Judge Sarah Dotan of the Tel Aviv District Court has overturned appeal by Israeli Company Maytronics concerning the voiding by the Israel Patent Office of their patent for a swimming pool cleaning robot. Read the rest of this entry »
Court Upholds Patent Office Ruling Concerning Swimming Pool Robot
March 26, 2006
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IPO Awards Plaintiff Damages since Defendant’s Statement of Defence is Baseless Denials
March 16, 2006In an interesting ruling of 14 March 2006, regarding the trademark Warman (Israel Trademark No. 123731) IP Arbitrator Noach Shalev Shmulovich at the Israel Patent Office has ruled that filing simple denials in a statement of defence “to put it gently and carefully, does not meet the standards of legal practice, and constitutes a mockery of the judicial procedure and the Institution of the Comissioner of Trademarks”. The defendant, Research and Development Pty. LTD, represented by Seligsohn Gabrieli Levit, was ordered to pay 2500 NIS costs to the Plaintiff, Weir Warman, LTD.
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$612,500,000 for BlackBerries
March 6, 2006Research In Motion Ltd. has agreed to pay NTP Inc. $612.5 million to settle the long-running patent dispute that had threatened to disrupt its widely used BlackBerry wireless-email service.
The record payout actually sent RIM’s shares soaring 18% up $13.35 to $85.27. Read the rest of this entry »
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Israel Patent Office To Become Closed Agency following UK Model
March 6, 2006At yesterday’s cabinet meeting the Israel Government approved restructuring the Israel Patent Office as a closed Agency.
Essentially income from patent, trademark and design application filings and renewals will be ploughed back into the office. The move is expected to increase staff salaries and is part of sweeping reforms and an efficiency drive spearheaded by Comissioner of Patents, Dr. Meir Noam.
The move is welcomed by Read the rest of this entry »
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The Debate about Internet Publishing, Modification and Copyright Infringement
March 6, 2006There is an interesting and well written layman’s article on the problem of having digital material available on the Internet in a form that can be cut and pasted, quoted and requoted and taken out of context.
The original article, starts like this:
Web 2.0 and Maintaining the Integrity of Online Intellectual Property
— As the creation and distribution of information become more collaborative, dynamic, and social, and as application software evolves to support ‘mashups’ that combine both content and functionality from various sources, traditional definitions of ‘documents,’ their authorship, and their ownership are becoming obsolete. Read the rest of this entry »
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Author of Da Vinci Code is Sued in UK High Court for Plagiarism
March 1, 2006DAN BROWN, the author of The 30 million copy bestseller, the Da Vinci Code, was challenged in the UK High Court on February 28, by two authors who allege that he based his work on their research. Read the rest of this entry »
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