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Apoplectic over Apotex
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While everyone was discussing the Symbian ruling last week on the patentability of computer software (see the IPKat's earlier post here, together with many and varied comments from his readers), another British patent decision slipped by virtually unnoticed. This was the ruling of Mr Justice Norris in Les Laboratoires Servier and another v... more »
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Absolute Power
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Don't spill alcohol on your radio.V&S Vin & Spirit, the proprietor of Absolut (the trade mark of Swedish vodka) has commenced proceedings against the rebranded Virgin Radio, Absolute Radio.As well as the vodka trade mark V&S owns the Absolut Tracks music project, and claims Virgin Radio is infringing its trade mark and passing its services off as... more »
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Friday fineries
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The number of events listed in the IPKat's efficiently-updated 'Forthcoming Events' feature, which lives on the left-hand side-bar of this weblog's front page, still stands at 48. FREE events are listed in an interesting colour. The IPKat can confirm that, despite some confusion, it now emerges that... more »
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Quick question on "non-asserts"
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The IPKat has been asked a quick question: perhaps you have the answer. It sometimes happens, usually when an intellectual property dispute is settled by agreement, that the IP rights owner undertakes not to assert his right against the other party to the agreement. In theory the rights owner merely forbears to sue, but in practice it can be said to... more »
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Boxing pharmaceuticals: another piece in...
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Today -- while her Opinion on 'extraction' of data and the European sui generis database right in Directmedia was being affirmed by the Court of Justice of the European Communities in Directmedia (see the IPKat's comment below) -- Advocate General Sharpston was delivering another Opinionm Case C‑276/05 Wellcome Foundation Ltd v Paranova Pharmazeutika... more »
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Extraction and databases -- the ECJ rules
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Earlier today the Court of Justice of the European Communities (ECJ) pronounced judgment in Case C‑304/07, Directmedia Publishing GmbH v Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, a reference from the Bundesgerichtshof, Germany, for a preliminary ruling on database rights and the meaning of Article 7 of Directive 96/9 of the European... more »
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Symbian appeal dismissed
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The Court of Appeal judgment in Symbian Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents has just been published, and is available from BAILII here. The UK-IPO's appeal against the decision of Mr Justice Patten in the High Court (here, with IPKat commentary here and here) has been dismissed. More details later...... more »
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Credit crunch gets sticky for trade mark...
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The IPKat was bemused to read in Wales Online about a cocoa-covered battle in waiting. Captain Beany, the self-appointed Welsh superhero, sometime election candidate, baked bean devotee and chocolate philanthropist (he appears to give the stuff away for free) has expressed outrage at the fact that Selfridges has begun to sell... more »
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Mosley on the march -- first Strasbourg,...
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Max Mosley, the president of Formula One motor racing's governing body, has been in the news a great deal recently for his interest in governing bodies of a rather different sort (see IPKat posts here, here and here).Right: Mosley, having had a whip-round, prepares for another brush with the lawThe IPKat learns now from The Guardian that Mosley --... more »
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Introducing the Featured Artists' Coalition
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The BBC News informs the IPKat (well, it's actually Birgit Clark who's doing the informing) of the creation of a new constellation -- if that's what a collection of stars is -- called the Featured Artists' Coalition. Initial members include such household names as Wet wet Wet, Robbie Williams, Radiohead, Kaiser Chiefs and The Verve, who are... more »
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