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New IAM legal research tool aids busy patent professionals in the global licensing landscape
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
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
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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Three alternatives to the USPTO’s terminal disclaimer proposal

The agency’s proposal harshly penalises patent holders, but these potential modifications could limit its one-sided impact while still addressing the USPTO’s stated concerns

11 June 2024

How the UPC reshaped global enforcement strategies in its first year

Everything you need to know about year one of Europe's new patent system

05 June 2024

Europe’s communications technology leadership at stake 

Saturday Opinion: Nokia’s Chief Licensing Officer Mobile Devices Susanna Martikainen says it is not too late to make crucial changes to the SEP regulation to limit adverse consequences

01 June 2024

Federal Circuit creates patent holder headache in design patent obviousness ruling

Chief IP counsel must brace for the impact as the precedential LKQ Corp ruling might do to design patents what Alice did to utility patents, some practitioners warn

29 May 2024

Keeping a finger on the trade secrets pulse

Loek Steffanie, vice chair of the AIPPI’s trade secrets committee, outlines the key steps to develop an IP strategy where “all horses” are in the race

29 May 2024

UPC to get its 18th member state, but other would-be joiners remain at a standstill

With Romania next in line, IAM has investigated whether progress is being made in any of the other countries that have signed up but remain in limbo

23 May 2024

USPTO patent examiner impartiality in public eye

A Reddit post on a patent examiner forum stirs discussion about the fairness and impartiality of USPTO employees whose personal beliefs must remain separate from the patent examination process

22 May 2024

Ericsson wins largest-ever Indian patent litigation damages award in SEP dispute against Lava

The Delhi High Court has highlighted the importance of meaningful FRAND negotiations in its ruling that Indian smartphone brand Lava could not use the doctrine-of-exhaustion defence. Now that Lava has appealed and the court has set up a confidentiality club, the patent community is watching keenly to see how this dispute will play out.

22 May 2024

USPTO official discusses motives behind AI-assisted inventorship guidelines

Christian “Chris” Hannon of the USPTO Office of Policy and International Affairs discussed the policy document at the AIPLA Spring Meeting in Austin

21 May 2024

USPTO rule proposal risks harming continuation application strategies

Saturday Opinion: Patent challengers would see a huge benefit and major decrease in costs, but the opposite could be said of innovators 

18 May 2024

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