Week’s news headlines – Feb. 10th 2017
Patents A Weak Patent System Increases Inequality, Protects Incumbent Monopolies The weakening of patent rights is coupled with a weakening of antitrust enforcement that limits control of market leaders. This combination of weaker patent rights for market entrants and limited antitrust enforcement has uniformly benefited large technology corporations and has served to distort market efficiencies. […]
Week’s news headlines – Feb. 3rd 2017
Copyright Paul McCartney fights Sony/ATV over copyright termination notices to reclaim Beatles copyrights One of the more interesting copyright stories which have played out over the past few decades took an interesting turn when British singer-songwriter Paul McCartney filed a complaint for declaratory judgement of no breach of contract in the U.S. District Court for […]
Updates have come to Brazil’s Industrial Property Journal
Updates have come to Brazil’s Industrial Property Journal. The journal, published in Portuguese, is now divided into more sections (Contracts, Industrial Design, Geographical Indication, Trademarks, Patents, Computer Programs, Topography of Circuits and Official Notices). The new publications – with the exception of those related to Trademarks – had their layout modified, making the information easier […]
Week’s news headlines – Jan. 27th 2017
Antitrust Mallinckrodt to pay $100m in antitrust case over infant drug The FTC accused Mallinckrodt of having violated antitrust laws when it acquired the rights to a drug that threatened its monopoly in the US market for the infant drug adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). http://www.lifesciencesipreview.com/news/mallinckrodt-to-pay-100m-in-antitrust-case-over-infant-drug-1983 Patents Teva sues Mylan over Copaxone patent infringement Teva has […]
Week´s news headlines – Oct. 14th 2016
Intellectual property rights: In copy-and-paste age plagiarism and piracy not serious issues Legislation for author versus publisher relationships may have improved, but there is still the perception that authors get little royalty from books. Those huge advances are extremely rare. Read more at: http://www.financialexpress.com/fe- Turkey Introduces Intellectual Property Rules For Scientific And Technological Research […]
Week´s news headlines – jun. 24th 2016
Impact of UK’s Brexit for Intellectual Property Rights A British vote to leave the European Union (EU)—the Brexit referendum issue scheduled for a vote on June 23, 2016 — would have a significant effect on intellectual property right-holders, such as manufacturers doing business in Europe, as Intellectual Property rights are governed by numerous EU regulations. Bearing in mind […]
Week´s news headlines – may. 6th 2016
Canada: The Potential Impact Of Brown v. Canada On Ownership Of Intellectual Property By Employers Most employers, especially those who are active in research and development, as a matter of practice have employees sign agreements that specify the obligations of the employee to disclose inventions to the employer and ensure that intellectual property developed by […]
Federal appeals court rules software may not be patentable
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Friday ruled that an abstract idea is not patentable simply because it is tied to a computer system. Analysts say the ruling could have severe implications on software and business method patents. In the case, CLS Bank v. Alice Corporation, plaintiff Alice’s four software patents, […]