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This week in the Intellectual Property world there have been some instances of shares falling due to patent case decisions see (both from Reuters):
Interdigital Shares Sink On Initial Patent Ruling
And;
Lilly Shares Fall After Court Invalidates Patent
The USPTO is re-examining the anti-clotting drug Plavix reports CNN. Plavix is the second best selling prescription drug in the world. Meanwhile Sony is patenting an emotion detector potentially for use with the Playstation – could it have them laughing all the way to the bank? bit-tech.net has more.
Wired reports that Twitter is facing legal action in many respects due to its incredible flexibility.
Finally, Marketing Week has a brief report on the growing copyright dispute between Sainsbury’s and Diageo.