Thanks to the excellent EPLaw patent blog , the IPKat has learned of a recent EPO decision, T 1423/07 (available from EPOline here ), in whi...
David -
Friday, April 30, 2010
Further developments on double patenting at the EPO
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Friday, April 30, 2010
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Brazil patents to expire 1 year early?
According to this news item , which is in the process of being picked up elsewhere , a Brazilian Court has decided that, contrary to all con...
David -
Friday, April 30, 2010
Brazil patents to expire 1 year early?
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Friday, April 30, 2010
Rating: 5

Breaking News: Google win in Rosetta Stone Adwords case
Google's motion for summary judgment was granted by US District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee of the Eastern District of Virginia (4th Circui...
Annsley Merelle Ward -
Friday, April 30, 2010
Breaking News: Google win in Rosetta Stone Adwords case
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Friday, April 30, 2010
Rating: 5

Friday fantasies
Don't forget to check out the IPKat's side bar for the current list of Forthcoming Events. Newly-added events include this summer...
Jeremy -
Friday, April 30, 2010
Friday fantasies
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Friday, April 30, 2010
Rating: 5

Aussies to drive logos, imagery from ciggie boxes?
Writing from Sydney, Australia, for The Independent , Kathy Marks ("Australia to ban logos on cigarette packets") explains that...
Jeremy -
Friday, April 30, 2010
Aussies to drive logos, imagery from ciggie boxes?
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Friday, April 30, 2010
Rating: 5

Absolution for Absolute as dispute with Absolut settles
An article in The Guardian today, "Absolute Radio settles trademark fight with Absolut vodka", reports on the end of what might...
Jeremy -
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Absolution for Absolute as dispute with Absolut settles
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Rating: 5

Spring pruning for Interflora questions
Way back in November, before the Court of Justice of the European Union had given its ruling in the Google AdWords case, Mr Justice Arnold ...
Jeremy -
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Spring pruning for Interflora questions
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on
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Rating: 5

Microsoft and HTC make love, not mobile war
The mobile phone wars have reached such a level of complication that the IPKat has resorted to drawing diagrams to show who is suing who. ...
Annsley Merelle Ward -
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Microsoft and HTC make love, not mobile war
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Rating: 5

BGH: Google's image search is no copyright infringement
While Google had a bit of bad press in Germany over the last week or so due to it collecting publicly available (!) W-LAN data for its Goog...
Birgit Clark -
Thursday, April 29, 2010
BGH: Google's image search is no copyright infringement
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Rating: 5

IP and European competition law: a new book
Various members of the IPKat's blogging team are attending the launch this evening of a new and welcome publication, Intellectual Prop...
Jeremy -
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
IP and European competition law: a new book
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on
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Rating: 5

Protecting scientific discoveries ... do we?
The IPKat's friend Mark Houghton, all the way from beautiful Bakewell (home of the eponymous pudding ), has been contemplating the re...
Jeremy -
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Protecting scientific discoveries ... do we?
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Rating: 5

Wednesday whimsies
"Passing off or customer confusion?" asks the IPKat's friend Lucy Wimberley ( SABIP ), who had the good fortune to be detain...
Jeremy -
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Wednesday whimsies
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Rating: 5
Time to rescue Lammy's old speech writer?
Press release IP/10/466 , issued from Brussels, Europe [that's for the benefit of our transatlantic readers who may be more familiar wi...
Jeremy -
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Time to rescue Lammy's old speech writer?
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Rating: 5

Today's latest Community trade mark decisions: too hot for non-linguists!
Please help the Kats. There are three fresh appeals against decisions of the OHIM Boards of Appeal concerning Community trade mark applica...
Jeremy -
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Today's latest Community trade mark decisions: too hot for non-linguists!
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on
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Rating: 5

That new WIPO logo
As many of his readers may have noticed , while the Kats were at play yesterday, celebrating World Intellectual Property Day, the World Inte...
Jeremy -
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
That new WIPO logo
Reviewed by Jeremy
on
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Rating: 5

Settlement in Styriagra/Viagra trade mark disupte
Some of our readers may recall the curious trade mark dispute between Mr Mandl, an Austrian pumpkin seed oil producer, and pharmaceutical c...
Birgit Clark -
Monday, April 26, 2010
Settlement in Styriagra/Viagra trade mark disupte
Reviewed by Birgit Clark
on
Monday, April 26, 2010
Rating: 5

Monday miscellany
If you've emailed IPKat Jeremy today and are hoping for a swift response, please be patient: it's World IP Day today and he's a ...
Jeremy -
Monday, April 26, 2010
Monday miscellany
Reviewed by Jeremy
on
Monday, April 26, 2010
Rating: 5

Blawg Review #261
Blawg Review #261 . Today is the tenth World Intellectual Property Day. While you’re reading this, I shall be partying with friends and co...
Jeremy -
Monday, April 26, 2010
Blawg Review #261
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Rating: 5

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