Intellectual Property Rights
IIMSAM Goodwill Ambassador Gets Man of the Year 2008 Award in Jordan
Special to ag-IP-news Agency DOHA - The Director of the Regional Office and Goodwill Ambassador of the Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro-algae Spirulina against Malnutrition (IIMSAM), a Permanent Observer to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, Dr. Naseer Shahir Homoud has been honored with the prestigious ‘Man of the Year' Award for Business and Humanitarian Endeavour... More »
AVI BioPharma Strengthens Its Patent Position in RNA Therapeutics
PORTLAND, OR - AVI BioPharma Inc. (AVII), a developer of RNA–based drugs, announced the issuance of a US patent protecting the composition of matter of its RNA–based therapeutic agent AVI–5126. A press release by the company stated that the patent “Compositions for Enhancing Transport of Molecules Into Cells” (US Patent No. 7,468,418) claims compositions and methods for AVI–5126, a PPMO (peptide–... More »
Revamped Whois Inaccuracy Reporting System Goes Live
MARINA DEL REY, CA - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced in a press release that a redesigned system for receiving reports of inaccurate domain name registration data has gone live on December 19, 2008. The Whois Data Problem Report System (WDPRS) has a number of advantages over the previous system, which was first introduced in 2002. Among them are: •&... More »
Proposed .AERO Sponsorship Agreement Posted for Public Comment
MARINA DEL, REY, CA - The proposed .AERO Sponsorship Agreement is posted for public comment and appendices can be viewed on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) website. According to a press release by ICANN, the current agreement was due to expire on December 17, 2006 and was renewed a number of times, similarly to the other proof-of-concept sTLDs, to permit adequate t... More »
KCI Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Convatec and Boehringer
SAN ANTONIO - Kinetic Concepts Inc. (KCI) announced in a press release that, together with Wake Forest University Health Sciences, it has filed a patent infringement suit against Convatec Inc., Boehringer Wound Systems LLC and Boehringer Technologies L.P. in Federal District Court in the Middle District of North Carolina. KCI filed the lawsuit against Convatec and Boehringer for the commercializa... More »
ICANN Announces Implementation Plan for New Consensus Policy
MARINA DEL REY, CA - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced on December 17, 2008 the implementation plan for the new Add Grace Period (AGP) Limits Policy adopted by the ICANN Board on June 26, 2008. According to a press release by ICANN, a grace period is a specified number of calendar days following a gTLD registry operation in which the operation may be r... More »
TAG-Org Participates in the Third Internet Governance Forum
Special to ag-IP-news Agency HYDERABAD - Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org) participated in the third Internet Governance (IGF) Forum held at Hyderabad International Conference Centre (HICC) in Hyderabad, India. With an overall concept of "Internet for all", the Forum provided a space for dialogue in which some 1300 participants from over 100 countries attended, and addressed five main th... More »
Public Comment Period on Registries/Registrars Report Extended
MARINA DEL REY - The public comment period on a report by CRA International on gTLD registries and registrars has been extended by one week to December 15, 2008, according to a press release by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The report, entitled "Revisiting Vertical Separation of Registries and Registrars", was commissioned in response to two Board resolutions, o... More »
PreMD Files Provisional Patent Application
TORONTO - Predictive medicine company PreMD Inc. announced in a press release that it has filed a provisional patent application that describes a new simplified method of quantifying immunohistochemical staining of biomarkers. The provisional patent application was filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This application, based on PreMD's existing color measurement patents and p... More »
Second IP Business Congress to Be Held June 2009
Special to ag-IP-news Agency CHICAGO - From June 21st to 23rd 2009, global Intellectual Property (IP) thought leaders will be gathering to attend the second IP Business Congress, hosted by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine. To be held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago, the IP Business Congress is designed specifically to meet the needs of senior business executives responsible for t... More »