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China’s Bitter Medicine for Gilead: SIPO Cancels Viread Patent

China’s Bitter Medicine for Gilead: SIPO Cancels Viread Patent

Last August, China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) invalidated the core patent for Gilead Sciences' flagship drug Viread (as was reported by IPR Daily and a number of other news sources).  This landmark ruling comes on the heels of recent changes to China's compulsory licensing scheme for pharmaceutical products.  This quick-step of legislative reform followed by the […]

“World War Pink”: Victoria’s Secret and Thomas Pink Square Off in Dispute Over “Pink” Brands

“World War Pink”: Victoria’s Secret and Thomas Pink Square Off in Dispute Over “Pink” Brands

The global branding dispute between Thomas Pink and Victoria’s Secret opened up a front in Canada last month. In the decision, Justice Hughes of the Federal Court found that Victoria’s Secret had standing to seek a declaration that use of marks associated with its PINK clothing line did not infringe or depreciate trade-marks owned by […]

Reality Check: Federal Court Rejects Bridgestone’s Hypothetical Channels of Trade Argument in Confusion Analysis

Reality Check: Federal Court Rejects Bridgestone’s Hypothetical Channels of Trade Argument in Confusion Analysis

The Federal Court recently dismissed an appeal from the Trade-marks Opposition Board regarding confusion between trade-marks for Bridgestone's motor tires and Campagnolo's specialty bike accessories. What made this case especially interesting were the comments on arguments regarding "hypothetical channels of trade".

Talking “Open Innovation” in Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Talking “Open Innovation” in Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

The contemporary global order for the promotion of innovation exaggerates the role of intellectual property (IP) as a closed proprietary model of knowledge production and protection. Partly as a boomerang effect of that order and/or partly as a coincidence of the phenomenal rise in the information and communication technologies, there has been increased gravitation toward […]

News on ISPs liability from Spain: YouTube not responsible for infringements of copyrighted materials. The second chapter of Telecinco v YouTube

News on ISPs liability from Spain: YouTube not responsible for infringements of copyrighted materials. The second chapter of Telecinco v YouTube

Marco Bassini is the Managing Editor of MediaLaws, www.medialaws.eu, and a lawyer at Baker & McKenzie LLP’s office in Milan. The re-posting of this analysis is part of a cross-posting collaboration with MediaLaws: Law and Policy of the Media in a Comparative Perspective.

Crowdfunding's Impact on Start-Up IP Strategy

Crowdfunding's Impact on Start-Up IP Strategy

Crowdfunding has been heralded as a revolutionary and democratic way to connect ordinary individuals with innovative projects they would like to support. The version involving equity investments in start-ups will be regulated under the U.S. JOBS Act of 2012.[i] But start-ups who use this legal pathway will become essentially “junior” reporting companies under the securities […]

Can Capitalism and Collaboration Co-exist? Tech Sector Cross-licensing and the Emergence of ‘Cooperative Competition’

Can Capitalism and Collaboration Co-exist? Tech Sector Cross-licensing and the Emergence of ‘Cooperative Competition’

In this year’s State of the Union address, US President Barack Obama reaffirmed his Administration’s commitment to addressing economic inequality by fostering the jobs of the future: “We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.” In order to do […]