Category: Insights

Look at the Clouds! It is Lightning – or is it a Silver Lining?

Look at the Clouds! It is Lightning – or is it a Silver Lining? Outsourcing is no new invention. However,

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Trademark Infringements in Social Networks

Trademark Infringements in Social Networks Last year, in 2010, Facebook passed 500 million users. That’s more than the population

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Playing the system: the annoyances of Russian utility models

Playing the system: the annoyances of Russian utility models A fact: A Russian utility model must be new over

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Supplementary protection for combination products heading for setback at the CJ of the EU

Supplementary protection for combination products heading for setback at the Court of Justice of the EU On 13 July

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When will the Marketing Director and the Board start evaluating trademarks in actual money?

When will the Marketing Director and the Board start evaluating trademarks in actual money? Hopefully very soon, since the

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Software inventions: The BGH confirms examination approach

Software inventions: The BGH confirms examination approach   By its judgment in X ZR 121/09 (Webseitenanzeige), the German Federal

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Counterfeit pharmaceuticals case settled without main hearing

Counterfeit pharmaceuticals case settled without main hearing In April 2010 Eli Lilly and Company (“Lilly”), the manufacturer of the

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Want your patent granted? Use a patent attorney!

As patent attorneys, we have of course always known it, or at least suspected it, but now we have

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A Favourite in Trademark Law: Repackaging – now gassy

Danish courts are traditionally reluctant to ask preliminary questions on the interpretation of EU-legislation. Recently, the Supreme Court has done so,

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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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