Summary: Eben Moglen gives a talk titled "Patents at a Crossroads: Bilski and Beyond"

THIS is a new talk from earlier this month.

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The Internet Society – New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) was happy and interested to co-sponsor, with the Intellectual Property Law Society, a lunchtime lecture at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law on Monday Nov 2 2009. Eben Moglen, Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, spoke on the topic – “Patent Law at a Crossroads: Bilski and Beyond“.

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IP Watch also has this good new article about a fearsome consolidation -- a sort of maximalist globalisation like ACTA [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14].

Trilateral Patent Offices To Launch New Work Sharing Projects

The Patent Prosecution Highway, an information sharing network between certain patent offices, has recently had its potential expanded thanks to a new agreement between two of the “trilateral” IP offices, according to the group’s site [pdf]. In addition to the EPO, the trilateral group includes the Japan Patent Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Separately, the FFII's president claims based on this other IP Watch report that the "Lisbon Treaty should have no direct impact on the European Patent Office (EPO)."

We wrote about the Lisbon Treaty in [1, 2, 3]. ⬆