The federal Circuit reversed the District Court’s jury instruction that the term “portable” and “mobile” should be given their “plain and ordinary meaning”. During claim construction at District Court’s, Eon argued that “portable” and “mobile” did not need construction and that the terms could simply be given their plain and ordinary meaning. Silver Springs [...]
For nearly half a century, Pedro Roffe has been a catalyst and an influential leader in global debates shaping today’s international intellectual property system, particularly its interface with a range of issues such as technology transfer, trade, development, investment and public health. At the Secretariat of United Nation Conference on Trade and Development, where [...]
In a judgment this week, the European Court of Justice ruled that “the sale of multimedia player which enables films that are available illegally on the internet to be viewed easily and for free on a television screen could constitute an infringement of copyright. In the case referred to the Luxembourg Court from the [...]
The global economic survey report 2016, ranked cyber crime as the second most reported economic crime during the year. But some questions remain to about how under reported cyber crime is particularly hacking. In some instances companies do not seem to even know they were hacked until well after the fact, and in other [...]
A reactor which converts carbon dioxide into ethanol, a method for detection of pesticides and contaminant in food and renewable leather created from bacteria won the heart of the jury. After adoption of 2030 SDGs the UN economic commission of Europe (UNECE) sought to show how innovative enterprises can contribute to address today’s social [...]
Antony Taubman, director of the World Trade Organization Intellectual Property Division, has been in a good position to view the world and intellectual property for some time. Today, designated as World IP Day, we caught up with him to ask his views on the theme this year. For those of us working on the [...]
