The IPKat

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Following the previous Katpost [ here ] which raised some questions about the effectiveness of academic conferences, I received a number of direct responses from readers leading to some constructive conversations on the topic. [A And even the most enthusiastic attentive academics cannot sit through 12 hours of back-to-back slideshows.

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IP.com

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The impact of current inflation rates, the consolidation of organizations within the healthcare & pharmaceutical industries, and pharmaceutical price implications on U.S. government health programs such as Medicare and Medicaid have brought the Bayh-Dole Act back into the headlines of innovation industry news.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 9, 2024

Ignoring Copyright is Risky Business Research in the life sciences depends in part on the ability to acquire and share scientific information, particularly journal articles, in a timely manner. In some smaller companies, researchers may use their academic credentials to download scientific articles and share them with colleagues. 

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Although the business and innovation practices of the pharmaceutical industry are largely based on patents, other intellectual property rights including trade marks and trade secrets are highly relevant too. Overview of the pharmaceutical industry and national systems of innovation. What does the pharmaceutical industry patent?

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 4, 2024

This piece originally appeared in Research Information. With the Retraction Watch database hitting almost 50,000 items and an ever-growing number of high-profile research misconduct cases , questions around the veracity of published research findings are becoming uncomfortably common. Re-published with permission.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 18, 2023

The 2 week seminar series provided an amazing crash course on all things IP, covering topics on patents, trademarks, copyright and industrial design, IP prosecution and litigation, as well as IP commercialization. My work was primarily to conduct research. Luckily for me, PIRO had a highly collaborative environment.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 3, 2021

As industry funding of academic research continues to rise, lawyers advising sponsoring entities should understand the intricacies of negotiating research agreements, including those around deal structure, intellectual property ownership and licensing, and confidentiality of findings, says Catlan McCurdy at McCurdy.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Carys Craig is the Director of IP Osgoode, Editor-in-Chief of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Academic Director of the Osgoode Professional LL.M I have been teaching and researching in intellectual property law at Osgoode since joining the faculty in 2002 and have served as Academic Director of Osgoode’s Professional LLM in IP law since 2009.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 31, 2023

While new blocks are added every month, research on the effectiveness of these efforts is rather limited. Early Piracy Blocking Research One of the earliest pieces of academic research, based on UK data, showed that the local Pirate Bay blockade had little effect on legal consumption.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Photo by Joey Csunyo on Unsplash In recent years, copyright departments in governments around the world have been preoccupied with AI’s effects on copyright industries and, more recently, copyright law challenges created for AI industries. What about ‘Down Under’?

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 23, 2022

For those competing in the rapid-paced food and beverage industry, whether delivering consumer packaged goods (CPGs), agricultural solutions, or ingredients, you may find that it is time to embark on expanding your innovation ecosystem. Test results and research content will often be exchanged both within and externally to your organization.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

This trend is also being seen in research, with a recently published study by a group of Saudi Arabian researchers that looked at using AI to look not just at text, but the images in a published paper. Simply put, the industry has gone from one of incremental change to one of drastic change.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 28, 2021

“We’d be better off as a company and an industry if we compressed that window. A quick comparison to the music industry makes this clear. It is still early days for ‘simultaneous releases’ and it will take months or years to figure out how this model impacts the broader movie industry revenue-wise.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

She was awarded the Junior Research Fellowship (2021-2022) and is presently co-teaching third-year students Labor Law and Industrial Relations II. Malobika writes in on what led her to her topic and what the focus of her research and her goals are going to be. Here is what she has to say! Sen, Prof. (Dr.)

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Mashelkar, Patents, Industry Funding, and Bias : In August of 2009, Prashant wrote about the Government of India’s acceptance of the conclusions of the Mashelkar Committee Report. However, the controversy arose more over the issue of bias and industry funding. Here we go: 1. Both of these questions were answered in the negative.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 22, 2022

When I first joined Osgoode Hall Law School as a professor in 2006, I dreamed of building closer bridges between academia, government, industry and expert hubs in Canada and around the world.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Melvin Kranzberg , an American academic whose field was the history of technology, created just six laws of technology more than 35 years ago. Currently, AI is building a strong presence in the scholarly publishing industry, where there are now many new AI-related initiatives, products, and services.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

9th Pan-European LES YMC Conference - 30 September 2022 – Milan – in person The 9th Pan-European LES YMC Conference " SPORT AND BEYOND: IP and Competition in the Sport Industry " will take place in Milan on 30 September 2022. The conference will be held online and participation is free of charge. Christophe Geiger.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 4, 2022

