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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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IP owners reap benefits of innovative protection measures

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

This chapter looks at recent developments regarding IP rights and protection, and analyses the ongoing battle against piracy and some recent IP cases heard by the Malaysian courts.

29 January 2008

Implementing the EU IP Rights Enforcement Directive: an ongoing challenge

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

On April 29 2004 the European Parliament and the European Council adopted the EU IP Rights Enforcement Directive (2004/48/EC).

29 January 2008

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is Europe about to shoot itself in the foot again?

I was in Brussels on Wednesday, attending a very interesting conference on innovation hosted by consultancy firm Altran. The main theme of the day was innovation in Europe in light of the 7th Programme on Research and Technological Development (FP7)…

08 February 2007

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