Faits Divers
- Appointment of Mr. Peter Lawrence as Vice-President of the Office. He will take up his duties on 1 November 2005 on the retirement of the current Vice-President, Mr Alexander von Mühlendahl. After six years as Director of Trade Mark and Designs at the UK Patent Office, Peter was appointed as Director of Intellectual Property and Innovation in 2003. He is a familiar face in the IP world and, in particular, here at the OHIM as he has been Chairman of the Budget Committee since March 2000. Lees persbericht.
- Court of Appeal: British Horseracing Board heeft definitief het nakijken. Het HvJ EG is zijn boekje niet te buiten gegaan en heeft de feiten niet verkeerd geïnterpreteerd. (William Hill maakt dus naar alle waarschijnlijkheid geen inbreuk op de databankrechten van British Horseracing Board).
-Patents: Commission adopts a second report on biotechnological inventions, covering gene patents and stem cells. The European Commission has adopted a second report (COM(2005)312) to the Council and European Parliament covering developments and implications of patent law in the field of biotechnology and genetic engineering. It focuses on issues in the area of patents relating to gene sequences and the patentability of inventions relating to stem cells. It also reports on the implementation of the Directive. Persbericht Commissie.
- Amerikaanse 'Bud' wint in Hongarije wèl van angstgegner Budvar. De Tsjechische concurrent die ook de naam Budweiser hanteert, krijgt van Hongaarse rechter geen geografische bescherming voor 'Bud', 'Budweiser Budvar' en 'Budweiser Bier
Budvar'. Volkskrant
- International patent applications filed under the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and received from the PCT receiving offices in the Republic of Korea and Finland will now be processed in a fully electronic manner. WIPO.
- 'In recent years a series of reports have provided evidence about the erosion of America's scientific and industrial base. But 'strikingly,' as Pat Choate observes in 'Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization,' 'the massive theft of U.S.-owned intellectual properties as a contributing cause to America's technological decline has been almost totally overlooked in these reports.'In this timely and important book, Choate sounds the alarm about the threat posed by such piracy.' New York Times
