Standards contributors stressed their heavy reliance on licensing income while product manufacturers expressed frustration at the difficulty of calculating total SEP licensing costs
TIPO’s new pilot programme allows certain applicants to swiftly secure protection for their design patents, facilitates rapid responses to counterfeit designs and assists award winners and start-ups to obtain patent rights.
How to determine compensation amounts and effectively protect rights holders’ interests is a critical point of concern. It is therefore vital to analyse patent infringement litigation cases that have awarded high compensation and which kinds of claims and evidence have been well received by Chinese courts.
Just one month until IP leaders will gather in Seoul for an agenda tackling policy developments, market trends, and commercial pressures
20 March 2023
Opinion: Popular attacks on America’s life sciences patent system are highly misleading
18 March 2023
Chief IP officers at large and small companies – especially life sciences – are closely watching the case which promises to settle debate about what comprises sufficient enablement under Section 112
15 March 2023
The Delhi High Court has had to raise natural justice principles with the Patent Office in multiple 2022 cases, a crucial reminder that parties must be provided with fair opportunities and rulings backed with reasonable explanations.
15 March 2023
Senators Chris Coons and Thom Tillis – both pro-patentee – take the lead but it doesn’t mean bills will pass
14 March 2023
Saturday Opinion: USPTO Director Kathi Vidal’s sanctions are a good start, but more must be done to curb untoward behaviour going forward
11 March 2023
Response to IPQC continues a long-running and bitter feud between leadership and staff
10 March 2023
Ethical and transparent partnerships can help resolve pressing issues all while furthering a company’s goals and interests
08 March 2023
In what can be seen as a relief for patent holders, the new disproportionality exception for the enforcement of patent injunctions has left the German district courts' strict approach to injunctions unchanged.
08 March 2023
Under the Greek Patent Law, European patent applicants can enjoy provisional protection against potential infringers, so long as they successfully carry out certain formalities and can justify that their request is sufficiently urgent.
08 March 2023
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