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JIPLP Express
A rapid-read overview of the main items in this issue
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Patents
EPO decision on computer-implemented inventions and the treatment of non-technical aspects. This decision considers how to treat non-technical features in an assessment of inventive step in the field of computer-implemented inventions. (p. 352)
Trade marks
Out of circulation: no trade mark infringement of goods in transit. Pharmaceutical goods brought into the UK under an inward processing procedure from Turkey for distribution to US customers were not in free circulation in the UK and so were not infringing UK trade mark rights. (p. 353)
Boxing clever or rope-a-dope? The drugs repackaging rumble is going the distance. The Court of Appeal for England and Wales resumed, following judgment by the European Court of Justice (the ECJ) in April 2007 on questions it had referred to the ECJ, the hearing of certain appeals and cross-appeals against two High Court decisions concerning alleged trade mark infringement through co-branding or
Copyright
General
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A new era in the adjudication of IP cases in Taiwan (p. 364)
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Supreme Court opens courthouse door to more patent challenges, but limitations on declaratory judgment jurisdiction remain (p. 369)
Some clarity, some confusion: 12 P&G v Reckitt Benckiser decisions help explain registered Community designs (p. 376)
Why America needs a European fashion police (p. 386)
Legal questions about illegal art (p. 393)
Duration of patent protection: does one size fit all? (p. 402)