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Games (and songs) without frontiers

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 16 2012

The Stop Online Piracy Act (“SOPA”) was a United States bill introduced to extend the reach of U.S. law to combat online trafficking of intellectual property and counterfeit goods outside U.S. jurisdiction

Battle of the books

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • July 3 2009

Two disputes involving high profile novels have recently brought copyright infringement to the fore in the international media

Dell and Psion in fight for the right to "Netbook"

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 4 2009

Psion Teklogix Inc, which describes itself as a company that "specializes in making mobile workers more productive", faces the prospect of being a victim of its own success on the one hand and its failure to take steps to protect that success on the other

Lucasfilm lays claim to the storm trooper legions

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • May 7 2008

Imagine the scene: You are in a distinctly non-space age courtroom in London

The patentability of stem cells: WARF's success and failure on opposite sides of the Atlantic

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 31 2008

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) has had three of its patents in relation to stem cells (and in particular, methods of isolation) upheld by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO

Shorter patent application times promised as Patent Prosecution Highway is launched

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • October 5 2007

The United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) have begun a twelve-month pilot scheme designed to expedite the processing of patent applications in the United Kingdom and the United States