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Articles for April 2006
Sprint in dispute with Vonage
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01 April 2006
Sprint Nextel, the US mobile network operator, has filed a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) patent infringement suit against Vonage Holdings, the internet telephony group, and two other companies. The action, filed in Kansas, cites..
Shire brings patent action
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01 April 2006
Shire Pharmaceuticals is suing the Israeli company Teva Pharmaceuticals. It claims that Teva has infringed its patents in the deficit disorder drug Adderall XR. The action is being brought in Pennsylvania.
▪ Shire has confirmed that..
Police unit to combat piracy
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01 April 2006
A new police unit, dedicated to combating film piracy and the criminal networks sustaining the manufacture and distribution of counterfeit film products, has been launched by the Met’s Economic and Specialist Crime Command. It was..
Trade marks and domain names
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01 April 2006
Tesco Stores Ltd v (1) Elogicom (2) Ray [2006] EWHC 403 (Ch)
Japanese sales affected by internet fakes
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01 April 2006
The Japanese branch of the Union des Fabricants, a global association set up to fight counterfeiting, says that over half of the luxury goods sold over the internet in the country are fakes. It says..
The BlackBerry patent
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01 April 2006
The dispute between NTP and Research in Motion, which makes the BlackBerry device (see last month’s lead item) has been settled. RIM reached a US$612.5m ‘full and final settlement’
to end the five-year legal dispute...
Chinese patent action against US company
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01 April 2006
A US company appears to have become the first company to have been sued for patent infringement by a claimant from mainland China. Shenzhen’s Netac Technology has started proceedings against Parsippany, New Jersey, for an..
Dykes claim succeeds
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01 April 2006
A group of lesbian motorcyclists has won the right to trade mark the name Dykes on Bikes after showing the US Patent Office that the gay community does not find the name derogatory. The president..
Design rights – must fit; must match
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01 April 2006
Dyson Ltd v Qualtex (UK) Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 166
Fine for music piracy
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01 April 2006
A Cumbrian man has been ordered to repay more than £59,000 and pay £7,500 in costs, after admitting film and music piracy charges. Peter Rumney, from Workington, ran a counterfeiting operation which included making pirate..
Nike sues over shoe patent
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01 April 2006
Nike has filed a patent infringement suit against Adidas-Salomon, claiming that a number of its rival’s trainers copy its technology.
Nike said the Adidas shoes in question infringed its ‘SHOX cushioning’
patents and is demanding damages..
Microsoft in anti-piracy drive
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01 April 2006
Microsoft is to send out teams of investigators over the next few months to crack down on software piracy. It will work with trading standards bodies to prosecute individuals selling illegal copies of its Windows..
Animal copyright
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01 April 2006
A Canadian film-maker, Gregory Colbert, has set up the Animal Copyright Foundation. From the beginning of 2007, the Foundation hopes to ‘collect 1% of a media buy, including print, broadcast and internet, that uses animals’
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Patent Office examines patent criteria
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01 April 2006
The Patent Office has said that it is concerned that too many ‘trivial’ patents are being granted. It is considering toughening the criteria that innovations have to meet in order to gain patent protection.
The examination..
CFI ruling in White Pages case
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01 April 2006
Telefon & Buch Verlagsgesellschaft mbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) Case T-322/03
Statutory Instruments
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01 April 2006
Patents (Convention Countries) Order 2006 (SI 2006 No 315)
Copyright and Performances (Application to Other Countries) Order 2006 (SI 2006 No 316)
Designs (Convention Countries) Order 2006 (SI 2006 No 317)
Plant Breeders’ Rights (Naming and Fees) Regulations..
Patents – inventive steps
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01 April 2006
Ida Ltd and others v Southampton University; Howse and Ashby [2006] EWCA Civ 145
Top US patents
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01 April 2006
The US Patent and Trademark Office lists the following as the top 10 US patent recipients for 2005 (the 1995 rankings are in brackets):
IBM
2,941
(1)
Canon
1,828
(2)
Hewlett-Packard
1,797
(19)
Matsushita
1,688
(8)
Samsung
1,641
(21)
Micron technology
1,561
(158)
Intel
1,549
(33)
Hitachi
1,271
(7)
Toshiba
1,258
(6)
Fujitsu
1,154
12)
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Protecting TRIPS rights – Parliamentary questions
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01 April 2006
The question:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much his Department has spent on enabling the least developed countries to meet the economic, administrative and legal challenges of making use of..
WIPO charged with giving poor copyright advice
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01 April 2006
Consumers International has claimed that poor countries are being wrongly advised to enact tougher copyright laws than are required by international treaties, thus making access to copyright publications prohibitively costly.
The body, which links more than..
Cigar trade marks appeal
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01 April 2006
MasterCigars Direct, a tobacco importer, has said that it will appeal after losing a High Court action over the import of Cuban cigars. It lost its case against Hunters and Frankau, which regards itself as..
Acambis in patent action
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01 April 2006
Bavarian Nordic has started proceedings against Acambis in Austria, where the UK company manufactures its MVA smallpox vaccine. It claims that Acambis has infringed its patent.
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International Paper settles patent dispute
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01 April 2006
International Paper, the US paper-to-packaging group, has settled a patent infringement case brought by Neva mar, a former unit. International Paper has agreed to pay US$8.55m in settlement.
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