WIPO Group To Consider Substantive Amendment To Patent Cooperation Treaty
Intellectual Property Watch
A US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) spokesperson told Intellectual Property Watch: The availability of expedited processing under the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) has been shown to provide benefits for offices and applicants alike, including ...

Protecting intellectual property rights highlighted for foreign investments
Eleven Myanmar
Myanmar is cooperating with international bodies for its intellectual property right laws which include patent, industrial design right, trademark and copyright. Myanmar became a member of World Trade Organization in 1994 and a member of World ...

WIPO Development Committee Ends On Positive Note With Modest Results
Intellectual Property Watch
A number of discussions on areas which could not meet consensus during the course of the 11th session of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP), from 13-17 May, were pushed to the last day to find solutions. Hard lines had been ...

Alcatel-Lucent, Sherwin-Williams: Intellectual Property
Bloomberg
Alcatel-Lucent SA (ALU) lost its appeals court bid to revive patent-infringement claims against Overstock.com Inc. (OSTK) and Newegg Inc. over online shopping in an effort to increase its royalties. Overstock.com and Newegg won a jury verdict in 2011 ...
Newegg, Overstock win patent fight with Alcatel-Lucent Yahoo! News
Newegg nukes corporate troll Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year Ars Technica
Newegg Wins Patent Appeal Against Alcatel-Lucent MarketWatch (press release)
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Lilly, ThyssenKrupp, Adidas, AMD: Intellectual Property
Bloomberg
Addressing Canada's outlier status with respect to the interpretation of patent law is a priority for Lilly, the company said in a statement. We will continue to consider all our legal options to protect what we believe to be valid intellectual ...

3-D Printing: the Ultimate Intellectual-Property Threat?
Bloomberg
In response, established companies attempting to curtail such practices -- or simply leveraging flaws in the intellectual-property system -- might overreact, suing a promising new industry with such vigor that they forestall legitimate innovation. So ...

Judge Robart's patent medicine
The Economist (blog)
A standard often relies on intellectual property created by many different companies. Disputes over what this ... As a guide, he took a judgment in a patent-infringement case from 1970, Georgia-Pacific v United States Plywood. This sets out 15 factors ...

Alleged Patent Infringement by BSX
Zacks.com
The complaint alleges, among other things, that the production and sale of Guidezilla guide extension catheter by Boston Scientific, which gained the 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Mar 2013, infringes the patent ...

World Health Assembly Next Week: R&D, NCDs, Pandemics Top Agenda
Intellectual Property Watch
With just days before the UN World Health Assembly opens, member states once again face a packed agenda with key decisions to be taken on some highly-politicised public health and intellectual property matters, including how to move forward on the ...

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