The recent ruling of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the district court’s decision that Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke’s smash hit “Blurred Lines” impermissibly copied Marvin Gaye’s 1977 “Got to Give It Up” has created a stir in both the legal and artistic communities. Below, Lawyer Monthly hears from Dr. Dariush Adli, President […]
Last week the Patents Court, a division of the English High Court, handed down another important decision in the continuing development of the law relating to Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) and FRAND. The decision was given in the case of Conversant Wireless v Huawei & ZTE. Below experts at EIP provide Lawyer Monthly with an […]
Written by Christof Höhne, Partner at EIP The race for patenting ‘self-driving’ cars is on! From Audi to Google, we have seen an increase in patent applications from influential companies, racing to get their invention on the streets first. With the future of driving shifting to fifth gear to change the way we see cars, […]
The internet is huge library full of information, consisting of book full of ideas and inventions. More often than not, we are unaware of all the things available, and for companies seeking innovation this can pose problems, especially in regard to patenting and trademarking. Therefore, we speak with Eleni Kokkini, a Senior Associate at […]
Expert Tim Murphy is Chief Executive Officer, Principal and exclusive commercial real estate broker of Rebounderz family entertainment centers. Below he outlines “what it takes” to turn intellectual property infringement into an ancillary income stream. According to a January 2018 Seyfarth Shaw LLP report titled “2017 Patent Litigation: A Statistical Overview,” the past 5 years […]
An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process which leads to technological progress, and for inventors, it is vital to protect their creation from being copied and misused. And as IP Lawyer Franco Oriti explains: ‘Henry Ford, has condensed this concept in his most famous slogan stating that "there is real […]
Petter Rindforth, Senior Partner of Fenix Legal speaks on protecting your domain names on the internet and the broadcasting copyright treaty draft that the WIPO released earlier last month. World Intellectual Property Organisation has circulated a new draft text on definitions in the global broadcasting copyright treaty; can you share your thoughts on this? […]
Nils Schmid is an expert in IP law; he discusses how digitalisation is affecting IP law and the difficulties it poses on inventions. From your point of view, how does digitalisation affect the protection of intellectual property, particularly technical inventions? “Protection” for technical inventions can in general be achieved by two different actual mutually […]
There would be numerous points to raise in order to help innovators to be successful with patents, but one point seems striking to Rainer Kuhnen. There would be numerous points to raise in order to help innovators to be successful with patents, but one point seems striking to Rainer Kuhnen: ‘For innovative companies, it seems […]
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