eNom and NameJet Partner to Offer .CO General Availability Pre-Order Service
SANTA MONICA, CA. - eNom Inc., the world’s largest ICANN accredited domain name wholesaler and accredited .CO registrar, announced in a press release a partnership with NameJet, to offer a general availability (GA) pre-order bidding service for new .CO domain names, designed to improve its customers’ chances of obtaining desirable .CO domain names during the GA period, for less than Landrush regis... More »
WIPO Member States Discuss Key Copyright Issues
GENEVA - The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)’s top copyright negotiating body discussed better access to copyright-protected works for the blind, visually impaired (VIP) and other reading-disabled persons, as well as updating the rights of broadcasting organizations. According to a press release by WIPO, the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), meeting f... More »
Montenegro New Trademark Law Gives 12-month Deadline to TM Owners
Special to ag-IP-news Agency PODGORICA - The Montenegrin parliament is expected to adopt a new trademark law in early July. The law will enter into force on the 8th day from its publication in the Official Gazette of Montenegro. The most important provision of the new law affects the owners of trademarks registered before the Serbian Intellectual Property Office (IPO) before May 28, 2008, the op... More »
International Stem Cell Corporation Announces New Patent Issuance under License Agreement
OCEANSIDE, CA. - International Stem Cell Corporation (ISCO.OB), a California-based biotechnology company focused on therapeutic and research products, congratulated Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (ACT) on the issuance of its recent patent, US Patent Number 7,736,896, covering a method for producing retinal pigment epithelial cells. According to International Stem Cell Corporation, as licensee of ... More »
Stellar Pharmaceuticals Allowed Uracyst Patent in United States of America
LONDON, ONTARIO - Stellar Pharmaceuticals Inc., a Canadian pharmaceutical developer and marketer of high quality, cost-effective products for select health care markets, announced in a press release that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for intellectual property central to one of the Company's lead products, Uracyst (a sterile sodium chondroitin... More »
ASIP Holds Trademarks and Unfair Competition Course
Special to ag-IP-news Agency AMMAN - Registration for the Arab Certified Intellectual Property Practitioner (ACIPP) program, "Trademarks and Unfair Competition" course has started. The "Trademarks and Unfair Competition" Course will be held June 27– July 8, 2010 at Talal Abu-Ghazaleh College of Business, and the examination will be held on July 18, 2010. The ACIPP is a professional Arabic ... More »
Community Notice: Revised Process for Selection of Sites for ICANN International Public Meetings
MARINA DEL REY, CA - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board Committee on Public Participation has approved a modified process for identifying the location of ICANN International Public Meetings. According to ICANN, the bid process by which ICANN Meeting sites have been chosen in the past inherently limits the range of choices to cities and venues to those that submi... More »
AGIP Highlights Significance of Cautionary Notices to Protect IPRs in Afghanistan
KABUL - Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) informed its clients in a press release that they can publish Cautionary Notices through AGIP Afghanistan Office which will help them protect their Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) when Patent Laws are implemented in the country. Babu A. Nambarath, AGIP Operations manager said: "The Cautionary Notice is used as a tool to make public/consumer aw... More »
Orion and Sun Settle Patent Dispute
ESPOO, FINLAND - Orion Corporation and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited and certain other companies belonging to Sun group of companies (together "Sun") have executed a settlement agreement on lawsuits filed by Orion in the United States against Sun regarding Sun's submissions of abbreviated new drug applications ("ANDAs") for generic versions of Orion's Comtan and Stalevo products. A ... More »
WHO, WIPO &WTO Organize Access to Medicines: Pricing and Procurement Practices Symposium
GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) are jointly organizing a symposium at technical level on Access to Medicines: Pricing and Procurement Practices on July 16, 2010 at the Center William Rappard at the WTO in Geneva. According to the WTO official website, the purpose of the symposium is to learn w... More »
Iron Mountain Announces New Tiered Offering for Registry Data Escrow to Support ICANNs New gTLD Initiative
BOSTON - Iron Mountain Incorporated, the information management company, today announced in a press release a new tiered offering for its Registry Data Escrow service to meet the needs of registry operators as they introduce new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs). With the rapid expansion of Internet use worldwide, ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is implementing an ... More »
BSA Calls for New Direction in US-China Trade Policy
WASHINGTON - A comprehensive, results-based US trade policy with China is needed to replace the “one-off, issue-by-issue approach that guides the current relationship,” Robert Holleyman, president and CEO of the Business Software Alliance (BSA), said in testimony on June 16, 2010 before the US House Committee on Ways and Means. Holleyman called for a specific goal of increasing US software exports... More »
Counterfeiters See Opportunity in World Cup Tournament - INTA
