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(0 comments) De brouwer vindt dat het Filou-bier te hard op zijn Duvel-bier lijkt, maar de rechter denkt daar anders over.
De Belgische brouwer Duvel Moortgat heeft een rechtszaak in hoger beroep verloren tegen Van Honsebrouck Brouwerij, dat bekend is van bieren als Kasteel, Brigand en Filou.
(86 hits) (0 comments) This patent battle between Apple and Samsung is the lawsuit that just won’t go away.
Since 2011, the two smartphone giants have been fighting over five patents due to the claim that Samsung infringed on Apple’s intellectual property when it made a handful of devices including the original Galaxy S 4G, the Galaxy S2, and the Droid Charge.
In earlier hearings, the court had already determined Samsung did infringe on two of the utility patents in question, which was determined by the jury in the most recent trial to be worth a fine of $5.3 million.
However, the more contentious part of the lawsuit involves the three design patents (1, 2, 3) in question, which describe a device with a black front, rounded rectangular corners, similarly curved surrounding bezels, and a colorful grid of icons.
(72 hits) (0 comments) (80 hits) (0 comments) De Standaard 25 april 2018
...De lijst van innovatieve universiteiten werd opgesteld in samenwerking met Clarivate Analytics. Er werd voornamelijk rekening gehouden met patenten en wetenschappelijke verwijzingen...
(70 hits) (0 comments) De Tijd 27 april 2018 (Tom Michielsen, Redacteur Ondernemen) België is een innovatiekampioen in de wereld van plastics, chemicaliën, geneesmiddelen en vaccins. Met 417 toegekende patenten in 2017 staan de Belgische chemie en farma op de elfde plaats in de wereld.
Van de 1.215 toegekende Belgische patenten ging een derde (34%) naar de chemie. Nergens ter wereld is dat aandeel zo groot. Biotech (20%), fijnchemie (18%), geneesmiddelen (14%) en kunststoffen (polymeren, composieten) nemen het grootste deel voor hun rekening.
(130 hits) (0 comments) Het Europees Octrooibureau heeft zijn statistieken voor 2017 gepubliceerd. Het aantal octrooiaanvragen is met 3,9 procent gestegen tot een nieuw record van 165.590. België verliest een plaatsje in de hitlijst en eindigt dertiende met 2155 aanvragen.
(145 hits) (0 comments) The Broad Institute has been dealt a big blow in its battle for CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property, with the European Patent Office revoking one of its patents.
CRISPR/Cas9 has been hailed as the ‘scientific discovery of the century’ due to its capacity to modify the genome for the treatment of genetic diseases. The Broad Institute, set up by MIT and Harvard in 2004 to use genomics to improve human health, successfully obtained a patent from the US Patent Office for its use in eukaryotes. However, the European Patent Office (EPO) has revoked the first of several patents obtained by the Broad Institute, citing a clear lack of novelty.
(264 hits) (0 comments) Bank of America has more blockchain-related patents than any other firm in the U.S., according to a new report by New York-based law firm EnvisionIP.
According to the report, Bank of America has 43 patents while Mastercard and IBM have 27 each, followed by 14 from Fidelity.
The report counted a total of 1,045 blockchain related patents. Of this number, about 60% of patents were filed by blockchain companies, while the financial services sector accounted for 20%.
Read more at Finextra and Payments Source.
(239 hits) (0 comments) A review of 2017 by Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog in 10 patent stories.
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China's State Intellectual Property Office received the highest number of patent applications in 2016, a record total of 1.3 million. It was followed by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (605,571), the Japan Patent Office (318,381), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (208,830) and the European Patent Office (159,358). On a per-capita basis, patent filings in China ranked behind those in Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the U.S.
(313 hits) (0 comments) The USPTO has finalized a new set of fees: Final Rules.
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(223 hits) (0 comments) (289 hits) (0 comments) (324 hits) (0 comments) (442 hits) (0 comments) The parties did not appeal after the judgment. Typical Significance This is a novel and typical case of trademark infringement and unfair competition dispute with system establishment, full imitation, and comprehensive infringement. This case involves many legal issues, and the infringement acts found have the following obvious characteristics:
