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The EPO starts cooperation with Google to provide machine translation of patents

The EPO starts cooperation with Google to provide machine translation of patents On 24 March, the EPO and Google

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Supplementary protection certificates for plant protection products

11 November 2010 the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a preliminary ruling in the case C-229/09

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Software piracy in China declining

survey released by the State IP Office reveals that the percentage of pirated software installed on Chinese computers decreases

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IP in China? It’s not all bad

Recent statistics on the outcomes of reported IP litigations in the most important courts in China are encouraging: The

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The language of proceedings used before the EPO can never be changed

The language of proceedings used before the EPO can never be changed – this includes the language used before the

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Changes to the German Intellectual Property Laws

A series of changes to the German intellectual property laws was recently passed by the German parliament. The reforms

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Enforcement in the East II – Why should I patent in Russia?

This is a second blog post on patent enforcement in Eastern countries. Having already discussed China, we now turn

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Enforcement in the East I: What’s the use of a Chinese patent?

In recent years, many of the former planned economies in the East have put state-of-the-art IPR legislation in place.

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Are trademarks protected on the Internet?

That’s a question I am often asked by my clients. Every time new top domains are launched many clients

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Recent Trends in Chinese IP enforcement

As has previously been mentioned on this blog, Schneider Electric Low Voltage (Tianjin) Co. Ltd., a joint venture of

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