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Judge companies on what they do about their IP rights, not on what they say
What with everthing that has been going on recently I overlooked a pieceof work produced by the law firm Freshfields. The Global Intellectual Property Survey 2009: Maximising IP value in the downturn set out to determine whether ... View postJoff Wild, IAM magazine | 02 Jul 2009
Applications for EPO president position formally requested
Do you want to be the President of the European Patent Office? We know that there are a few people that most certainly aspire to the position. But how many will actually put themselves forward? To stand a chance you have to be able to ... View postJoff Wild, IAM magazine | 01 Jul 2009
Interviews with Phelps of Microsoft, Peters of Philips and other top CIPOs available to view
The final batch of video interviews conducted at the IP Business Congress last week are now available to view. They are: • Marshall Phelps, VP of IP policy and strategy at Microsoft, and David Kline, co-author of Rembrandts in ... View postJoff Wild, IAM magazine | 30 Jun 2009
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Patents, incentives and a few crazy inventions ![[premium]](/images/rounds/premium.png)
To encourage truly groundbreaking innovation, a patent system must also be able to tolerate other, more bizarre inventions View article
Europe needs an EPO leader to tackle its many patent problems
Alison Brimelow is standing down as the president of the EPO in 2010. Her successor will have a huge job to do. And that means the best person for the job must get it View article
Supermarket pays for background music
A Beijing court has ordered a supermarket to pay the Music Copyright Society of China Rmb500 for the unauthorised use of a song in its store. As MerryMart had indirectly benefited from using the song in the supermarket, it was obliged to pay royalties to the copyright owner. View report
A controversial end for a controversial patent application
IP Australia recently announced the official lapse of Australian patent application 2004309300, which relates to a human embryonic stem cell line generated by the process of somatic cell nuclear transfer. The question has been raised of whether the patent application lacks utility; however, this particular issue is beyond the considerations required for examination. View report
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