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Ownership of IP UWA v Gray

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • September 8 2009

Universitiesand companies dealing with universities in the commercialisation of intellectual propertywill need to review how universities have the rights to intellectual property developed by academics

Lab notebook entries save the day for University of Pittsburgh in an inventorship contest

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2009

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a district court’s finding that based on notebook entries evidencing early appreciation of the claimed inventions by two of the named inventors that five other researchers were improperly named as inventors on a patent

Duty to research does not amount to a duty to invent

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • September 7 2009

The Australian Full Federal Court has upheld the first instance decision of Justice French in University of Western Australia v Gray

Official marks: the added hurdle of showing adoption and use

  • McMillan LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 25 2007

Section 9(1)(n)(iii) of the Trade-marks Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. T-13, states that "no person shall adopt in connection with a business, as a trade-mark or otherwise, any mark consisting of, or so nearly resembling as to be likely to be mistaken for any badge, crest, emblem or mark adopted and used by any public authority, in Canada, as an official mark for wares or services in respect of which the Registrar has, at the request of the public authority, given public notice of adoption and use."

Government contractor immunity under 28 U.S.C. 1498

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 29 2007

In a decision addressing government contractor immunity, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that a patent infringement case against a government contractor in the district court was barred by 28 U.S.C. 1498

No “parallel” remedy under DPA where malicious falsehood fails

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 10 2009

In the case of Christopher John Quinton v Robin Heys Peirce, the High Court has refused to interpret the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) in such a way as to provide a "parallel" remedy for the claimant where his claim for malicious falsehood failed

Judge Sotomayor’s record on copyright and First Amendment issues

  • Jenner & Block
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 11 2009

Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s recent nomination to the United States Supreme Court has attracted substantial attention in the business community

State university waives Eleventh Amendment immunity

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 30 2007

Addressing the issue of whether a state university can waive its Eleventh Amendment immunity by expressly agreeing to federal jurisdiction in an agreement, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s holding that the University of Massachusetts at Lowell (the University) waived its immunity by agreeing to submit to jurisdiction in an appropriate federal court

Patent suit brings question of immunity before Supreme Court

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 11 2008

The Supreme Court may soon consider an issue of sovereign immunity that, depending on the outcome, could open the door to private patent holder lawsuits against state governments

"Running on empty"? - Jackson Browne files suit against John McCain

  • Duane Morris LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 21 2008

Singer and songwriter Jackson Browne is not amused that his song "Running On Empty" has been used in a television commercial for John McCain and against Barack Obama

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