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Academic dilemma? Antipodean and New World directions on the ownership of inventions

Dr David B Cox is a Partner with Jackson McDonald Lawyers, Perth, Australia. He previously worked in the biomedical research industry.
This article examines patent entitlement and invention assignment in light of the recent University of Western [...]

The uneasy role of trade marks in free and open source software: you can share my code, but you can’t share my brand

Pamela S. Chestek is Senior IP Attorney for Red Hat, Inc. and is trade mark counsel for the Red Hat, Fedora and JBoss brands, all open source software brands.
In broad terms, free and open source software (FOSS) is software where the copyright in the [...]

Using alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to resolve patent disputes

Russell Levine is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP with over 25 years of experience in IP litigation and licensing and in the mediation and arbitration of patent disputes. Matthew Topic is a senior IP litigation associate at Kirkland & Ellis [...]



On the road to commercialization of patents in India

Sunita K Sreedharan, Advocate and Patent Agent is the CEO of SKS Law Associates, a Delhi-based law practice that provides legal services in all areas of intellectual property law.
The Indian Patent Act 1970 has come a long way from its genesis in the [...]

Mind the gap: options to plug the gaps in hastily concluded IP licences

Ideally, IP licences would always clearly and accurately record the agreement reached between licensor and licensee.
However, in reality various factors can conspire against achievement of this aim, including commercial pressures – IP licences will [...]

Ecolabels: ownership, use, and the public interest

Dr Jeffrey Belson is regulatory Manager at Hewlett-Packard Company, Indigo Digital Press Division.
This article explores a number of legal and commercial issues relating to ecolabels, which are signs used with products to indicate their environmental [...]

Changes to domain names and protecting your rights

On 12 January 2012, the first round of applications for new generic Top-Level Domains (‘gTLDs’) opens. The gTLDs launched by ICANN enable the possibility for generic top-level domain names and new non-English character-based international [...]

Lack of evidence fails trade mark opposition in India

The Delhi High Court dismissed a petition to oppose a trade mark application, filed by Champagne Moet & Chandon (M & C), because the petitioner failed to produce necessary and satisfactory evidence to corroborate the contention as to its use [...]