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 |  |  |  | |  |  | | The race is on to gain control of a new technology that has the power to reinvent banking and make transactions and other agreements between parties cheaper, safer and easier to complete |
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 |  |  |  | |  |  | | The UPC could provide those doing business in Europe with an exciting new patent system which allows for simplified, less expensive, and consistent protection and enforcement of patents across a vast geographical area with a population of approximately 420 million, no fewer than 24 official languages and a wide variety of divergent legal systems |
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 |  |  |  | |  |  | | Rumor has it Apple is planning to adopt the OLED technology in its 2017 iPhone. With Apple boasting one billion active iPhone users worldwide in the first quarter of 2016, inclusion in the 2017 iPhone version would guarantee UDC some serious fruit for its labor |
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 | IP Management |  |
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 |  |  |  | |  |  | | Designers are advised to start registering their most commercially valuable designs now, to avoid the uncertainty over the scope and applicability of future unregistered rights |
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 |  |  |  | |  |  | | Are hyperlinks to copyrighted content made available on the internet without the consent of the right holder "communications to the public" and therefore copyright infringements? According to the CJEU, they may be! |
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 |  |  |  | |  |  | | In a battle that likely felt like déjà vu for the parties, Finjan for the second time argued its patents were valid over Sophos's prior art because Sophos failed to produce sufficient evidence of public availability |
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 |  |  |  | |  |  | | A record breaking 41 such companies from 13 European countries applied for this year's awards and the jury has shortlisted seven of them to compete across three categories: healthcare, industrial and agricultural biotechnology |
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 |  |  |  | |  |  | | When people have talked about Unlock the Box, it's mainly been about how the rule would stimulate competition |
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