One obvious impact of the recent OSTP memo calling for zero embargo public access policies for articles resulting from research funded by US Federal agencies is that it will increase the speed at which publishers commit to an Open Access (OA) future. Corporations subscribe to journals to support their research goals.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 27, 2022

Food scares have been happening since the food industry began. Whether arsenic in rice-based baby food, acrylamide in snacks, or the release of a book by Upton Sinclair on the meatpacking industry, there will always be unexpected situations that challenge even the most experienced institutions’ ability to react quickly.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 18, 2024

And as they have done since the digital age dawned, scholarly and academic publishers are already embracing this latest technology. Publishers recognize that gen AI depends on high-quality content for success, and they contend the tech industry must seek permission for its use. We want to be remunerated for that content.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We’re pleased to inform you that Centre for Intellectual Property Studies, National Law University, Jodhpur is is inviting submissions from law students for the ‘NLUJ CIPS Inter College IP Research Essay Writing Competition, 2022’ on the theme ‘“IP and Youth: Innovating for a better future’. The NLUJ-CIPS Blog.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

APRIL 26, 2023

He also stressed the importance of working with industry to support innovation, expand business opportunities, and the need to provide clarity, consistency, and transparency to invest and compete. “At During the roundtable, they discussed potential issues faced by industry including U.S. commercial space industry ensuring U.S.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 15, 2022

This is a guest book review of the Research Handbook on Design Law , edited by Henning Hartwig, Attorney-at-Law, Bardehle Pagenberg, Munich, Germany. Designs overlap with all the other IP rights and are vital for a wide range of industries from fashion to automotive. Durkin, Ádám György, Mark D. The book does not disappoint.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 3, 2021

Here is what Rosie has to say about the book: It is a pleasure to review Harnessing Public Research for Innovation in the 21st Century, edited by Anthony Arundel, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University and University of Tasmania, Suma Athreye, Essex Business School, London and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, World Intellectual Property Organization.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 23, 2023

CCC will join the greater SSP community of academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, and others with a communal interest and stake in disseminating scholarly information.

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IPilogue

MARCH 3, 2022

Since its first breakthrough in the health and pharmaceutical industries in the 2010s, the application of 3D bioprinting has grown to include tissue engineering , cancer research , dentistry , regenerative medicine , and skincare/cosmetics. 3D Bioprinting in the Cosmetics Industry.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

LMG Life Sciences is the definitive guide to leading North American law firms and lawyers specializing in the life sciences industry.

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Intepat

JUNE 9, 2023

Intellectual property is not a prominently sought after objective for most people in the Indian industry. Encouraging Innovation: Realizing the crucial role of innovation in boosting economic growth, the National IPR Policy addresses the need to promote research and development activities in India.

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 1, 2023

You might risk swimming if the water looks clear, smells OK, and is not near an industrial plant. While generative AI such as ChatGPT gets all the buzz, AI in other, typically more targeted forms, has been used for years to solve business and research challenges. You may keep your mouth closed — and maybe your eyes.

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SpicyIP

MAY 24, 2023

Consider the tech industry in Silicon Valley or automobile sector in Germany. These industries placed these countries at the top of the technology value chain and the rest is history. Digitisation, digitalisation and digital transformation are the cornerstones of the fourth industrial revolution. This is not a new phenomenon.

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The IPKat

MARCH 2, 2022

These are some of the questions that will be discussed by a panel of prominent academics and practitioners working with these challenges in their respective roles. He is the author of over 60 publications on intellectual property law and is co-editor of the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and the Life Sciences.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2022

To uncover forward-thinking patent development and spotlight true technological contemporaries across industries, LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions has released its inaugural report “Innovation Momentum: The Global Top 100” that enables companies to benchmark the dynamics of their own innovative strength against their peers.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The overall use (and usefulness) of TDM lies in the possibility to analyze big corpuses of text and data such as scientific publications or research datasets. Although classical TDM and machine learning have different utility, both use the same key algorithms to discover patterns in data.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Second, it establishes collaborative networks for research and innovation that will ensure an enduring technological edge. This RFI follows an earlier one on “Incentives, Infrastructure, and Research and Development Needs to Support a Strong Domestic Semiconductor Industry,” which was issued by the U.S. Semiconductor Industry.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the words of the UKIPO: “ this is an issue that industry can, and should, seek to fix itself, although it does not rule out the possibility of legislative action in this area if industry does not take adequate steps to improve the situation.” For a full list, see here. That said, to an outsider, this is far from inclusive.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Battling a novel virus has also put immense pressure on scientists and researchers to find a vaccine as well as raised concerns on resource-allocation as well as disease management. The Centre for Intellectual Property Rights has, since its inception, been at the forefront of promoting research and education in the field of IPR.

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