Microsoft Technology Licensing, the company's patent-licensing arm, has signed a new agreement with Casio Computer Co. Ltd. The seemingly strange piece of this April 3 pact? The agreement between the two "includes broad coverage for smartwatch technologies," according to the Microsoft press release. Microsoft is believed to have exited completely the fitness band market [...]
In the bid to reduce patent litigation, Google has introduced new agreement called PAX, that aims to reduce patent infringement woes. All the member who sign up for PAX, essentially allows others to use their patented property for free. Google feels that this free sharing of patents will notably reducing lawsuits, create less trouble [...]
How long should proceedings before EPO ideally take? Admitted this is a tricky question because various stakeholders’ will usually have different interests and thoughts so as to what the “right” or ideal “speed” is. Let us tackle this question by beginning with a simple distinction. In ex-parte proceedings, the main stakeholder is the applicant [...]
Over past few weeks, this moggy has been scampering between several conference and events about Brexit and Intellectual Property, and the progress of unitary patent and unified patent court. Back in the days it was announced that Tim Moss would be the new Chief Executive of UK IPO. Laura Starrs, set out what the [...]
The United States was once again the top ranked country for intellectual property protection in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s annual Global IP Index for 2017, but the rankings were closer than ever. Indeed, in 2017 the U.S., UK, Japan, and European Union (EU) economies ranked more closely together than ever before, which was no [...]
On Wednesday, March 22nd, Redmond, WA-based consumer hardware and software company Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced that the company had entered into a new patent licensing agreement with Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE:TM). The licensing agreement, which covers patents directed at connected car technologies, is the latest partnership between these two companies seeking to increase entertainment and autonomous tech [...]
