Friday Intelligence Round-Up

1 Design cases for all, but dark marks for the Swedes

's friend David Musker has informed him that OHIM has straightaway established a spider web page giving access to decisions on Community designs past times national Community Design Courts. You tin observe it here. There are only v cases hence far, 3 from the Netherlands as well as 2 from Sweden, inwards Dutch as well as Swedish respectively.

The identities of the Swedish lawyers concerned receive got been erased past times a thick dark marker, non (the IPKat hopes) because of their functioning inwards the proceedings but out of a feel of deep modesty ...


2 JIPLP on the way

The Journal of Intellectual Property Law as well as Practice (JIPLP), to endure published past times Oxford University Press, is good on the means towards its Nov launch. Edited past times IPKat's articulation blogmeister Jeremy, JIPLP is conceived equally a punchy, attractive but deadly serious refereed periodical for intellectual belongings practitioners as well as rights owners -- as well as its articles volition endure available online fifty-fifty earlier publication.

JIPLP can't guarantee to encompass every topic, but it wants to answer to the genuine interests as well as concerns of the IP periodical reading world so, if at that spot are whatever topics that y'all would similar to run across featured inwards JIPLP, delight contact Jeremy here and allow him know.


3 Patent 'land-grab' scaremongering

has come upwardly across this wonderful slice of hyperbole inwards ZDNet:

"Recent moves past times intellectual belongings holdings outfits similar Acacia Research have sparked a patent reason grabbing epidemic that has threatened to accelerate the extinction of all life on basis unless the charter of the Kyoto Treaty is expanded to include other, to a greater extent than pressing matters that threaten the Earth's ecosytem.

Exclaiming "If that five-year onetime punk inwards Minnesota tin patent swinging sideways, as well as then why can't I patent the colouring red?!", the unremarkably colouring blind Steve Gillmor ran to the U.S. of A. of America Patent as well as Trademark Office afterwards he realized he could in all probability patent the foreign paint creeping upwardly his neck. Apparently his blood clitoris per unit of measurement area responded adversely to something he read inwards the blogosphere. Pointing to a throbbing jugular surrounded past times glowing carmine skin, Gillmor told a 67 year-old patent examiner who hasn't left his operate since the 1970s that he conducted a thorough prior fine art search on the colouring red, but came upwardly empty handed. The examiner momentarily extracted his caput from around sand, handed Gillmor a used Dunkin Donuts-branded napkin as well as instructed Gillmor to pull the excogitation inwards x words or less, but solely afterwards pre-applying a USPTO seal of approving to the napkin".

is ever amused past times skilful writing, but the truth of the thing is that the patent organization is no land-grab: the novelty as well as inventive footstep requirements hateful that patent protection creates novel territories but does non reallocate onetime ones. The fact that the US patent organization grants hence many bizarre as well as nearly for sure invalid patents is a reflection on the refusal of that jurisdiction to align its practices alongside the vast bulk of non-US countries that construct upwardly an obscure corner of the planet called "The Rest of the World".


4 EuropaBio "Disappointed"

This from researchresearch.com: EuropaBio, the European association for bioindustries, regrets that the European Commission has non taken a firmer stand upwardly on harmonising rules for patenting human deoxyribonucleic acid sequences across European Union fellow member states. In its 2nd study on the European Union Biotechnology Patents Directive it states:

“The principal objective for introducing the directive inwards 1988 as well as inwards 1995 was to harmonise the patent laws of the European Union fellow member states inwards abide by of biotechnological inventions as well as clarify sure aspects inwards this abide by inwards gild to back upwardly the internal market. We receive got to conclude that the actual number is a province of affairs alongside to a greater extent than disharmony than ever".

agrees as well as notes that this province of affairs parallels that of the patenting of computer-implemented inventions. In both cases the fence over how to harmonise has been drowned past times the larger fence equally to whether, as well as if hence to what extent, protection should endure granted at all.