Thursday, 31 July 2008

Monster trade mark infringement case: court reveals its thinking on calculating costs

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The six separate but closely intertwined trade mark infringement actions in Boehringer Ingelheim KG v Swingward Ltd etc commenced in the pr...

Former univ spin-off strikes gold

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Science Business reports that Proximagen Neuroscience plc has agreed a $232 million worldwide licensing deal with Upsher-Smith Laboratories ...
Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Forthcoming IP auction

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The Ocean Tomo Fall Auction & Conference is to he held on 29 and 30 October at the Trump International Hotel and Chicago Cultural Center...
Monday, 28 July 2008

Green IP and patent insurance

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Writing in the excellent Intellectual Property Watch last Friday, Itaru Nitta ( Green Intellectual Property Project, Geneva, Switzerland) de...
Friday, 25 July 2008

India's Copyright Board given royalty-fixing powers

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In a recent decision India's Supreme Court has increased the powers of the Copyright Board , ruling that the Board is entitled not only ...
Thursday, 24 July 2008

NMMU's tech transfer office bears fruit at 14 months

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This week's Tech Transfer E-News reports that the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University ( NMMU ), Port Elizabeth (South Africa), has re...
Wednesday, 23 July 2008

Lost profits of a patent owner's subsidiary: can they be recovered?

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I've just picked up this item on Lexology: it's a note ("Parent company denied recovery for lost profits of subsidiary") b...
Tuesday, 22 July 2008

European Commission undermines copyright assumptions

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According to the European Commission's press release IP/08/1165 last week, the European Commission is ordering 24 European copyright co...

Mindspeed sells off patents

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It looks like that Orange County, Calif, based Mindspeed Technologies has found a new source of revenue stream to supplement its revenue fr...