Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:11 am | By Rachelle Korinko
In late May, the 2013 IP Commission report was released. The report is published by the National Bureau of Asian Research, under the auspices of Dennis C. Blair and Jon Huntsman, Jr. While the commission expresses several potential short, medium, and long-term solutions to the problem of global intellectual property theft, the hardest hitting points expressed in the report are the losses incurred from the theft.
Shapes are Now Patentable?
Friday, June 14, 2013 1:28 pm | By Rachelle Korinko
This week Digital Liberty (DL) and Property Rights Alliance (PRA) filed comments with the International Trade Commission under violation of section 337. While both DL and PRA support and believe in patent laws when it comes to promoting technological innovation, occasionally companies and court systems overstep their bounds. In this case Apple and Samsung went into litigations due to patent infringements based on the shape of their products.
Here are the comments.
European Tobacco Products Directive will affect the U.S. economy and violate the IP system!
Friday, May 31, 2013 4:02 pm | By Lorenzo Montanari
Last Monday, May 27th, the Health Irish Minister James Reilly declared that the Irish Cabinet approved his plan to remove the ‘mobile advertisement’ for tobacco firms before World of No Tobacco Day, today Friday, May 31th. Ireland will become the second country after Australia to introduce plain pack cigarettes. In fact, the same policy, of plain packaging on all cigarette packs, has been already adopted, in Australia in December 2012. This kind of implementation could be adopted very soon, not only by the New Zealand Government, but also by European Union.
