A French national, he succeeds Alison Brimelow of the UK, who has headed the EPO since July 2007. (source: EPO.org) – Share on Twitter – Share on Facebook – RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

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SAN MATEO, CA. – Avistar Communications Corp. today announced in a press release that it has been granted a US patent (US 7,738,492) in practical real-time bandwidth management, which increasingly is a critical feature in successful unified communicati…

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HR practitioners have been living fairly comfortably with the data protection enforcement regime for many years, even after the storm of data security problems that hit the UK in recent years.

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Bilski et al. v. Kappos, slip op., No. 08-964, 561 U.S. ____ (Jun. 28, 2010) In Bilski v. Kappos, the Supreme Court affirmed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s decision, holding that claims describing “a series of steps instructing how…

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The U.S. Supreme Court today (June 28, 2010) handed down its highly-anticipated opinion in the case of Bilski v. Kappos, Case No. 08-964.

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Today the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision1 in Bilski v. Kappos By a 5-4 vote, the United States Supreme Court has rejected the notion that business methods are categorically unpatentable.

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On June 28, 2010, the United States Supreme Court issued its long-awaited judgment in Bilski v. Kappos, which deals with important questions surrounding the patentability of business methods and other subject matter, such as software and innovative pro…

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Today, the United States Supreme Court ruled in “Bilski v. Kappos” (Case No. 08-964) that some business methods may be eligible for patent protection under United States law.

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The outgoing EPO President gave her final speech to the Administrative Council today. (source: EPO.org) – Share on Twitter – Share on Facebook – RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

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PALM CITY, Fla. – Information Systems Associates Inc., a datacenter optimization software, services and solutions company, announced in a press release that the US Patent and Trademark Office has recently issued a patent for the Company’s On Site Physi…

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MUNICH – MVTec Software GmbH, Munich (Germany), is pleased to announced in a press release that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has cancelled all claims of US Patent No. 6,850,646 that Cognex Corporation has asserted against MVTec. Cognex ha…

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The EPO Board of Appeal (BoA) rejected claims to functionally defined chemical compounds, which were to be identified via a new research tool using a screening method described in the patent.

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During the week of 14 to 18 June 2010, PCT Member states considered proposals to improve the PCT potential contribution to higher quality and more efficiently granted patents at the national/regional level.

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The Bilski case presented the Supreme Court with an opportunity to eliminate business methods from the scope of patentable subject matter.

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The June 23, 2010 decision by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Viacom’s $1 billion copyright action against YouTube holds that YouTube is not liable for contributory copyright infringement and need not police its site to…

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The Supreme Court has now ruled in the long awaited case of Bilski v. Kappos, holding that the inventors’ claimed methods for hedging “consumption risk” in a business transaction were unpatentable.

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The Court of Appeal has recently considered a High Court decision of January 2010 that rejected Medeva’s application for a Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) in relation to its combined vaccine product.

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In view of continuing globalization, capturing new markets and expanding presence thereon recently became a top priority for all companies. Franchising is one of the possible options of such “expansion”.

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The US Supreme Court has issued its decision on the long-awaited Bilski case, confirming the broad range of patentable subject matter in the US.

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The Director General of the Danish Patent and Trademark Office was unanimously elected as Chairman at the Administrative Council’s 124th meeting. (source: EPO.org) – Share on Twitter – Share on Facebook – RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

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