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06 Mar 2013
Standard-essential patent owners should be required to try and settle licensing disputes out of court in a bid to restrict the affects of litigation on market innovation, three prominent economists have said.
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05 Mar 2013
Amazon did not infringe on a watch maker's trade mark rights by displaying results for rivals' products when consumers had searched for the watch maker's trade marked goods, a US court has ruled.
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01 Mar 2013
New copyright laws backed by German MPs on Friday will create years of legal uncertainty in the country, an expert has said.
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27 Feb 2013
The Government will make changes to UK legislation in a way which it said will allow pharmaceutical companies to conduct clinical drugs testing without infringing others' patent rights.
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21 Feb 2013
A "highly unusual" additional parliamentary hearing on proposed changes to German copyright law is a sign that there is increasing opposition to the publisher-driven plans, an expert has said.
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20 Feb 2013
Ministers from 24 EU countries have signed an agreement that paves the way for a new unified patent court framework to be created.
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19 Feb 2013
Posting a link to copyrighted content should not be regarded as a communication of that work to the public, a group of leading academics has said.
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15 Feb 2013
Google has accused the UK's largest telecommunications provider BT of infringing its rights in relation to four patents the internet giant owns.
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15 Feb 2013
Businesses can retain the right to use copyrighted software under sub-licences awarded by head-licensees in circumstances where those head-licensees are subject of a termination or become insolvent, the High Court has said.
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14 Feb 2013
US software giant Oracle has called on the US Court of Appeals to overturn a district court ruling in which Google was found not to have infringed the company's copyrights in its proprietary software.
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