New Zealand has approved a law which bans software patents. The proposal to abolish this type of patents dating back to 2008 and only now has been approved by parliament after a long debate. Even if the question relates to a distant country we can not remain indifferent. Since many years there’s a battle between […]
The US Supreme Court has issued an important decision (SupremeCourtUSA-Myriad) in the field of patentability of the human genome. The object of the legal action was a patent of Myriad, a company known for being the exclusive owner of the tests that diagnose the percentage of probability that a woman has to be subject to […]
The Customs Regulations 2013 relative to the protection of intellectual property rights by the customs authority have been recently approved, which from next 1 January 2014 shall abrogate and substitute the CE Regulations 1383/2003 in force. It should be remembered that the customs procedure allows owners of industrial property rights to intervene so that eventual […]
The Privacy Authority has accepted the requests put forward by an industrial group in order to install an “intelligent” videosurveillance system presenting a movement recognition feature to protect five photovoltaic plants located in isolated areas. The applications for preliminary verification that were filed derive from the peculiar organizational and security needs of the production sites […]
April 26, 2025, marks World Intellectual Property Day, and this year’s theme will be music. The initiative...
