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New report reveals IV's Ocean Tomo auction buying spree
Avancept LLP has published a new report entitled Publicly Auctioned Patent Buyers: Intellectual Ventures & Others. This seeks to identify the organisations that bought patents at te publicly-held Open Tomo auctions that took place ... View postJoff Wild, IAM magazine | 11 Mar 2010
Brazil close to declaring war on US IP
At some stage, possibly quite soon, some US patent owners could get very angry with both their own government and the government of Brazil. Yesterday the latter stated that as part of a trade dispute with the US over subsidies to ... View postJoff Wild, IAM magazine | 09 Mar 2010
There is more IP litigation in China than anywhere else on earth
The statistics coming out of China get more and more astounding. The Supreme People's Court has announced that in 2009 30,626 civil IP cases were filed. That's up over 25% on the 2008 figure. What's more, last year the courts decided ... View postJoff Wild, IAM magazine | 08 Mar 2010
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Private practice attorneys provide significant value-added to their clients by helping them to secure quality patents. An exclusive IAM/Ocean Tomo collaboration reveals which US law firms are doing just that. View article
Bilski: the life sciences angle
The Bilski case will be closely watched to see whether the Supreme Court will use it to address determination of patent eligibility well beyond business methods. View article
All change at the TIPO: the Accelerated Examination Programme and a new fee structure
The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) has formally commenced use of the Accelerated Examination Programme. An applicant can now apply to speed up patent examination by providing an examination report or official action response received for a corresponding application abroad. In addition, the TIPO has amended the fee structure for patent examination. View report
Australia – the latest target for unsolicited offers of IP services
The issue of unsolicited correspondence from a range of organisations has been an ongoing problem in Australia. In the latest development on the issue, IP Australia has issued a warning on its website regarding a company known as TMP, Trademark Publisher, which requests payment for publication of the trademark owner's trademark details in a register. View report
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