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Alleged file-sharers face crackdown from Ministry of Sound

The Ministry of Sound has sent 2,000 letters out to people who it alleges have unlawfully infringed its copyright by downloading or uploading its tracks without permission. The letters ask for...

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Intellectual Property Office website struck down by Operation Payback

The website of The Intellectual Property Office was down for a whole day, after it suffered a denial of service attack at the hands of Operation Payback. Operation Payback is an anonymous group...

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Apple sues Motorola for patent infringement

Apple has filed a claim accusing Motorola of patent infringement in the use of software relating to display tools, including touch screens. The claim has been filed in the US District Court of...

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Microsoft and Motorola in spat over patents and technical standards

Microsoft and Motorola have gone to court over a breakdown in their relationship over use of Motorola’s patented products. They had been working together to use Motorola’s patents to create technical...

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Microsoft founder fails in infringement lawsuit

Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft with Bill Gates, has failed in his claim that a number of household names, including Facebook and Google, had infringed patents registered by his firm Interval...

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Nokia takes another bite at the Apple

Nokia has filed court proceedings against Apple in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands, alleging that Apple has infringed Nokia patents in a number of products sold in those countries.  Nokia filed...

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Picture not so perfect – Shutterfly and Kodak accuse each other of patent...

Kodak has filed proceedings against Shutterfly, the photo-sharing website, with the Securities Exchange Commission in the United States for the alleged infringement of its patents. In return,...

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Sit back and…go to trial – Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd v Delta Airways Inc,...

The Court of Appeal rejected a ruling of the High Court that had granted summary judgment to Delta Airways Inc (“Delta”) in relation to an action brought by Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd (“Virgin”)....

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Company gets injunctive protection from prickly director – Hedgehog Golf Co...

Hedgehog applied to the High Court for a perpetual injunction preventing its former director, FH, from disclosing confidential information about Hedgehog and its business. The business involved the...

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You’ve lost your bottle – Schütz (UK) Ltd v Werit UK Ltd, Court of Appeal

The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of a patent holder where the High Court had previously ruled that, where part of a patented product had been replaced, there had been no infringement of the...

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Epson issues proceedings to protect patents

Epson, the print cartridge manufacturer, has issued proceedings in the High Court against Dynamic Cassette (DC) for alleged infringement of its patents relating to its printer ink cartridges. DC...

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European Commission updates counterfeit goods regulation to help rights...

The European Commission has published a proposed Regulation regarding the customs enforcement of intellectual property rights. If implemented, the Regulation would update the Counterfeit Goods...

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Nokia and Apple ring the same tone and settle at last

Nokia filed several proceedings last year against Apple for patent infringements, with the dispute growing as Apple countersued (as can be seen here and here), but the two technology companies have...

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Intellectual Property Office consults on Bolar patent exceptions

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has started a consultation to investigate concerns over the Bolar exemption under section 60(5)(i) of the Patents Act 1977, which allows the performance of...

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Nokia infringing 3G patent, but does it matter? – Nokia v IPCom, High Court

The High Court has ruled that certain unspecified 3G Nokia phones infringe a patent registered by IPCom, the German company. The patent, which allows emergency and security services to get prioritised...

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Apple in another patent dispute, this time with HTC

Apple has filed a complaint with the US’s International Trade Commission against HTC, its fellow phone and tablet PC manufacturer, for the alleged infringement of patents by unspecified HTC devices....

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Amazon ‘one-click’ not granted patent

The European Patent Office (EPO) has upheld a decision of the EPO’s Examining Division that Amazon’s ‘one-click’ system for purchasing a product on its website, whereby customers can pay for a product...

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Samsung seeks injunction to stop Apple iPhone 4S in four countries as Samsung...

Samsung’s and Apple’s patent tit-for-tat spat continues apace, with Samsung seeking injunctions in Australia, France, Italy and Japan to stop Apple’s sales of the iPhone 4S. Samsung has recently...

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Another appeal against exclusion from patentability allowed by the High Court...

Following the decision of the High Court in Halliburton, the High Court has now allowed an appeal against the decision of an Intellectual Property Office (IPO) hearing officer that had prevented the...

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“The Patent Cliff – Lipitor goes over the Edge”

As the largest ever number of patents protecting the pharmaceutical industry’s most profitable “blockbuster” drugs are set to expire, for India and China it’s going to be a very merry Christmas and an...

