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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
The Court of Appeal in London has handed down its decision in the Macrossan v Comptroller General of Patents Designs and Trade Marks case, which related to the extent to which computer software is patentable in the United Kingdom. The appellant …
28 October 2006
I have just come across a very interesting piece from the Houston Chronicle on how the Patent Reform Act 2006 may affect VCs in the United States. If nothing else, it goes to show how important knowledge of patent issues is to the venture capital…
28 October 2006
It’s been a busy week for IP merchant banc, Ocean Tomo. On Wednesday it announced the creation of the Ocean Tomo 300 Patent Index, an equity index based on the value of companies’ patents. A day later, it held its second auction of intellectual…
28 October 2006
There is something oddly comforting about the news that IBM has launched a patent infringement suit against Amazon.com. In proceedings initiated on Monday, the company alleges that Amazon.com has infringed five of its patents relating to key…
25 October 2006
Another piece in the FT, this time on how Chinese companies are increasingly to be seen as plaintiffs and defendants in US patent cases. For those who are optimistic about China’s long-term IP development, it is another healthy sign. Being involved…
23 October 2006
There’s a great article in today’s Financial Times about middle class crime in Britain. Apparently, we are all at it. Or most of us anyway. And I am pretty sure that what applies in Britain applies equally in most of the rest of the world.The…
21 October 2006
It’s less than a week now until the second OceanTomo intellectual property auction takes place in New York City. The first one, which took place in San Francisco in April, has to be counted a major success for this self-styled IP merchant banc. Even…
20 October 2006
I had lunch with Rob Sterne of Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox today (at Luigino, a very good Washington DC restaurant I can heartily recommend). Rob is heavily involved in the upcoming Supreme Court case of KSR International Co v Teleflex Inc et al,…
18 October 2006
Remuneration for workers whose research has led to the creation of valuable patents for corporations has been a big topic in Japan for a while now. A couple of years back a string of cases saw ex-employees being handed large awards by courts who…
17 October 2006
There’s a lot of statistical information to be found in a document put out today by WIPO on patent filing activity. Not surprisingly, for example, there are more patent filings being made than ever before; notably, according to the report: “Patent…
16 October 2006
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