All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 19
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The World Council of Optometry (WCO) has announced the launch...
The World Council of Optometry (WCO) has announced the launch of two new membership categories. The two categories are “individual” and “corporate” membership. Individual membership will be open to individual optometrists, vision scientists, faculty, researchers and eyecare industry professionals. The cost of individual membership is US$100, or US$50 if the ...
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The Japanese Patent Office has granted Zeiss two patents related...
The Japanese Patent Office has granted Zeiss two patents related to its freeform progressive technology. These include the types of progressive lenses whose front surfaces are rotationally symmetric with the back-surface progressive design determined by the individual prescriptions alone or in combination with other customization options. The back-surface freeform progressive ...
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has strengthened the validity...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has strengthened the validity of Carl Zeiss' 6.089.713 patent for back-surface, free-form progressive lenses, in response to a request filed by Ocuco for its review last October. In addition to supporting its eight original claims, it has said that 15 other new claims submitted ...
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The Italian government is seeking €1.2 billion in damages from...
The Italian government is seeking €1.2 billion in damages from Novartis and Roche for losses after allegations the two drugmakers colluded to direct patients with an eye disorder to a more expensive medicine. That resulted in damages to the Italian health system of €45 million in 2012, €540 million last ...
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The Vision Council has formally announced that Ed Greene, who...
The Vision Council has formally announced that Ed Greene, who has been running the U.S.-based organization for nearly eight years, will retire in the late part of 2014. The recruitment of his successor is already in progress. Formerly called the Vision Council of America (VCA), the association has grown under ...
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The World Council of Optometry has appointed a new chief...
The World Council of Optometry has appointed a new chief executive, Natalie Briggs, who served most recently as CEO of Vision Aid Overseas. She previously headed the Raven Department of Education at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Briggs has also served as a trustee on the Vision 20/20 ...
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Marcus Kuhlmann assumes the management of the medical engineering section...
Marcus Kuhlmann assumes the management of the medical engineering section of Spectaris, the German ophthalmic industry association. The 44-year-old previously worked as chief executive for an association of independent professionals in Germany. The German companies working in the field of medical engineering reported total sales of €22.3 million in 2012.
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Mark Truss, sales director of Norville Group, has been elected...
Mark Truss, sales director of Norville Group, has been elected vice chairman of the Federation of Manufacturing Opticians (FMO). He is likely to succeed the current chairman of the British industry association, Barry Dribble, at the end of his second term in office in December 2015. Truss' boss, Frank Norville, ...
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Mercy Jeysingham, a committee member of the U.K. General Optical...
Mercy Jeysingham, a committee member of the U.K. General Optical Council, has been appointed chief executive of Vision 2020 UK, replacing the retiring Anita Lightstone. Launched in 2008, Vision 20/20 UK is part of the global Vision 20/20 strategic initiative led by the World Health Organization and the International Association ...
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Ocuco is waiting for a final decision by the U.S....
Ocuco is waiting for a final decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) sometime this month on the re-examination that it has requested for a patent registered by Carl Zeiss in 2000 in the area of back-surface free-form processing of progressive lenses. The USPTO's verdict should fall sometime ...
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Maui Jim has earned the Seal of Recommendation from the...
Maui Jim has earned the Seal of Recommendation from the Skin Cancer Foundation. The Seal of Recommendation, which is a symbol of safe sun protection recognized by consumers worldwide, is granted to sun protection products after they have been verified by an independent committee of experts specialized in the study of ...
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Italy's antitrust regulator fined Novartis and Roche €182.5 million for...
Italy's antitrust regulator fined Novartis and Roche €182.5 million for allegedly colluding to prevent the use of Roche's Avastin, a cancer drug, as a treatment for eye macular degeneration. The two pharmaceutical companies blocked distribution of Avastin in favor of a more expensive drug, Lucentis, which they marketed jointly for ...
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The French Parliament has cast a final vote of approval...
The French Parliament has cast a final vote of approval on the so-called Hamon Bill, a piece of legislation for consumer protection that facilitates the sale of prescription eyeglasses over the internet. It does so through a clause that forces eye doctors to include the patient's interpupillary distance on their ...
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The European Coalition for Vision (ECV) and the Coalition's manifesto...
The European Coalition for Vision (ECV) and the Coalition's manifesto for the elections to the European Parliament were launched last Feb. 4 at the parliament's seat in Strasbourg. The manifesto, presented by a member of the European Parliament, Marian Harkin, calls on the European Parliament to use its significant powers ...
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CooperVision will be a lead sponsor of the first IACLE...
CooperVision will be a lead sponsor of the first IACLE Contact Lens Educator of the Year Awards, a program initiated by the International Association of Contact Lens Educators (IACLE) to recognize contact lens educators worldwide for their innovations and achievements in the field. The awards will be presented at the ...
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The creditors of Sover, an Italian eyewear firm that recently...
The creditors of Sover, an Italian eyewear firm that recently filed for bankruptcy protection, have been summoned to appear in a court in Belluno at 9.30 am on Thursday Feb. 13, to agree to a settlement of their debts based on the proposals made by the company last Oct. 25. ...
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The U.K.'s Federation of Manufacturing Opticians (FMO) is inviting for...
The U.K.'s Federation of Manufacturing Opticians (FMO) is inviting for the first time companies outside the U.K. to become members of the organization. Membership had been limited until now to British firms and to the British subsidiaries of foreign companies. Members can belong to any of FMO's focus groups for ...
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In a “non-final office action” at the end of October...
In a “non-final office action” at the end of October in response to a request for re-examination filed by Ocuco last May 21, the U.S. Patent Office recommended that all the 20 claims in Seiko Epson's patent 6,019,470 should be cancelled unless the Japanese company comes out with convincing counter-arguments. ...
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A research project carried out by Allensbach in Germany shows...
A research project carried out by Allensbach in Germany shows that 90 percent of all people wearing glasses in Germany have never tried contact lenses. The Kuratorium für Gutes Sehen (KGS) in Berlin launched a new video on YouTube and on its own website, kgs-info.de, to show opticians the advantages ...
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Italy's Commissione Difesa Vista (CDV), which promotes vision correction among...
Italy's Commissione Difesa Vista (CDV), which promotes vision correction among the Italian people, recently performed over 600 free eye tests on the occasion of the “G! Come giocare” toy fair in Milan, held on Nov. 22-24, and the results were rather alarming. It found 26 children suffering from hyperopia, 44 ...
