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Winning patent holder General Access Solutions proved infringement of 5G patents and its lawyer warns of massive implications for other wireless carriers and base station suppliers
A group of senior European judges has issued what is termed the Second Venice Resolution, which suggests ways in which the European Patent Court, constituted under the proposed European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA), should function. The…
08 November 2006
It has taken just two and a half years for the internet to double in size, according to a report produced by San Francisco-based Netcraft released at the beginning of this month. The company claims that there were 100 million websites active on the…
07 November 2006
The UK Patent Office has responded to the Court of Appeals’ decision in the combined Aerotel Ltd v Telco Holdings Ltd (and others) and Macrossan’s Application [2006] EWCA Civ 1371 case (see below, "UK court confirms software status quo and asks…
06 November 2006
There is an interesting article dated 3rd November on the excellent Patentbarista blogsite looking at how the forthcoming Congressional elections may affect the pharmaceutical industry in the United States. Traditionally, the article points out, big…
06 November 2006
Ocean Tomo has now issued a press release providing details of the IP auction it held in New York at the end of October. Contrary to early reports, the final figure raised actually exceeded US$23 million and more deals are expected to be finalised…
04 November 2006
Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place; but what is Novartis supposed to do about its current problems over patents relating to its cancer treatment Glivec (Gleevec) in India? As the company must have expected, it is now facing a…
04 November 2006
Earlier this week Sir Nicholas Stern delivered his long awaited report on the economic impact of global warming. Sir Nicholas was asked to undertake his research by the United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown in July 2005. He was…
02 November 2006
Anyone watching stock markets recently will have noticed that despite overall gains, the pharmaceutical sector has not been performing. Not surprisingly, it is a combination of drugs coming off patent and a lack of a products in the pipeline that…
01 November 2006
In what is a major blow to the campaign against the European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) on the grounds that it will make it easier to introduce software patents into Europe, veteran campaigner Florian Mueller has announced that he is…
30 October 2006
In Scotland, it seems, technology businesses are being advised not to bother with intellectual property protection, but to concentrate instead on sales and marketing. If the report I read in today’s Sunday Herald is to be believed, eminent Scottish…
29 October 2006
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