IP Think Tank Global Week in Review - 25 April 2008
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Here is IP Think Tank’s weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet.
(Please accept our apologies that it is a little late this week.)
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Highlights this week included:
- CAFC vacates FTC’s decision that Rambus breached antitrust duty by violating JEDEC patent disclosure rules and orders new trial: (Philip Brooks), (Techdirt), (Ars Technica), (IP Law360), (Peter Zura’s 271 Patent Blog), (Hal Wegner), (IPBiz), (IP Law360),
- UK Court of Appeal rules on whether prior art not in the same design field should be taken into account in registered Community design case: Green Lane Products Ltd v PMS International Group Plc & Ors: (IPKat), (Catch Us If You Can!!!),
- US CAFC throws out jury patent infringement verdict, raises potentially invalidating prior art: Finisar v DirecTV: (Patent Prospector), (Hal Wegner), (EDTexweblog.com), (Peter Zura’s 271 Patent Blog), (IP Law360), (Patently-O), (Patently-O),
Global
Global - General
- Further resolution needed to keep IP issues in WTO negotiations: (Intellectual Property Watch),
- Mobile phone manufacturers seek to control rising IP costs: (Intellectual Property Watch),
- Managing trade secrets for legal security: (Securing Innovation),
- World IP Day 2008 – A message from DG Kamil Idris: (WIPO),
- World IP Day 2008 – Celebrating innovation: (WIPO),
- ((red)) and the ownership of IP: (IP ADR Blog),
- The first 5 things (to consider when developing IP strategy for a new product): (IP ThinkTank),
- WIPO candidates address civil society concerns on access, transparency: (Intellectual Property Watch),
- Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains how IP rights are part of the globalization problem: (Techdirt),
- Do real world laws apply…