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Sweden and China make new Patent Prosecution Highway agreement
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on October 9, 2014
Effective 1 July 2014 the PRV (Sweden) and the SIPO (China) started a new PPH-agreement thus offering especially our Swedish clients a new way of speeding up examination of patent applications in China by requesting that the SIPO use the search and examination results of the PRV in treating an analogous patent application. The PPH...
Copyright in relation to e-books
By AWA | Posted on September 26, 2014
The copyright protection of authors is being increasingly challenged by the continuing digitalization of the book market. The emergence of the e-book has caused a very IP-relevant question: Is the consumer allowed to re-sell the e-book he purchased? When it comes to physical works such as hard copy books, European copyright legislation clearly states that...
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Tags: copyright, e-books
Revisions to the Korean Trademark Act
By AWA | Posted on September 19, 2014
The aim of the revisions, which were implemented in June this year, is to reinforce the position of trademark owners, which the following examples will indicate. The article handling the protection of well known trademarks has become clearer. Now it is clearly stated in the Trademark Act that applications for trademarks which are likely to...
Tags: Japan, Korea, trademarks
Open innovation – time to dispense with intellectual property rights?
By Cecilia Svantesson | Posted on September 12, 2014
First of all: open innovation – what exactly is it? It would be almost wrong to discuss open innovation(OI) without mentioning the man who coined the term. Professor Henry Chesbrough (Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley) created the term open innovation back in 2003 to describe the conscious input and output of knowledge...
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Tags: open innovation, open ip
The 2014 World Cup from an IP perspective
By Love Koči | Posted on September 2, 2014
Football enthusiasts all over the world indulged in the fantastic spectacle of the World Cup in Brazil this summer, enjoying a large goal average (2.88 goals per group stage game), witnessing flabbergasting results (e.g. Spain vs. the Netherlands 1-5 and Brazil vs. Germany 1-7) and reading everything about the headline-making profiles such as Neymar, Suarez,...
Tags: Football, patents, world cup 2014
An unknown exception error at the EPO
By Anders Heebøll-Nielsen | Posted on August 4, 2014
We recently blogged about how the EPO has introduced the concept of small entities for obtaining fee reductions in procedures before the EPO. The new procedure can create a peculiar error that at least I did not foresee. The EPO Form 1001E for request for grant of a European patent contains a field, Item 5,...
Blog entry #2 on new Rule 6 EPC
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on July 28, 2014
Will some applications be left with no Rule 6 EPC applicable following its amendment? Following my previous blog entry on the amended Rule 6 EPC, I have been made aware of a curiosity in the transitional provisions of the new Rule 6 EPC. Namely, the transitional provisions may, in principle, be interpreted as implying that...
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Danish law can be applicable to infringing sales from UK websites
By AWA | Posted on July 8, 2014
The Danish Maritime and Commercial Court has recently rendered a decision in a case regarding sale of infringing furniture designs from two British websites. The decision is interesting for practitioners as it explains which exact elements are added substantial weight, when defining which law is applicable to an online infringement. When deciding whether sale of...
Tags: Denmark, design protection, UK
Decision by the USPTO puts the spotlight on the “real party in interest”
By Joacim Lydén | Posted on July 1, 2014
One of the ways that companies in patent dense industries, such as consumer electronics, try to fend off claims from patent holders is by requesting assistance from patent risk management firms. Patent risk management firms generally assist their clients by acquiring patents, tracking litigation outcome, or by acting to remove questionable patents from the landscape....
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Tags: patent risk management, USA, USPTO
Important judgement on business method patent in the United States
By Joacim Lydén | Posted on June 24, 2014
On 20 June 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down an important decision, Alice v. CLS Bank, clarifying the extent to which business methods can be patented. The earlier stages of the proceedings have been well covered in the media as this is one of relatively few times the Supreme Court has interpreted 35 U.S.C....
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