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US Patent Office Conducts Tour On Industrial Design Protection

The US Patent and Trademark Office is meeting with industry groups and intellectual property experts to determine how to strike just the right balance on industrial design protection in the United States.

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WTO Modalities Text On IP Issues Available Here

A 17 July text of the draft modalities for TRIPS-related issues has been circulated at the WTO. Now available here.

All Eyes On Latest Qualcomm-Nokia Court Battle's Impact On Patents And Licensing

An important court case in the ongoing saga between two of the mobile industry's most influential technology firms begins next week.

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Congress Debates New Rules On Generic Biological Medicines

The differences between traditional chemical drugs and biological ones is the crux of the debate going on in the United States as Congress and the Food and Drug Administration try to create a regulatory pathway that gives consumers greater access to cheaper, generic biological drugs, but still spurs innovation and protects innovator patent claims.

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Intellectual Property: A Means To An Access And Benefit-Sharing End?

Intellectual property is a useful leveraging tool for developing countries eager to see the creation of a global access and benefit-sharing regime on genetic resource use, said a recent panel on biodiversity protections in international law.

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YouTube, eBay Decisions Raise Questions For US Copyright Law

Two recent court decisions against key United States internet companies - Google and eBay - are almost certain to reopen a long-standing truce between intellectual property rights-holders and website operators, over liability for the actions of users.

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Patent Insurance Scheme: Financial Resource For WHO Global IP Strategy?

Itaru Nitta writes: the Patent Insurance Scheme, which Geneva-based IP consulting group Green IP Project has proposed, would likely create a substantive, sustainable and price-uncoupled financial resource for the implementation of the WHO Global Strategy on IP and innovation.

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A New Business Model For The Music Industry Explained

Bennett Lincoff writes: The music industry has been in a decade-long death-spiral. This predicament results primarily from insistence by those who benefited most from how the industry operated before the internet arose that the established relationships upon which their past successes were based be preserved as the digital music marketplace develops. Simply put, however, the internet is fundamentally incompatible with the music industry's traditional sales-based revenue model. An alternative is needed. I suggest that lawmakers aggregate the rights of songwriters, music publishers, recording artists and record labels in their respective musical works and sound recordings and create a single right for digital transmissions of recorded music.

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