Get ready for the new working week with a summary of all the stories posted on the IAM platform over the past seven days
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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
In a ruling handed down at the end of September, the French Constitutional Council has stated that the London Protocol does not contravene the French Constitution. This clears the way for France to ratify the Protocol, something that should – in…
04 October 2006
Look at the headline on this report about the European Patent Litigation Agreement. And then work out who is now making the running in the debate.Meanwhile, the UK’s Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) has reacted to recent criticisms…
03 October 2006
Now, I am no tax expert, but Merck’s current dispute with the IRS over the off-shoring of a part of its patent portfolio looks to have many serious implications for companies that try to get creative with IP and tax. What is clear is that a number…
02 October 2006
In what represents a remarkable about turn, the head of the Internal Market DG of the European Commission, Charlie McCreevy, has confirmed his support for the European Patent Litigation Agreement and the London Protocol. While support for the…
29 September 2006
You can’t say that IBM is not a leader when it comes to IP. The company that showed how much money can be made through licensing has now declared that it will publish its patent applications online so that potential problems can be identified early…
28 September 2006
I was having a quick whiz through Google today and came across an English version of the Declaration of Principles put out by Sweden’s Pirate Party. While trademark owners will not be particularly concerned, copyright and patent owners will find a…
28 September 2006
University technology transfer has been in the news quite a bit recently. This follows a report from the Milken Institute on the commercialisation of university research in the US, with a special focus on the biotech industry. The report finds, not…
27 September 2006
As I said yesterday, it looks like the European Patent Litigation Agreement is going to prove as controversial as many previous European patent initiatives. Here’s the latest from Brussels. Those who support the EPLA are going to have to put in a…
26 September 2006
It looks like the European anti-software patent movement is gearing up for another fight. This time, the enemy is the European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA). It is, say the software patent obsessives, yet another attempt to introduce software…
25 September 2006
Part of the brand new IAM website is this blog, which is going to be written by me, Joff Wild, the magazine’s editor. I am not an IP lawyer, so you are not going to get much from me on the finer points of IP law; neither am I an IP owner so I am not…
24 September 2006
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