Posted by: Amit Zuckerstein in Untagged on
May 01, 2008
The Greek court faces an interesting lawsuit filed by three islanders from the Island of Lesbos (named after the poet Sappho, who praised love between women) against The Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece over the use of the the word lesbian in its name.
Source: Yahoo! News: "People of Lesbos Take Gay Group To Court Over Term
Posted by: Amit Zuckerstein in Korea on
Apr 29, 2008
The USPTO and the European Patent Office (EPO) issued a press release in which they announced on a new Patent Prosecution Highway pilot program between the two patent offices.
The new trial program will be launched in September 2008.
Per the press release from the EPO:
"The Patent Prosecution Highway will leverage fast-track patent examination procedures already available in both offices to allow applicants to obtain corresponding patents faster and more efficiently. It also will permit each office to exploit the work previously done by the other office and reduce duplication. In turn the initiative will reduce examination workload and improve patent quality
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Under the Patent Prosecution Highway, an applicant whose application filed with either the EPO or the USPTO
The U.S. District Court in Delaware rejected Israeli generic drug company Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. request to sell a generic version of Procter & Gamble's drug Actonel . The ruling is part of a patent infringement lawsuit filed against Teva in 2004.
Teva's claimed that Procter & Gamble's patent for the drug was not valid due to the obviousness of the invention.
Procter & Gamble's patent for risedronate (US5583122), the active ingredient in Actonel ,will remain valid until 2013. Actonel was approved in 2000 by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the prevention and treatment
Everybody gets sued for infringing "Mobile entertainment
Posted by: Amit Zuckerstein in USPTO, United States, United Kingdom, UK-IPO, TTab, Trademarks, trademark, private copying, Patent Legislation, Inventors, indefinite articles, ICANN, Domain names, domain name tasting, defences, cyberlaw, Copyright defences, copyright, consultation, claims, blogging, Australia on
Jan 21, 2008
I'd like to share 10 IP related blog posts that caught my eye in the previous week.
Patents
1. Dennis Crouch, in his blog "PatentlyO", writes about one of the suggested changes mentioned in the Senate report on patent reform and in particular to the elimination of
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