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Dennis Voerman is the Dutch creator of a successful cheese-based spread named Heks’nkaas. In 2011, he assigned to a company called Levola the copyright relating to the recipe, its method of preparation and the taste features of his product. 20 October 2017
Patents
Amazon has been granted a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office for a drone that land on top of an electric car and wirelessly charge it. 20 October 2017
Trademarks
Sometimes winning a lawsuit may not be the best business outcome in an IP matter, said panellists at AIPLA’s 120th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on Thursday. 20 October 2017
Patents
This week WIPR reported on several important rulings including from Germany’s Supreme Court, Europe’s highest court and the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Below we explain why they are important for IP lawyers. 20 October 2017
Patents
A staff union at the European Patent Office has written to António Campinos, the next president of the organisation, saying his appointment shows a desire to re-establish harmonious conditions with management. 20 October 2017
Patents
iLife Technologies has asked a US district court to award an extra $15 million in interest to the $10 million it won against Nintendo of America for patent infringement. 20 October 2017
Copyright
Microsoft has sued a Delaware-based computer software company for allegedly pirating its software and distributing it without permission. 20 October 2017
Jurisdiction reports
In a landmark decision on July 11, 2017, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) for the first time confirmed the grant of a compulsory licence under the German Patent Act (docket no. X ZB 2/17). 20 October 2017
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German law firm Maiwald has announced that Axel Neidlein has joined the firm’s Dusseldorf office as a partner. 19 October 2017
Patents
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has followed the Supreme Court’s landmark Alice v CLS Bank judgment to affirm a lower court ruling that had invalidated four patents allegedly infringed by Chicago’s transport authority. 19 October 2017
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