down while racing to her fur appointment. The distances... more »
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Letter from AmeriKat II: Bits and Pieces
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• Microsoft’s Trade Secrets Case - Microsoft settled a lawsuit filed
earlier this year in Washington against a former employee that it had
charged with fraud, misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of
contract. Miki Mullor had applied for a job at Microsoft in 2005,
stating that he had been employed by Ancora as its CEO, a company that... more »
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Friday fantasies
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Have you checked the IPKat's list of Forthcoming Events? There's plenty
coming up, as you can see from the side-bar on the IPKat's front page.
It gets a bit quiet over Christmas, but January's only just around the
corner.
Are you IP-savvy, as fit as a fiddle and always carry an umbrella in
case it rains? If so, the United Kingdom's IPO has a job for you as... more »
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"Would you care for a glass of CANNABI...
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Drink and drugs were the main preoccupation of some of Europe's finest
legal brains this morning, when the Court of First Instance rendered
its decision in Case T‑234/06, Giampietro Torresan v Office for
Harmonisation in the Internal Market, Klosterbrauerei Weissenohe GmbH &
Co. KG, a decision which some of the IPKat's readers may feel to have... more »
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The Digital Economy Bill - will it com...
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Nick McDonald of Browne Jacobson has written to the IPKat with the
following:
"Her Majesty in yesterday's Queen's Speech said the following: "My
Government will introduce a Bill to ensure communications
infrastructure that is fit for the digital age, supports future
economic growth, delivers competitive communications and enhances... more »
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Internet-hosted prior art and proof of...
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In a recent hearing concerning a UK patent application, Ranger Services
Ltd's application, BL O/362/09, 17 November 2009, Hearing Officer
Lawrence Cullen was faced with a question relating to the status of
cited prior art which had been obtained from an internet archive.
Rejecting the application before him, which was for a system of using... more »
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IP rights "not the driver" for vegetab...
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While most felines have little affection for vegetation, the IPKat is
something of an exception. He has just been perusing "Patents and
Vegetable Crop Diversity", a US research paper by Paul J. Heald (Allen
Post Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law) and his
colleague Susannah Chapman of the same university's Department of... more »
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R'n'D: the biggest spenders
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The 2009 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard gives some interesting
facts and figures on the biggest spenders on research & development -
R&D that will, hopefully, also lead to some IP.
From the press release:
Worldwide corporate R&D investment increased by 6.9% in 2008, in spite
of the economic crisis. With an 8.1% increase, the R&D investment... more »
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Have you ever seen two less likely all...
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Although he is generally reluctant to criticise individual IP rights
owners for seeking to protect their market position, and equally
reluctant to criticise those members of the IP professions who
represent them, there are times when the temptation to do so becomes
very great.
One such occasion when the temptation became fairly strong was today,... more »
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Leo v Sandoz - follow the instructions...
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According to UK and European patent law, an invention in a patent claim
is not new if what is claimed has been made available to the public
before the priority date of the application. There may, for example, be
a clear statement in a prior published document that describes a
chemical compound and how to make it, which would make a claim to that... more »
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