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Government proposes change in law to make UK a better place to carry out drug...

The UK Government would like to change the law to make the UK a more amenable place to carry out clinical trials. There is an exemption from breach of patented pharmaceutical products when the use is...

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Sticky situation as gelled honey medical dressing patent ruled to be valid –...

Apimed had successfully registered a European patent for a medical dress which combined honey with a gelling agent. The Patents County Court (PCC) had ruled that the patent was invalid for obvious in...

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Essential patent sharing supported by heavyweights

Apple and Microsoft have stated that they will not take enforcement proceedings against their competitors if they infringe registered patents which are considered to be “essential” to an industry...

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Yahoo! sues Facebook for alleged infringement of 10 patents

Yahoo! is suing Facebook for alleged infringement of 10 of its patents, alleging that its entire social networking model is based on Yahoo’s patented social networking technology. Facebook has about 50...

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Facebook counter-sues in Yahoo! patent fight

Facebook has hit back against Yahoo! in the latest round of a patent spat. Facebook has accused Yahoo! of infringing some of Facebook’s patents relating to online recommendations and photo-tagging....

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Apple patents ruled to be invalid – HTC v Apple, High Court

In a dispute between Apple and HTC, the mobile phone manufacturers, the High Court has ruled that three of Apple’s patents are invalid. Two of the patents related to touch-screen technology (and, in...

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A small step for Cipla, a giant step for Generic Kind

The Indian generics company, Cipla, has grabbed the headlines not once but twice over the last few weeks for pushing the generic cause onwards and leaving big pharma feeling the effects in its wake....

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Supplementary Protection Certificates – High Court refers questions to be...

Actavis v Sanofi, High Court To the frustration of the parties and judge alike, the High Court has decided to refer particular questions on the interpretation of Article 3(a),(c) and (d) of the...

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IPO consults on extension to Bolar exception so that innovative drugs can use...

The Intellectual Property Office is consulting on changes to the Patents Act that would see developers of innovative drugs use patented drugs in order to secure regulatory approval for new drugs,...

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US Judge orders Apple to disclose HTC deal to Samsung

A US judge has ordered Apple to disclose a full copy of its 10-year licence agreement with HTC which sets out their new patent-sharing deal to Samsung. Samsung successfully petitioned the court to...

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Samsung asks for another bite of the Apple

 Samsung is pursuing a new trial, or reduced sum, after US$1.05 billion of damages were awarded to Apple in August last year for patent infringement. The electronics giant wants the verdict to be...

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High Court patent ruling a tough pill to swallow for Protomed Limited

Protomed Limited v Medication Systems Limited, High Court The High Court has rejected an application for an interim injunction against an alleged infringement of two patents held by Protomed relating...

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European Patent Office gives late submission the boot

Saint-Gobain Glass France v AGC Flat Glass Europe SA, Technical Board of Appeal The Technical Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office has rejected an appeal to admit late evidence into opposition...

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Novartis persistence pays off

Novartis AG V Hospira UK Ltd, Court of Appeal The Court of Appeal has granted Novartis an interim injunction preventing a generic version of its osteoporosis drug, Aclasta, from being launched pending...

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Monsanto patent claim fruitful as Indiana farmer found guilty of patent...

The US Supreme Court has found an Indiana farmer, Mr Bowman, guilty of patent infringement for growing genetically modified soybean seeds by planting second generation seeds. The Court ruled that...

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Don’t be the boy that cried wolf – Court of Appeal considers infringement...

Sudarshan Chemical Industries Ltd v Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH, Court of Appeal The Court of Appeal has concluded that a patent for a yellow pigment was invalid and that a letter sent to the...

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Global Patent Prosecution Highway is given the go-ahead

The Intellectual Property Office has announced the launch of the Global Patent Prosecution Highway (GPPH). The GPPH will consist of 13 participating patent offices from around the world and allow for...

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Plans to extend patent infringement exemption look positive for UK clinical...

The Regulatory Reform Committee has recommended that the Government pass new laws which would allow organisations to conduct clinical trials without worrying about patent infringement. The new laws...

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Patent reference heats up as Advocate General releases his opinion in support...

Merck Canada Inc v Sigma Pharmaceuticals Plc, Advocate General Opinion at the European Court of Justice Advocate General Jääskinen (AG) has given his opinion on questions referred to the European Court...

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