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On May 8, 2014, the Federal Circuit released its latest precedential opinion starring Dolly the Sheep. The tale began in 1996 when Dolly the Sheep became the first mammal ever cloned from an adult somatic cell through the successful work of Keith Henry Stockman Campbell and Ian Wilmut. Campbell and Wilmut patented their breakthrough method…
WIPO aims to contribute to knowledge through the work of its Global Challenges Division, which this week (June 16, 2014) releases a new patent landscape study of four Climate Change Mitigation Technologies (CCMTs) to inform policy discussions by providing evidence of innovation trends, geography, technology ownership and other facts from the global patent literatura. Keep…
YouView is facing an injunction after the UK High Court on June 16, current year ruled: the brand is infringing the “Your View” trademark owned by b2b telecoms firm Total, which could force it into a name change. This ruling marks the third successive win for Total over YouView in the dispute, which has been…
As of 10 June 2014, it will be possible to register a .uk domain, where previously only third-level extensions, such as .co.uk, .org.uk and .me.uk could be registered. Importantly, businesses and individuals that have previously registered a third-level extension will be given precedence for (second-level) .uk registrations, with .co.uk owners benefiting from the highest level…
THE ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN PATENT ORGANISATION, HAVING REGARD to the European Patent Convention and in particular Article 33, paragraph 2(d), thereof, HAS ADOPTED new RULES RELATING TO FEES Keep reading at http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/official-journal/2014/etc/se3/p1.html
The European Patent Office (EPO) and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) have decided to review their co-operation in the field of patents in order to better support innovation in both regions. At their annual bilateral meeting on June 3, 2014 in Seoul, the heads of the two offices agreed on a number of new…
Turning a product into a household name is the stuff of corporate dreams. Isn’t it? Not necessarily. Think Hoover, Jacuzzi, Frisbee. When was the last time you “vacuum-cleanered” the front room, took a dip in a “whirlpool bath”, or played in the park with your “flying disc”? It may seem like a fairly innocuous linguistic…