At an extraordinary meeting in Munich on 2/3 February, delegations of the 36 member states of the European Patent Organisation will vote to elect the next EPO President (source: EPO.org) – RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com

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We are pleased to announce that papers for our Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) have been posted or emailed to members to enable you to vote on a number of measures that we believe will strengthen .uk and the domain name industry.

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Nowadays, the most significant efforts and works for preservation of Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights have been carried out under the headline of “Fight Against Piracy”.

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At the point reached today it is realized that great and utmost efforts must be exercised for ensuring that Professional Associations should take much more effective role in the protection of property rights of Owners of the Works of Art and related Right Holders.

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Intellectual property Rights, i.e. property rights acquired from the Work of Art, are the fundamental human rights which are adhered strictly to the Author and which are vested in human being by birth.

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We would like to invite you to attend the forthcoming UK Internet Governance Forum (UK IGF) meeting on 3 February.

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In “BMC Resources, Inc. v. Paymentech, L.P.”, 498 F.3d 1373, 1378-79 (Fed. Cir. 2007), the Federal Circuit held that direct infringement of a method claim requires a single party to perform every step of the claimed method.

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United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director David Kappos recently announced changes to the examiner count system that will likely impact examination time frames for requests for continued examination (RCE).

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As many patent practitioners are doubtless aware, there is substantial redundancy in the prosecution of patent applications around the world.

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The High Court in the recent case of “The Codemasters Software Co. Ltd v Automobile Club De L’Ouest [2009] EWHC 2361″ construed an indemnity clause against third party claims in a license agreement in favour of the licensee, a computer games company.

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published practical guidance on the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) in an attempt to demystify the DPA and to clearly set out and explain a data controller’s responsibilities.

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The government has launched a consultation seeking views on the future of the Edited Electoral Register (the Edited Register).

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The next interactive gaming revolution will soon be ushered in by a wave of gesture detection control systems, where the player’s body controls the action.

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The importance of Licensing as a strategy for business alliance has increased over the years as a consequence of increased industrialization of which the fallout is diminishing real estate resources and increasing infrastructure costs

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The controversial clause of the Digital Economy Bill which allows the Secretary of State to make changes to copyright law using secondary legislation, is to be diluted after a severe backlash from consumer groups, members of the public, businesses and several members of the House of Lords.

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With the renewed global focus on the environment and on developing clean technologies, patenting of clean technologies has become more prolific.

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The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) is seeking comments from the public to assist in its annual “Special 301″ review of the adequacy and effectiveness of US trading partners’ protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR).

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Microsoft and the European commission have ended 10 years of fighting with an agreement over Microsoft’s alleged bundling of its Internet Explorer browser software with its Windows operating system.

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The voting rights allocation for the EGM on 24 February 2010 have been published.

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The communique from the January Board meeting is now available to view.

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