You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com]   Highlights this week included: DRM for streaming music dies a quiet death: (Electronic Frontier Foundation), (Techdirt) CAFC decides Apotex and Impax infringed AstraZeneca’s Prilosec patents: (Law360), (Patent Prospector), (Patent Docs), (GenericsWeb), CAFC upholds lower court’s decision finding USPTO was within its rights to subject a Cooper patent to… [read post]

: Peer International Corporation, Southern Music Publishing Co and Peermusic (UK) Ltd v Editoria Musical de Cuba (IP finance) Justice Kitchin upholds British Beer and Pub Association and British Hospitality Association appeal against decision of Copyright Tribunal on basis for calculation of fees which members have to pay for background music (IPKat) Contempt of court: the risks of false testimony in trade mark infringement proceedings: KJM Superbikes Ltd v Hinton (IPKat)… [read post]

: (Techdirt), User generated font community: (Techdirt), Copyright has stretched so far that it has broken – discussion of R Fleischer’s article in ‘Future of copyright’ series: (Techdirt), Antigua doesn’t see settlement with US over WTO plan to let it ignore US copyrights: (Techdirt)   Events 16 June: USPTO town hall meeting on industrial designs - Alexandria: (Daily Dose of IP), 16 June / 1 July: US PLI: ‘Prior art… [read post]

You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com]   Highlights this week included:   Senators Specter and Leahy express concern about ACTA Treaty (Techdirt) (Intellectual Property Watch) (IP Justice) (Michael Geist) (Public Knowledge) (Intellectual Property Watch) Commerce Department cites questionable stats, Chamber of Commerce uses them to ask Bush to sign PRO IP Bill into law (Techdirt) (Techdirt) (Public… [read post]