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Austria tidies up appeals against office decisions 26 Aug 2013 | 03:18 pm
Austria has recently introduced a system of new provincial administrative courts which, it is said, will affect administrative provisions in several intellectual property statutes, including Austria's...
Current Patent Lawyer magazine 26 Aug 2013 | 02:42 pm
Looking for something to read? The July/August issue of The Patent Lawyer magazine has plenty of easy-read material, even though there's not a great deal in this specific issue to rivet the attention ...
Revision of German Patent Act Finally Accepted 23 Aug 2013 | 02:21 pm
Good News for DPMA President Cornelia Rudloff-Schäffer Both the German Bundestag and the German Bundesrat have now accepted the proposal for a revision of the German Patent Act previously discuss...
Patent Litigation and Competition Law in India II 23 Aug 2013 | 02:02 pm
Here's the second post from our good friend and blogging colleague from India, J. Sai Deepak, founder of The Demanding Mistress intellectual property and innovation weblog. Both pieces focus on areas ...
New Rules provide for the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court 21 Aug 2013 | 09:23 pm
The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.7) Rules 2013 (SI 2013/1974) come into force on 1 October 2013. These Rules feature, among other thingss, amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) which are mad...
The interplay between patent litigation and competition law in India I 20 Aug 2013 | 11:47 pm
Our good friend and blogging colleague from India, J. Sai Deepak, founder of The Demanding Mistress intellectual property and innovation weblog, has kindly written two pieces specially for PatLit, of ...
Hamilton v Sunbeam: when outsourcing triggers the on-sale bar 19 Aug 2013 | 12:29 pm
On Wednesday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an interesting judgment in Hamilton Beach Brands Inc. v Sunbeam Products Inc., affirming the applicability of the on-sale bar in a ...
A Scottish Claim Construction Hearing? 14 Aug 2013 | 04:05 pm
Judgment was delivered yesterday by the Outer House of the Scottish Court of Session in Total Containment Engineering Ltd v Total Waste Management Alliance Ltd [2013] CSOH 135 in a matter which may be...
Pharmaceutical Innovation, Competition And Patent Law: a Trilateral Perspective: a new book 8 Aug 2013 | 07:56 pm
Pharmaceutical Innovation, Competition And Patent Law: a Trilateral Perspective, edited by Max Planck Director Josef Drexl and Finnish scholar Nari Lee, has just been published by Edward Elgar. This b...
Late filing in German Nullity Procedure – Do Not Overstretch 7 Aug 2013 | 05:54 pm
After the decision “Bearbeitungsmaschine” discussed here, the fourth Senate of the Bundespatentgericht has issued a new decision with the name “Dichtungsring” (4 NI 13/11) (headnote published here. Fu...
