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Impact of the America Invents Act on patent challenges at the USPTO


The America Invents Act (AIA) was enacted on September 16, 2011, and created new proceedings for challenging patents at the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). Eldora Ellison and Deborah Sterling discuss the predominant post-issuance proceedings that are (or will become) available.


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42 IP Week; Harnessing innovation


IP Week: Four days to find solutions to the crisis IP Week: Focussed on the future


IP Week: Making tracks: Caterpillar on counterfeiting IP Week: IP valuation: speaking a common language IP Week: Programme highlights


52 Balancing the odds: An evaluation of the .IN domain name dispute resolution policy


With the inception, advent and rapid globalisation of the Internet a revolutionary change has taken place in the field of communications. Lucy Rana and Rishu Srivastava look at domain name disputes.


55 58 62 44 64 An Overview of Revised Chinese Patent Law 2008


Though China’s new patent law came into force in 2009, companies are still working through its ramifications. Sandy Tam explains.


Better borders?: The proposed new EU Customs Regulation


The European Commission released a new draft Customs Regulation for the EU in May this year. Will it bring in the changes that IP owners are asking for in European border protection? Peter O'Byrne and Karen Roberts discuss the issues.


Protecting computer programme user interfaces


It is not always obvious which part of a computer programme can be protected using intellectual property. Piotr Niezgódka takes a look.


Smelling of roses: Hungary confirms position on trademark rights in perfume case


A recent final court decision of the Metropolitan Court has touched the questions of jurisdiction of community trademark law, exhaustion of rights, the distribution of testers and selective distribution system for luxury perfume brands. Judit Lantos explains.


66 Patent information from centres of excellence


Finding prior art information usually involves searches by subject terms or class codes and can quite often involve patent assignees and inventors as subject terms. Instead of trying to locate a corpus of relevant documents, it may be useful to find a physical centre of excellence where work is conducted and then look for publications that come out of it. Ron Kaminecki explains.


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90 Directory of service providers 95 Movers and shakers


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