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Latest developments present new challenges

Featured in IP Value 2008 - An international guide for the boardroom

Over the last 18 months major developments have taken place in Lithuanian IP law, resulting from both new legislation and court decisions.

29 January 2008

Managing intellectual property when regulators rule

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It’s merger and acquisition (M&A) season: do you know where your intellectual property is? For the nearly 32,000 companies that have helped 2007 to be a record year for M&A activity, the answer should be yes. The federal regulators are watching.

29 January 2008

Recent trends in patent enforcement

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Pakistan has a large, growing pharmaceutical industry and generic manufacturing is on the rise. As a result, there have been a number of major infringements of patented processes for pharmaceuticals, as well as patented compounds and compositions by local generic manufacturers, which import the generic drugs or their active ingredients from China, Brazil and India and then formulate and/or repackage the drugs for sale in Pakistan.

29 January 2008

Patent enforcement: licensing and litigation considerations

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The value of owning patents continues to grow in the United States. As Alan Greenspan recently observed, “The economic product of the United States has become predominantly conceptual”.

29 January 2008

The Microsoft decision: the evolution of compulsory licensing in the European Union

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The smoke has cleared after the nearly decade-long battle between Microsoft and the European Commission, and competition practitioners and IP specialists alike are piecing through the decision to determine whether the boundaries between competition law and intellectual property have moved.

29 January 2008

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