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Intellectual Property

Assignment of Intellectual Property Rights

• Commercial Law – Outsouring of Software Development Work to India - Contract Construction – Assignment of Intellectual Property Rights - Non Payment of Fees – Reversion of Intellectual Property Rights? - Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights – Settlement Agreement – Patent Infringement - Injunction, January 2008

Copyright Law

• Intellectual Property Law – Media Law – Copyright Law - Literary Copyright – Screenplay – Injunction – Copyright Infringement – Film Industry, July 2008
• Intellectual Property Law – National Consumer Council – Format Shifting – IP Law Reform, June 2008
• Intellectual Property Law – Viacom Sues Google – Copyright Infringement – U Tube, June 2008
• Intellectual Property Law – Potential Copyright Infringement – Ownership of Copyright – Exclusive Licensee – Negation of Personal Liability – Software Development – Joint Venture – Key Points when Invoicing a Third Party for Work Carried Out – Who is a Party to the Agreement?, May 2008
• Intellectual Property – Format Shifting is Technically Illegal – Gowers Report - Copying Music from a CD to an MP3 player – Selling Pirate Music and Films on the Internet – Private Copying Exception, January 2008

Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights

• Intellectual Property Law – European Patent – Pharmaceuticals – Amendment – Revocation of Patent – Stereochemistry of Nebivolol – Lack of Novelty – Lack of Inventive Step, June 2008
• Intellectual Property Law – IP Enforcement Directive – Damages for Intellectual Property Infringement - Intellectual Property (Enforcement) Regulations 2006 - Remedies for IP Infringement, February 2008
• Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights - Gowers Review of Intellectual Property Rights, January 2008

Passing Off

• Intellectual Property Law – Trade Mark Application and Opposition – Passing Off - OHIM – Invalidity Claim, January 2008
• Intellectual Property Law – Trade Mark Infringement – Passing Off – Counterclaim for Invalidity, January 2008

Patent Law

• Intellectual Property Law – European Patent – Pharmaceuticals – Amendment – Revocation of Patent – Stereochemistry of Nebivolol – Lack of Novelty – Lack of Inventive Step, June 2008
• Intellectual Property Law – Patent – Pharmaceuticals – Generic Drugs - Damages – Interim Injunction – Patent Infringement, June 2008
• Intellectual Property Law – Unjustified Patent Infringement Threat - Patent Infringement - Injunction - Revocation of Patent, June 2008
• Intellectual Property – PPH – UK and US Patents, February 2008
• Intellectual Property Law – Exclusion of Computer Programs from Patentability – Software Patents - Computer Programs – Article 52 Convention on the Grant of European Patents 1973 - whether patent claims could ever be granted for computer programs?, February 2008
• Intellectual Property Law – Patentability of Computer Program – Presentation of Information, February 2008
• Intellectual Property Law –Disclosure of Documents – Whether Documents had to be Disclosed by the Entire Group of Companies - Patent Dispute – Lack of Inventive Step – Invalidity - Obviousness, February 2008
• UKIPO Launches New On-line Patent Service, January 2008
• Commercial Law – Outsouring of Software Development Work to India - Contract Construction – Assignment of Intellectual Property Rights - Non Payment of Fees – Reversion of Intellectual Property Rights? - Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights – Settlement Agreement – Patent Infringement - Injunction, January 2008
• Intellectual Property Law – Opinion of the Comptroller of Patents – Patent Infringement – Right to Appeal, January 2008
• Intellectual Property Law – Patent Infringement – Added Matter – Obviousness – Insufficiency, January 2008

• Intellectual Property Law – Design Rights Dispute – Infringement of Registered and Unregistered Design Rights in Law Mower – Copying of Ideas not Infringement, May 2008
• Intellectual Property Law – UK Design vs Community Design – Infringement of Registered Design Rights, Alleged Innocent Infringer, January 2008

Remedies

• Intellectual Property Law – European Patent – Pharmaceuticals – Amendment – Revocation of Patent – Stereochemistry of Nebivolol – Lack of Novelty – Lack of Inventive Step, June 2008
• Intellectual Property Law – Patent – Pharmaceuticals – Generic Drugs - Damages – Interim Injunction – Patent Infringement, June 2008
• Intellectual Property Law – IP Enforcement Directive – Damages for Intellectual Property Infringement - Intellectual Property (Enforcement) Regulations 2006 - Remedies for IP Infringement, February 2008

Settlement Agreement

• Commercial Law – Outsouring of Software Development Work to India - Contract Construction – Assignment of Intellectual Property Rights - Non Payment of Fees – Reversion of Intellectual Property Rights? - Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights – Settlement Agreement – Patent Infringement - Injunction, January 2008

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