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ISSUE : DECEMBER 2006

 
 
 
PRESS ROOM

WI-LAN Patents licensed for $49.2M

Nokia has licensed the patent portfolio of Wi-LAN Inc. ( Ottawa ), which includes some current and pending patents, for $15.2 million US.


New DMCA Exemptions

The copyright office of the Library of Congress in USA has granted six exemptions under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). 


IBM and Amazon patent fight  

IBM filed a patent suit against Amazon, alleging that Amazon's web features such as customizing links, ordering items and so on infringe IBM's patented technologies.


Compulsory license on AIDS drug

The Thailand government has granted a five year compulsory license on Merck’s anti-retroviral drug - 'Efavirenz'. 

 

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 PATENT GRANTS IN NOVEMBER 

 

CSIR regains its first place in the patent race 

 

The Indian Patent Office granted 224 patents in November, 2006. The table below shows the top twelve companies that received patent grants. CSIR tops the list with 34 patents, followed by Motorola and Carrier Corporation with 8 and 5 patents respectively.

 

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 CASE STUDY

 

Teleflex vs. KSR International Company 119 Fed.Appx. 282,2005 WL 23377 (C.A.Fed. (Mich.))

    

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