As the tech and business community try to read the tea leaves behind various groups being left out (Apache) and those who just squeezed in (Google), it seemed appropriate to take a look at the legal ramifications of the new draft. So we asked our IP Counsel, Richard Wilder, to [...]
The Financial Times reports that “[d]efending intellectual property in the EU may get cheaper, quicker and more efficient under plans to streamline the patent regime outlined by the European Commission on Tuesday. According to the Los Angeles Times, the “Chinese police seized nearly 2 million fake CDs and DVDs when [...]
GPLv3: The Legal Risks of Overreaching for Third Party Patent Rights The FSF has now released the Discussion Draft 3 of GPLv3, adding paragraphs four and five to Section 11 for the stated purpose of blocking the recent patent cooperation agreement between Novell and Microsoft and other agreements like it, [...]
Yahoo!News has an op-ed by Pat Cox in which he points out that “Europe’s Microsoft case goes too far”, with the European Commission in effect declaring “war on accepted international and European conventions regarding intellectual property rights, applying instead its own test (determined by the Directorate General for Competition) of [...]
STATEMENT BY JONATHAN ZUCK, PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGY Today, the European Commission revealed its vision for improving the patent system in Europe, including a proposal for a unified EU patent judiciary. Jonathan Zuck, President of the Association for Competitive Technology, said: “Today’s Communication is a long awaited [...]