International Law

Industrial Design in Canada
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office has released some updated tools to assist practicitioners in drafting and filing industrial design applications, including sample drawings...

Open Design: Industrial Design under CC
CC Israel Project Lead Rotem Medzini writes about an initiative to combine computer numerical control (CNC) with CC-licensed design information: Open-Design is an alternative way of designing art...

US Patent Office Conducts Tour On Industrial Design Protection
By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch The United States Patent and Trademark Office is meeting with industry groups and intellectual property experts to determine how to strike just the right balance on industrial design protection in the United States...

RULES: ECF Training Database Available on line!!!
The court has developed a training database for counsel's use in familiarizing themselves with the how-to's of filing in ECF. Counsel are encouraged to access that database and practice with ECF at this link...

International design system opens its doors to UK designers in 2008
A change in the law means that from 1 January 2008, UK businesses will be able to obtain international design registrations. The change also means that people will be able to obtain Community Registered Designs (giving EU-wide protection) through the international design system...

OpenMoko CC Licenses CAD Files for Neo1973
OpenMoko, makers of the first true open source phone (previously blogged here), have recently expanded the meaning of ‘open source design’ by licensing the CAD (computer-aided design) files for their flagship model, the Neo1973, under a CC BY-SA license...