• Feroz Ali & Sudarsan Rajagopal: How India rejects bad patents

    In 2005, India made some remarkable amendments to the Indian Patents Act of 1970, to keep medicines affordable in the country. Since then we have faced a significant blowback not just from the global pharmaceutical industry but also from developed world including from the US and the European …

     
  • Qualcomm Elevates EVP Cristiano R. Amon To President

    While Mr. Amon spent 22 years at Qualcomm holding a broad range of positions, it remains to be seen how effectively he’ll replace the departing President whose vast patent law experience allowed him to personally oversee the company’s many legal disputes across the world, including the high-profile …

     
  • Aristocrat takes legal action as former erotic film star promotes champagne brand founded by his …

    Aristocrat takes legal action as former erotic film star promotes champagne brand founded by his forefathers … a local newspaper in the Champagne region, that the objection to the use of Ms Morgane’s name in conjunction with that of the de Cazanove family was based on intellectual property law.

     
  • Lessons in Trademarking Trade Dress: Apple vs. Samsung

    The long-running legal battle between Samsung and Apple over the shape of their respective smart phones provides some interesting lessons … Apple sought and obtained several design patents including a patent covering a black rectangular front face with rounded corners, a patent covering a …

     
  • 2018 promises to be rocky time in IP world

    If you don’t have any international protection issues on your 2018 to-do list, you aren’t alone. This past year has seen tremendous upheavals in domestic intellectual property law.From the elimination of disparaging (and most likely scandalous) mark registration refusals (Tam) to the rewrite of the rules …

     
  • Future for Sandoz’s Generic Glaucoma Drug May Be Less Cloudy

    A veteran reporter, Elfin has been covering the hottest legal and regulatory issues in the pharmaceutical/medical device industries since 1999, with a particular focus on Hatch-Waxman Act patent litigation and antitrust and constitutional law issues affecting the drug and device industries. VIEW FULL …

     
  • PTO Litigation Report – December 27, 2017

    Listed below are all new filings before PTAB of petitions for inter partes review (IPR) and covered business methods review (CBM). Also listed are any newly-posted requests for ex parte reexamination at the USPTO. This listing is current as of 11 AM on Wednesday, December 27, 2017.

     
  • Volume 13 Issue 1

    Trade mark protection and EU state aid law: European Commission rules that assignment of Danish trade mark ‘Lurpak’ amounts to state aid · Michele Giannino. Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1 January 2018, Pages 6–7, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpx178. Abstract.

     
  • Patent Law Clerk

    New! Hiring a Patent Law Clerk in Ottawa, must have worked in a law firm dealing with Intellectual PropertyYour New CompanyThe…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

     
  • EU Commission Hid Yet Another Report That Showed Its Assumptions About Copyright Were Wrong

    EU Commission Hid Yet Another Report That Showed Its Assumptions About Copyright Were Wrong  Techdirt Full coverage