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JIPLP Express
A rapid-read overview of the main items in this issue
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Patents
Advanced therapies and the outer limits of DNA regulation: new horizons for patents or a scaffold too far? This Regulation seeks to regulate existing and future advanced therapy medicinal products intended for the market in Member States, being either prepared industrially or manufactured by a method involving an industrial process, and introduces additional provisions to those laid down in the pharmaceutical legislation Directive 2001/83. (p. 210)
Federal Circuit affirms Nilssen's 15 patents unenforceable for inequitable conduct. The US Federal Circuit affirmed the District Court finding; it did not abuse its discretion in holding 15 of Nilssen's patents unenforceable due to his intentional withholding of material information during patent prosecution from the US Patent Office (USPTO). (p. 212)
Trade marks
Court in Argentina holds that HARRODS trade marks cannot co-exist. In October 2007, Chamber I of the Federal Civil and Commercial Chamber of Appeals, Buenos
Copyright
Personality rights and publicity rights
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Managing generic competition and patent strategies in the pharmaceutical industry (p. 226)
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Innocent infringement and the Community unregistered design right: the position in the UK and Ireland (p. 236)
Sealing the cracks: a proposal to update the anti-cybersquatting regime to combat advertising-based cybersquatting (p. 246)
Swiss trade marks practice on misleading geographical indications (p. 262)