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Licensing by Acquisition: The High-Stakes Dispute Over Whether Intel is Licensed to VLSI’s Patents

Patently-O

The Federal Circuit has issued an interesting nonprecedential order in In re VLSI Technology LLC , denying VLSI’s petition for a writ of mandamus that sought to reverse a district court order allowing Intel to amend its answer to assert a declaratory judgment counterclaim regarding a patent license defense.

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Compulsory licensing for expensive medicines: KCE report

SpicyIP

The Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE) recently released an interesting report titled ‘Compulsory licensing for expensive medicines’. Ordinarily, patentees voluntarily decide whether or not and on what conditions to grant licenses to third parties. Failing which, a compulsory license can be issued. Natco Pharma Ltd.

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I Forgot! Retroactive Foreign Filing License Petitions for U.S. Inventors

LexBlog IP

For a patentee filing for patent protection regarding an invention made in the United States, a license is required before filing any application for a patent in a foreign country. Failure to get a foreign filing license can lead to invalidation of subsequently granted patents (35 U.S.C. Custom Blinds & Components , 2016 U.S.

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Doing What the Court Says- DPIIT withdraws notification extending 31D to Online Streaming

SpicyIP

Image from here The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) yesterday i.e. 21 st August 2024 issued an Office Memorandum (OM), notifying the withdrawal of OM dated 5 th September 2016, which extended the scope of Section 31D of the Copyright Act to Internet Transmissions.

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Intersection of Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law with respect to Cross Licensing Agreements

IIPRD

Hence, the concept of cross licensing agreement has originated with the intent to help various organizations in sharing patent licenses along with their rights and liabilities leading to their easier access to masses and reduction of monopolistic market tendencies. Cross-licensing agreements can both restrain and advance competition.

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Ensuring Access to TB drugs: Is Compulsory License the Way?

SpicyIP

He has also blogged for us in the past and was the SpicyIP Fellow for 2016. Ensuring Access to TB drugs: Is Compulsory License the Way? The petitioners in the Meera Yadav case highlight that between January 2016-May 2020, 11427 patients have died of MDR-TB. Y Chandrachud (2020-21) and is a Rhodes Scholar (2018). image from here.

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Recording a license agreement in the EU requires consent of the currently registered trade mark owner

The IPKat

Recording a license agreement concerning an EU trade mark is not mandatory but has several benefits (see the EUIPO’s trade mark Guidelines ): The license has effects vis-à-vis third parties ( Art. Background Brandavid Oy (‘Brandavid’) owned three EU trade marks, which it licensed exclusively to Oy Shaman Spirits Ltd.