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New IAM legal research tool aids busy patent professionals in the global licensing landscape

“Primary Sources” can fast-forward your queries about jurisdictions around the world

AI is posing many challenges but we are finding ways to overcome them, says US Copyright Office Director

Shira Perlmutter, one of this year’s IP Hall of Fame inductees, speaks to IAM about her career and the big issues currently facing the copyright world

Dutch businesses increasingly proactive about trade secret misappropriation

The volume of cases appears to be picking up pace in the Netherlands with key rulings offering guidance on confidentiality clubs and patenting of misappropriated trade secrets

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The ever-expanding extraterritorial reach of patents

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

For the most part, patent litigation is a domestic issue. Although today there is much talk of international patent litigation, in practice the international aspect is often confined to organising litigation in various countries.

29 January 2008

Supplementary protection certificates: extending protection for medicinal and plant products

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

As a result of Romania’s accession to the European Union on January 1 2007, new regulations on the protection of industrial property came into force.

29 January 2008

Inclusion on Priority Watch List sets IP enforcement alarm bells ringing

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

Thailand is well known as a country where counterfeit products can be bought easily from street vendors. A single visit to Bangkok usually presents shoppers with endless opportunities to buy goods such as fake handbags, CDs and DVDs.

29 January 2008

It’s time to take on economists who criticise patents

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

“Every year, the US economy suffers a consumer welfare loss of an estimated $25.5 billion because current patent law deters productive research, imposes administrative costs, and encourages excessive litigation,”

29 January 2008

Reviewing the scope of patent law: key decisions from the UK courts

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

The past 12 months have seen a number of important decisions relating to UK patent law. These decisions span a variety of issues, including

29 January 2008

Increasing flexibility and attractiveness: the ratification of the London Agreement

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

The European Patent Convention, signed in Munich on October 5 1973, provided a legal framework for the granting of European patents through a centralised delivery procedure to the European Patent Office. A single patent application in one language may be filed with the European Patent Office, which then examines the patentability of the invention.

29 January 2008

Amending the Patents Act: major changes on the horizon

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

Until 1995, the Netherlands Patent Office (NPO) granted patents only after substantive examination, in which a technical examiner assessed whether the invention claimed in the application was new and involved an inventive step.

29 January 2008

Confronting the impact of technology

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

The digital age continues to pose a considerable challenge to IP rights in New Zealand. The primary pieces of legislation making up New Zealand’s IP landscape remain the Copyright Act 1994, the Patents Act 1953 and the Trademarks Act 2002.

29 January 2008

International integration triggers IP development

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

During a visit to Vietnam in August 2007 Robert Zoellick, chairman of the World Bank, remarked that “Vietnam is the success story of development”. Since Bill Clinton’s visit in November 2000, which for many heralded the openingup of Vietnam to business after decades of post-war isolation, this has been the country’s aim.

29 January 2008

The impact of changing legislation on IP owners

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

One thing is certain in the world of intellectual asset and IP management – the ground is constantly shifting. As US IP owners get to grips with significant legal changes, changes in the Australian marketplace are also having an impact – both positive and negative – on the rights of IP owners.

29 January 2008

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