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UK Intellectual Property Office

Type: Organization

Name: UK Intellectual Property Office

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

World Intellectual Property Organization

IPO seeks views on WIPO plans to give visually impaired and print-disabled people better access to copyright works

The UK Intellectual Property Office is to hold an open meeting to discuss WIPO's draft legal instrument on copyright limitations and exceptions for visually impaired people and people with print disabilities. ... [Published Practical Law Company - May 14 2013]

Entities: World Intellectual Property Organization, IPOs, UK Intellectual Property Office

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Working Legal Lunch: lawyers, fortune-tellers, whatever

In the course of doing some research on trademarks on the UK Intellectual Property Office website we spotted that lawyers and other providers of legal services fall into the same tradmark class – No #45 – as undertakers, online dating services and providers ... [Published Legal Technology Insider - May 13 2013]

Entities: Insider, UK Intellectual Property Office, Trademark, Publisher, Chimpanzee

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

UK Intellectual Property Office responds on 'abolition of copyright' law

The UK Intellectual Property Office has issued a 'myth-busting' document about the effect on photographers of a newly-introduced law. The law includes new rules regulating the use of 'orphan works' - intellectual property whose copyright holder cannot ... [Published Digital Photography Review - May 09 2013]

Entities: UK Intellectual Property Office, United Kingdom, Intellectual Property, Royal Photographic Society

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Coming soon: 'superfast' patents 08/05/13

Bulletins & ezines: Coming soon: 'superfast' patentsFurther to Vince Cable’s announcement last year, the Government has published a consultation on a new ‘superfast’ patent processing service. Intellectual Property Minister Lord Younger confirmed that ... [Published Withy King - May 08 2013]

Entities: Patent, UK Intellectual Property Office, IPOs, Acceleration

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Discover and protect your Intellectual Property

You could be losing both money and opportunity if you fail to protect or overlook the value of your IP or Intellectual Property (copyright ownership can be transferred here).Because IP is usually an intangible and not able to be seen or touched, its value ... [Published B Daily - May 08 2013]

Entities: Intellectual Property, IPOs, UK Intellectual Property Office, Patent

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

Sandwich shop, The Cobfather, gets legal thrashing from Hollywood studio

A HOLLYWOOD studio used all its might to give a legal thrashing to the ex-owner of a small British sandwich shop called The Cobfather. Al Pacino in a scene from The Godfather II Paramount Pictures objected to his use of a trademark inspired by the puppet-string ... [Published Scottish Daily Express - May 04 2013]

Entities: Hollywood, David Rose, Al Pacino, Trademark, UK Intellectual Property Office

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

United Kingdom - 90-day patent; interest subject to tonnage tax

UK Intellectual Property Office’s consultation document on the proposed "90-day patent." ... [Published KPMG - May 03 2013]

Entities: Patent, Taxes, United Kingdom

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Lemsip wins ‘hug in a mug’ battle with Cup-a-Soup

A trademark adjudicator has ruled that the two products with similar slogans could co-exist happily because they are sold separately in shops and for different purposes. The row began in July 2011 when Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare Ltd, who own the Lemsip ... [Published London Evening Standard - May 03 2013]

Entities: Trademark, Adjudicator, Batchelors, UK Intellectual Property Office

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

Patents in the Fast Lane

Proposed ‘superfast’ patent service could help some companies to make the most of Patent Box but only at a price, says Withers & Rogers. The UK Intellectual Property Office’s (UKIPO) proposed ‘superfast’ patent service could help some companies to make ... [Published Pharma-Mag - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Patent, Paul Foot, UK Intellectual Property Office, Invention, United Kingdom

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 2 reports

TDK's digitally controlled load sharing patent approved

TDK Corporation is announcing that TDK-Lambda UK’s Load Sharing Apparatus patent application has been approved for grant by the UK Intellectual Property Office.Andy Skinner, Chief Technology Officer at TDK-Lambda EMEA, explains: “In systems that are required ... [Published MachineBuilding.net - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: Patent, UK Intellectual Property Office, TDK Corporation

First reported Apr 02 2013 - Updated Apr 02 2013 - 1 reports

Patent Thickets Reduce Innovation

In a report for the UK Intellectual Property Office, Bronwyn Hall et al., find that patent thickets exist in a number of technological fields and that thickets reduce innovation. We find overwhelming evidence in the literature that patent thickets ... [Published Marginal Revolution - Apr 02 2013]

Entities: Patent, Invention, UK Intellectual Property Office, European Patent Office, Patent Litigation

First reported Mar 25 2013 - Updated Mar 25 2013 - 1 reports

Overseas firms steal a march on UK in 'patent box' tax break hunt

The number of foreign firms applying for patents in the UK shot up last year, when tax cuts made it a favoured destination for pharmaceuticals and research and development industries – but British companies are missing out. George Osborne first announced ... [Published The Independent - Mar 25 2013]

Entities: Patent, United Kingdom, Research & Development, Trevor Baylis, UK Intellectual Property Office

Quotes

...Secretary of State at the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, has said there will be consultation to determine the fine details and that "the provision for orphan work licensing will be construed restrictively by the courts."

