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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
There is an organisation that seeks to represent European patent lawyers, or at least those that handle litigation: the European Patent Lawyers Association. I have had a quick look at the membership section on the website and certainly in the UK…
15 October 2006
The European Parliament has approved further Commission participation in discussions over the European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA). In a vote yesterday, MEPs broadly supported the points laid out in a resolution tabled by representatives from…
13 October 2006
IAM reporter Liz Rutherford-Johnson attended an afternoon seminar at the London offices of law firm Linklaters, entitled: “Chinese Opportunity: Successful Business Development in China”. Speakers were Ian Harvey of the Intellectual Property…
13 October 2006
It has been a pretty decent few days for Baker & McKenzie’s London-based trademark practice. First of all, it helped clients L'Oréal and Lancôme in their successful High Court case against a group of companies selling and distributing look-alike and…
12 October 2006
This week the AIPPI has been holding its bi-annual World Congress in Gothenburg, a fine city on Sweden's west coast. A reported 1,500 delegates have been debating a range of subjects while, as is usual, around the edges of the conference more…
11 October 2006
There is much discussion all over the place today concerning Google’s announcement that it is to purchase video-sharing site YouTube. In spending well over US$1.5 billion on a company that does not own the copyright on the material it makes…
10 October 2006
Here’s a report from Bloomberg about potential EU action at the WTO against the Chinese for failing to protect the interests of European IP owners. It’s interesting on a few levels.First of all, I was struck by the way in which IP terms in the…
09 October 2006
IAM Finance Editor Nigel Page has just returned from the inaugural get together of the Intellectual Asset Finance Society (IAFS), an organisation formed earlier this year for individuals involved in the increasingly important IP and finance nexus…
09 October 2006
The US Supreme Court is in session again and there are two patent cases up for review. First up is MedImmune v Genentech, which essentially deals with current US practice that states a licensee cannot challenge the validity of a licensor’s patent in…
07 October 2006
The US Patent and Trademark Office has announced it will re-examine three Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) patents relating to stem cells. This follows the emergence of evidence which purports to show that three studies describing methods…
05 October 2006
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