NEW YORK, NY - The International Trademark Association (INTA) warned consumers about the abundance of counterfeit goods available during the FIFA World Cup tournament and the harmful impact purchasing these illegal products will have on economies around the globe, according to the Association. Unsuspecting tourists and fans are being targeted by counterfeiters looking to take advantage of th... More »
Member States Agree on Steps to Enhance Benefits of PCT for all Countries
GENEVA - Member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) – a cost-effective mechanism that facilitates the process of obtaining international patent protection – endorsed a series of recommendations to enhance the PCT’s contribution in improving the quality of granted patents and to make the international patent system more useful to developin... More »
Changes to Patent Examiner Performance Standards Proposed
WASHINGTON - Management at the United States Patent and Trademark Office has been working with representatives of the patent examiners union, the Patent Office Professional Association (POPA), to better align the performance standards for patent examiners with the USPTO’s goals for increasing quality in patent examination and reducing the backlog of pending patent applications, Under-Secretary of ... More »
Digimarc Dismisses Patent Infringement Suit Against Shazam Entertainment
BEAVERTON, ORE. - Digimarc Corporation announced in a press release that it has dismissed its complaint for patent infringement against Shazam Entertainment it filed in November 2009 while the parties discuss ways to work together. The parties recognize they have a number of mutual commercial interests and have agreed it is best not to have the distraction and expense of a lawsuit as they explore... More »
Public Comment: Phased Allocation Program in .JOBS
MARINA DEL REY, CA - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is opening a public comment period on a proposed amendment from EmployMedia LLC to Appendix S of the .JOBS Registry Agreement, according to the Corporation. On June 9, 2010, ICANN posted for public information a request submitted by EmployMedia through the Registry Services Evaluation Process to offer a phased al... More »
Route1 Issued US Patent for the MobiKEY Device
TORONTO, ONTARIO - Route1 Inc., a security and identity management company, announced in a press release that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Route1’s first patent titled, “Portable Device for Accessing Host Computer via Remote Computer.” The abstract for US Patent 7,739,726 B2, dated today, states: A portable device enables access to a host computer via a guest computer... More »
Abu-Ghazaleh Announces UN-GAID E-Millennium Development Goals Center
Special to ag-IP-news Agency RIYADH - Under the patronage of the GCC Secretary-General, Abdul Rahman Ibn Hamad Al-Attiyah, a seminar entitled “E-solutions for MDGs” organized by the General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council and the United Nations Global Alliance on ICT and Development (UN-GAID) concluded in Riyadh on Tuesday. Deputizing for Al-Attiyah, GCC Assistant Secretary-General f... More »
The Lanier Law Firm Announces Trademark Infringement Lawsuit
SAN JOSE - The Lanier Law Firm announced in a press release a trademark infringement lawsuit filed against video game giant Electronic Arts Inc. over the popular Mirror's Edge video game franchise. The first-person, action-adventure game featuring the main character "Faith" has been a worldwide success for EA, which has sold more than one million copies of Mirror's Edge on the Xbox 360, Playstati... More »
AMRI Receives Approval of Preliminary Injunction Against Dr. Reddys
ALBANY, NY - Albany Molecular Research Inc. (AMRI) announced in a press release that its motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Inc. (Dr. Reddy's) from the commercial distribution of generic versions of Allegra-D ® 24 Hour (fexofenadine HCl 180 mg and pseudoephedrine HCl 240 mg) Extended-Release Tablets in the Unites States has bee... More »
Ryder Issued US Patent for Systems and Methods for Supply Chain Management
MIAMI, FL - Ryder System Inc., a leader in transportation and supply chain management solutions, today announced in a press release that it has been awarded a patent from the US Patent Office for its systems and methods that integrate and optimize supply chain performance in the areas of shipment planning and execution. The newly issued US patent has been assigned the number 7,711,602 and was iss... More »
Molex Taiwan Prevails in Taiwin Electronics Patent Infringement Lawsuit
LISLE, IL - Leading global supplier of connectors and interconnect components, Molex Incorporated has announced that the Intellectual Property Court (IP Court) of Taiwan recently ruled in favor of subsidiary Molex Taiwan Ltd. in a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Taiwin Electronics Co., Ltd. A press release by the company stated that the September 2009 suit alleged that Molex combo connecto... More »
Motorola and Research In Motion Announce Settlement and License Agreement
SCHAUMBURG, Ill and WATERLOO, ON - Motorola Inc. and Research In Motion Limited (RIM) have entered into a Settlement and License Agreement which ends all outstanding worldwide litigation between the two companies, according to a press release by Motorola. Under the Agreement, Motorola and RIM will benefit from a long-term, Intellectual Property cross-licensing arrangement involving the parties re... More »
USPTO Awards Key Patent to ADF Solutions for Digital Forensics
BETHESDA, Md. - ADF Solutions Inc., the leading provider of forensic triage tools for computers and peripherals, announced in a press release that it has been granted a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) pertaining to methods of searching forensic data. The patent has critical applications for forensic triage, cyber-security, cyber-intelligence, digital forensics, and e-discovery... More »