UK Intellectual Property Office responds on 'abolition of copyright' law [Published Digital Photography Review - May 09 2013]

Jokingly referring to a famous scene from the films, David Rose, whose music shop is opposite, said yesterday: "Are they going to put a horseâs head in his bed? Talk about a sledgehammer to crack a walnut."

Sandwich shop, The Cobfather, gets legal thrashing from Hollywood studio [Published Scottish Daily Express - May 04 2013]

The Bill introduces a statutory definition of a trade mark, which is "any sign that is capable of (a) being represented graphically, and (b) distinguishing the goods or services of one person from those of another person, and includes a certification trade mark and collective trade mark, unless otherwise specifically excepted"

The BVI Introduces New Trade Marks Bill, 2013 [Published Maples and Calder - May 03 2013]

Introduction of Unique Reference Codes ( "URC') and Authentication Codes"

Company Charges more> [Published Payne Hicks Beach - Apr 20 2013]

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Intellectual Property Bill published [Published Practical Law Company - May 15 2013]
IPO seeks views on WIPO plans to give visually ... [Published Practical Law Company - May 14 2013]
Working Legal Lunch: lawyers, fortune-tellers, ... [Published Legal Technology Insider - May 13 2013]
UK Intellectual Property Office responds on 'ab... [Published Digital Photography Review - May 09 2013]
Coming soon: 'superfast' patents 08/05/13 [Published Withy King - May 08 2013]
Discover and protect your Intellectual Property [Published B Daily - May 08 2013]
Sandwich shop, The Cobfather, gets legal thrash... [Published Scottish Daily Express - May 04 2013]
United Kingdom - 90-day patent; interest subjec... [Published KPMG - May 03 2013]
Lemsip wins ‘hug in a mug’ battle with Cup-a-Soup [Published London Evening Standard - May 03 2013]
The BVI Introduces New Trade Marks Bill, 2013 [Published Maples and Calder - May 03 2013]
IPO mediation service is relaunched [Published The Global Legal Post - Apr 29 2013]
Patents in the Fast Lane [Published Pharma-Mag - Apr 22 2013]
Company Charges more> [Published Payne Hicks Beach - Apr 20 2013]
The UK Patent Box – Clawing Some Money Back fro... [Published JD Supra - Apr 18 2013]
TDK's digitally controlled load sharing patent ... [Published MachineBuilding.net - Apr 16 2013]
New digitally controlled load sharing patent [Published Electronics Sourcing - Apr 16 2013]
Patent Thickets Reduce Innovation [Published Marginal Revolution - Apr 02 2013]
Overseas firms steal a march on UK in 'patent b... [Published The Independent - Mar 25 2013]
Study in Green: ICTSD Report Analyzes Fast Trac... [Published CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com - Mar 06 2013]
New patent law will help UK business [Published The Independent - Feb 17 2013]
Bio-AMD, Inc. Patent Application for Immunoassa... [Published Financial Services - Dec 28 2012]

Blogs

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Patents in the Fast Lane [Published Pharma-Mag - Apr 22 2013] Proposed ‘superfast’ patent service could help some companies to make the most of Patent Box but only at a price, says Withers & Rogers. The UK Intellectual Property Office’s (UKIPO) proposed ‘superfast’ patent service could help some companies to make ...
Patent Thickets Reduce Innovation [Published Marginal Revolution - Apr 02 2013] In a report for the UK Intellectual Property Office, Bronwyn Hall et al., find that patent thickets exist in a number of technological fields and that thickets reduce innovation. We find overwhelming evidence in the literature that patent thickets ...
Study in Green: ICTSD Report Analyzes Fast Trac... [Published CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com - Mar 06 2013] The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development just published a timely and informative report on the accelerated examination programs for green technology patent applications offered by a number of national patent offices around ...

Press Releases

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Bio-AMD, Inc. Patent Application for Immunoassa... [Published Financial Services - Dec 28 2012]