We use cookies to customise content for your subscription and for analytics.
If you continue to browse Lexology, we will assume that you are happy to receive all our cookies. For further information please read our Cookie Policy.
Lexology logo
  Request new password

Search results

Order by most recent / most popular / relevance

Results: 1-5 of 5

Peer to peer (P2P) legislation

  • Abril Abogados
  • -
  • Canada, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • December 13 2012

Since 2006, when the first European Regulation against illegal downloading was enacted by Finland, most of EU Member States have followed the example

The State Intellectual Property Office of China launches work-sharing initiatives with Japan and US patent offices

  • Tsai Lee & Chen
  • -
  • China, Japan, USA
  • -
  • January 10 2012

Commencing on November 1, 2001, the State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO) launched a one-year pilot Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) with the Japanese Patent Office (JPO

Fast-track examination of patent applications under the new PCT-Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program

  • Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Japan, USA
  • -
  • February 2 2010

Patent applicants can now take advantage of a new procedure that has the potential to greatly reduce the amount of time required by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office (EPO), or the Japan Patent Office (JPO) to issue a patent on an application

Ownership of a patent may be changed by operation of law such as state probate law or Japanese law

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
  • -
  • Japan, USA
  • -
  • April 30 2008

In Akazawa v. Link New Technology International, Inc., No. 07-1184 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 31, 2008), the Federal Circuit vacated the district court’s grant of SJ to Link New Technology International, Inc. (“Link”) based on lack of standing and remanded

Heir’s right to a patent not a question of federal law

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • Japan, USA
  • -
  • April 28 2008

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, distinguishing its recent announcement that federal law controls standing determinations in patent cases, held that Japanese intestacy law controlled the issue of whether title to a U.S. patent had transferred to an heir