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October 27, 2009
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Israel Patent Office Announces 2009 Student Patent Essay Competition Winners
October 27, 2009
Earlier this year, the Israel Patent Office has launched a prize for IP Essays submitted by students of college degrees.
The first prize was won by Mr class=”mceItemHidden”> Gadi Shevach Nevo of Tel Aviv University Law Faculty, for his essay entitled “Patent Trollers and Policy for Patent Infringment Claims”.
The second prize was won by Mr Itamar Morad of the Hebrew University, for his essay titled “Between Intellectual Property and Business Monopolies, the Return to Market Forces, the Weak Model”.
There will be a Prize Giving on 15 November 2009 at the Israel Patent Office.
For some reason – not published – the runner up is presenting a lecture on his topic but the prize winner isn’t!
Contact Lihi at lihiz@justice.gov.il to register.
We congratulate the Patent Office on initiating this event and hope that becomes an annual feature on the Israel IP Calendar.
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Lebanon Breaks Israel’s World Record for Hummus
October 27, 2009
To further their claims to intellectual property rights for hummus, as a Lebanese dish, 300 chefs in Beirut prepared a dish of hummus weighing 2056kg, by mixing 1360kg of mashed chickpeas, 333 litres of lemon juice and 26kg of salt to break the World record for the largest plate of the dip, that was established last May be Israel.
The Lebanese then went on to prepare a tabbouleh salad that weighed in at 3538kg and included 1596kg of parsley, 1496kg of tomatoes and 419kg of onions.
Actually, I view this development in a positive light. I think that if national pride and the Arab Israel Conflict could be redirected to fighting over world records instead of lobbing scuds and artillery shells over the fence, it is in everyone’s interest.
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