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Compulsory licensing for expensive medicines: KCE report

SpicyIP

The Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE) recently released an interesting report titled ‘Compulsory licensing for expensive medicines’. This report comes at an opportune moment. Ordinarily, patentees voluntarily decide whether or not and on what conditions to grant licenses to third parties. Natco Pharma Ltd.

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Compulsory licensing for expensive medicines – new report published in Belgium

JD Supra Law

On 14 June 2022, the Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE), a think-tank funded by the Belgian government, published a report on the compulsory licensing of expensive medicinal products (the Report). By: Allen & Overy LLP

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YouTube Aims to Simplify Music Licensing

Plagiarism Today

Specifically, YouTube is taking steps to make it easier for YouTubers to license popular music for their videos. Entitled Creator Music, the system makes it easy to for YouTubers to license available songs and maintain monetization of their videos. To that end, there are two ways that video creators can license the traciks.

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The USPTO and USCO Delivered a Report to Congress on IP Issues with NFTs – Maintains Existing IP Regime

Intellectual Property Law Blog

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”). While the Report is comprehensive, it does not recommend any new action to address IP issues with NFTs.

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Likelihood of Confusion

David Donoghue reports on an interesting copyright issue blowing around Chicago, my home away from home: The Chicago Tribune‘s Ameet Sachdev reported that an ongoing copyright dispute may be coming to a head at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street in Chicago, click here for the Tribune article.

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3 Count: Music Licensing is Strange…

Plagiarism Today

Next up today, Hope Bellingham at GamesRadar reports that the recently released game Life is Strange: True Colors has been released, but fans noticed that, despite most of the game being well subtitled, portions with singing were not. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Major Life Sciences Licensing Deal Trends in China in 2023

JD Supra Law

In 2023, there were 240 reported life sciences licensing deals in China, an increase of almost 50% compared to 2021. This is the first of two articles focused on 2023 life sciences deals in China. The second article, which is coming soon, looks at trends in M&A. By: Goodwin