マイケル・ジャクソンとIP

私には、ファラ・フォーセット（・メジャーズ）の死の方がショックでした。
あの、たてがみのようなブロンドが脳裏に浮かびます。

(LINK)
Michael Jackson's estate will keep busy protecting IP rights
Tresa Baldas
June 26, 2009
It's a copyright and trademark nightmare waiting to happen.

Intellectual property lawyers are anticipating a slew of legal battles involving the exploitation of Michael Jackson's name, music and image, largely by scammers seeking to capitalize on the pop star's life and death.

EPO 特許明細への先行技術の記載

権利解釈時の限定解釈を避けるために米国出願用明細にはあまり先行技術と本願の対比は書かない方が良い。その一方で、欧州出願用明細には先行技術との対比を書かなければいけない。
これって、明細作る上でうっとうしいでよね。
では、欧州明細において先行技術との対比を書いていない特許は無効になるのか？
興味ありませんか。


(IPKat)
Patent attorneys will be well aware that not mentioning relevant prior art known at the time of filing cannot of itself make a European application or patent invalid. The examiners for application 06024212.0, however, apparently thought differently, contrary to long-standing EPO practice. From a rather strained interpretation of the German version of the relevant rule, the examining division's view was that not including a reference to relevant prior art known to the applicant at the time of filing would make the application void ab initio. The application was refused as a result.

In the resulting decision T 2321/08, the Board considered that the examining division had got it completely wrong. Rule 42(1)(b) did not put any stringent obligation on the applicant to cite relevant documents known at the time of filing, and failure to do so was in any case correctable after filing by making appropriate amendments.


Rule 42
Content of the description

(1) The description shall:
(a) specify the technical field to which the invention relates;
(b) indicate the background art which, as far as is known to the applicant, can be regarded as useful to understand the invention, draw up the European search report and examine the European patent application, and, preferably, cite the documents reflecting such art;

ブログ紹介 Law Department Management

Dear Mr. Morrison,

Thank you very much for your generous email informing me of your intention to offer law department management and patents related information. your blog is very informative. One of my favorite blogs. I want to know everything about IP department of the U.S. corporations, such as how many people work for IP dept. or how much budget they use in a year or how does a U.S. corporation evaluate IP dept.'s performance.
I hope you will post more IP related articles on your blog.

Toy-san

外国企業の法務部門の活動を知りたいと思ってIn-House Lawyer関係のブログをいくつかチェックしています。

Law Department Management

が情報量が多くてお勧めです。

先日、このブログ掲載の、日本企業に勤める英語スピーカー弁護士の年収についてリンクを掲載したところ、以下のように紹介していただきました。また、興味のある情報があれば紹介するとの丁寧なメールもいただきました。

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13 more blogs or sites that have directed visitors to LawDepartmentManagement Blog Some 14 referral sources are mentioned and thanked in a previous post (See my post of June 17, 2009: 14 referral sources in two days). Since then I have been collecting additional ones, and I also am grateful to them.
adriandayton.com (Adrian Dayton)
inhouseaccess.com/ (ACC)
ip-info.blogspot.com/ (Toy-san)
www.integreon.com/blog (Integreon, Ron Friedmann)

＜以下省略＞


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I can't read your blog, unfortunately, but I have had 20-30 hits on mine over the past several days. I appreciate it.

Let me know what kind of information you like, since I have about 50 related to law department management and patents. You are most welcome to repurpose any of them -- that is, cite to them or comment on them or collect them as a group.

Rees

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