Overall Dip In IP Crime Thanks To Successful Partnerships, UK IP Office Says 24/09/2015 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office in conjunction with the IP Crime Group, made up of representatives from industry, law enforcement and government, have released official figures illustrating a decrease in the number of intellectual property crimes reported over the last year.
EPO: 1000s Of Patents Behind The Beer At Munich’s Oktoberfest 18/09/2015 by Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments The Munich Oktoberfest, the world-famous beer festival, is a display for a range of inventions, according to the Munich-based European Patent Office. A search in the patent database of the office revealed there are more than 2,000 European patents in every beer tent.
Cutting-Edge Energy Tech Presented At Swiss Energy And Climate Summit 18/09/2015 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment BERN – Everybody knows how annoying it is to run out of battery power for mobile devices. In the same way, storing energy is a continuing issue for renewable energy due to its non-continuous nature. A number of innovations presented at this week’s Swiss Energy and Climate Summit in Bern sought to address that problem. The yearly event invites Swiss and international speakers to put forward the latest in technology. And according to some participants from start-ups, intellectual property is key, but their IP strategy relies more and more on both patents and trade secrets.
New Opinion Of The European Copyright Society On “Reprobel”- Case (C-572/13) 16/09/2015 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment From the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), University of Strasbourg: On 5 September 2015, the European Copyright Society issued an Opinion on the conclusions presented on June 11, 2015 by the Advocate-General Pedro Cruz Villalón in the HP Belgium v. Reprobel-case pending before the Court of Justice of the EU (case C-572/13), following a request for preliminary ruling from the Brussels Court of Appeal (Belgium) lodged on 8 November 2013.
Polish Parliament Moves Toward Amending IP Law, Patent Registration Procedures 14/09/2015 by Jaroslaw Adamowski for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment WARSAW — The Polish Parliament has drafted an amended industrial property law which is expected to facilitate the procedure for registering trademarks and reduce related costs, as well as introduce a number of other modifications to the existing regulations.
European Trademark Office Documents Steep Cost Of Counterfeits In Sport Industry 10/09/2015 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment A new study released by the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), the European trademark office, measured the cost of intellectual property infringement in sport goods. According to the study, counterfeit in sport goods in the European Union causes a loss of revenue of some €500 million annually.
German Bundestag Not Happy About Being Kept Out Of TTIP Reading Room In Berlin 09/09/2015 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Transparency in negotiating free trade agreements continues to be a controversial issue, despite attempts of the official negotiators, especially European Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem, to pour oil on troubled waters. Regardless of Malmstroem’s transparency initiative for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the US-EU FTA, a storm is brewing in an area not easily neglected by negotiators.
Biopharmaceutical Industry Protests French Regime For Off-Label Products 08/09/2015 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment France is in the firing line of the biopharmaceutical industry for allowing the use of some products for other therapeutic indications than the one for which they obtained marketing authorisation.
UK To Introduce Webmarking For Registered Designs 27/08/2015 by Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments With strong backing from interested parties in the intellectual property community, the United Kingdom government plans to introduce legislation to give registered UK or European Community design holders the option to mark their products with the address of a website that links to the relevant registered design numbers, it said today.
Global IP Community: Eventful Season For Career Changes 27/08/2015 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The past few months have been eventful for career changes in the international intellectual property community. Here is a look at some of the changes in governments, international organisations, NGOs/academia, private sector and law offices.