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Bridgestone makes tracks after winning tyre design case in China
Japanese tyre and rubber company Bridgestone has won a legal dispute against Chinese company Qingdao Genco Industrial Group regarding infringement of its tyre design patent rights. The Qingdao City Intermediate People's Court...
INTA yeehaw's into its 135th annual meeting
It's time to sharpen your spurs and don the cowboy hat as the International Trademark Association's (INTA) annual conference gallops into Dallas, Texas this month from 4 - 8 May. The 135 th annual meeting, held in the Dallas...
World IP Day: government needs to get serious about IP warns FAST lawyer
The general counsel for the Federation Against Software Theft has told the UK government that the country needs a strong IP framework, ahead of a parliamentary meeting marking World IP Day. "Without a clear IP framework,...
German parliament seeks to limit software patents
The German parliament has passed a joint motion paper looking to stop the country's patent office from granting patents on software programs. The paper, ‘ A competitive and dynamic innovation in the software sector -...
Law Commission begins consultation on groundless threats of infringement
The England and Wales Law Commission has launched a consultation seeking views from rightsholders and lawyers on how best to reform the law relating to ‘groundless threats' of litigation over trademarks, patents and...
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Play or pay
As a disclaimer, I am a patent attorney who drafts software patents. But I am also a software engineer, and have worked for software companies and written countless lines of code. I have seen and lived both sides of the debate,...
Get off my cloud
Taylor Wessing's Christopher Thornham discusses the enforcement of patents regarding cloud computing from a UK perspective Computer systems are increasingly arranged with a user device in one location connected over a network...
FRANDly fire
Taylor Wessing's Kathleen Fox Murphy examines FRAND's confidentiality regime for third party licence agreements The UK High Court determined that pan-European technology search firm IPCom's standard essential patent EP...
Damage control
Buchalter Nemer's Sandra Thompson questions if it is time to talk about juries in patent cases in light of the Apple v Samsung damages award Apple sued Samsung Electronics, Samsung Electronics America and Samsung...
It's all part of the plan
With nearly S$100m in funding and an ambitious plan to become a central IP hub, Singapore is slinging above its weight, but can it truly compete? Catherine White speaks with Tan Yih San to find out The Republic of Singapore,...
LEGAL UPDATES
Counting the cost
THE CASE: Schütz (UK) Ltd v Werit (UK) Ltd The UK Supreme Court 13 March 2013 Hogan Lovells' Mark Marfé reviews section 68 of the Patents Act following the much publicised case On 13 March, the UK Supreme Court handed...
In deep water
T HE CASE: Kohler Mira Ltd v Bristan Group Ltd [2013] EWPCC 2 Patents County Court Community Design Court 28 January 2013 Wragge's Claire O'Brien discusses how indirect copying can still be infringing In a judgment handed down...
