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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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Opponents, supporters of US patent eligibility reform lobby hard in Congress

Senators Chris Coons and Thom Tillis are working to bring the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act to mark-up in the Senate Judiciary Committee

10 April 2024

India in early stages of trade secret protection overhaul

As the country turns its attention to national elections, a recommendation to reshape trade secret protections is before lawmakers

10 April 2024

The SEP landscape faces challenges, says UKIPO’s international policy director

Ben Llewellyn-Jones speaks exclusively to IAM about the UK’s upcoming SEP/FRAND interventions

03 April 2024

India’s sovereign patent fund plans risk driving out innovation

Saturday Opinion: At a time when India is becoming increasingly important in enforcement, a proposed interventionist licensing regime threatens the country’s image as patentee-friendly

30 March 2024

Use this four-step framework to protect AI-assisted inventions in the US

The USPTO’s new guidance for protecting AI-assisted inventions has important implications for in-house patent counsel who need to add (or modify) critical steps into the patenting process

22 March 2024

New USPTO guidelines direct patent examiners on Section 112, obviousness analyses

The memos do not establish new agency policy but instead remind examiners of the law and point to training resources

21 March 2024

Federal Circuit rulings about patent term adjustment that patent prosecutors must know

The court’s recent Chudik and SawStop rulings have critical takeaways that patent prosecutors must grasp to avoid negative outcomes

20 March 2024

India mulls interventionist sovereign patent fund plans

Unpublished government proposals share similarities with the EU’s divisive SEP regulation

20 March 2024

BREAKING: UPC appeal court judge blasts proposed SEP regulation

Speaking at IPBC Europe, Rian Kalden says it is “disturbing” that the European Commission seems to think judges cannot handle FRAND cases

19 March 2024

Inside Italy’s advanced trade secrets enforcement ecosystem

The country has a high infringement claim success rate compared to its peers in Europe

15 March 2024

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