People’s Daily Online — China faces international pressure on IPR earlier than expected: China has faced international pressure on its handling of intellectual property rights (IPR) five to ten years earlier than predicted, a senior Chinese IPR governor has said.…

Is Hormel Losing its Grip on Spam?: (Magilla Marketing) Though the case has no official legal clout in the U.S., some American executives battling Hormel Foods over use of the word spam see positive signs in a tiny UK technology…

Microsoft Loses Another Round in Excel Patent Case: Things aren’t going well for Microsoft on the litigation front. On Friday, a United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a patent infringement verdict against Microsoft from last year,…

ag-ip-news.com (Intellectual Property News Agency)AGIPNEWS3189: BRUSSELS – The European Commission announced on Tuesday that it will hold a public hearing on future EU patent policy on July 12, 2006. This is the second step of the public consultation launched in…

TheStar.com – Rivals gear up as patent lapses on cholesterol drug: The makers of four cholesterol drugs are busy promoting their products as new competition opens for such drugs.On Friday, Merck & Co.’s Zocor will lose U.S. patent protection, and…

Patent Baristas: USPTO Biotech Backlog: Bad, Getting Worse, No End in Sight: The San Francisco Business Times ran an article reiterating what patent practitioners already know. That is, the increasing backlog at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office is bad,…

Moneycontrol Tech Blog > Ebay Sued By Net2phone: Looks like a good thing can never last. Everyone’s favorite VoIP company Skype which is owned by Ebay has just been sued by Net2Phone alleging that Skype has infringed its patent for…

FT.com / US / Supreme Court – US antitrust watchdogs in clash over generics: An unusual rift between the top antitrust authorities in the US over the legality of deals between pharmaceutical companies and their generic counterparts is intensifying, raising…