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      <title>Francis Gurry will be the new director-general of WIPO</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Francis Gurry has been elected the new director-general of WIPO. In a run-off poll with Jos&eacute; Gra&ccedil;a Aranha this evening, after the other candidates for the post had either been eliminated or had withdrawn,&nbsp;Gurry defeated the Brazilian by 42 votes to 41. The election of the Australian will be welcomed by many countries in the developed world and should also prove popular among WIPO staff. This is something that will be important as Gurry attempts to restore morale inside the office after the turbulent reign of Kamil Idris. The Sudanese national will depart with a tasty pension when his term officially...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>EU presidency hails patent advances, but money could scupper deal</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Slovenian presidency of the EU has produced a document outlining the progress that has been made in the on-going discussions among EU member states about a possible single EU-wide patent jurisdiction and the Community patent. If both proposals were to become a reality, we would see the introduction of a patent issued by the EPO that would be valid in the jurisdictions of all EU member states and the creation of a unitary court system to hear dispute relating to all patents awarded by the EPO. 
Importantly, as I understand it this court system would not only deal with Community...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Bush Administration urges Congress not to give up on patent reform </title>
      <description><![CDATA[I have had a couple of comments from US-based readers concerning the blog I posted last Saturday on the demise (or so i thought) of the Patent Reform Act. According to both correspondents, I could be jumping the gun. This is what they had to say:
I wouldn't be too quick to jump to the conclusion that Congress is done with patent reform. 
This Congress is done with patent reform. There will be a whole new Congress and Executive branch within a year. We just don't know how they will view things. These dynamics are both the best and worst thing about...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Two IAM IP publications now available free of charge online</title>
      <description><![CDATA[IAM has just published two guides, both of which are available online and completely free of charge: 
&bull; Brands in the Boardroom, released to coincide with next week&rsquo;s INTA meeting in Berlin, examines how Playboy and E&amp;J Gallo manage their respective brands portfolios, and also takes an in-depth look at Google&rsquo;s controversial AdWords programme. In addition, there are a series of other articles detailing key trademark issues in some of the world&rsquo;s major jurisdictions. 
&bull; Patents in Europe, first made publicly available last week at the European Patent Forum in Ljubljana, has been produced in association with the European Patent Office....]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>McCurdy leaves Thinkfire to become chairman of anti patent troll online venture </title>
      <description><![CDATA[I understand that this week Thinkfire will confirm that its CEO, Dan McCurdy, has resigned to become chairman of a spin-out from the company called PatentFreedom. McCurdy is succeeded by Steven Hoffman who was previously Thinkfire&rsquo;s president; he&nbsp;will stay on at the company&nbsp;until July to help in the transition process. 
As one of the founders of Thinkfire back in 2001, McCurdy has played a prominent role in building the company into a successful and profitable business. Although it rarely gives any details of its client base, Thinkfire has been involved a number of high profile litigations, including, I believe,&nbsp;working for&nbsp;Alcatel Lucent...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>A complete waste of time that has weakened the US patent-owning communities</title>
      <description><![CDATA[It has looked dead for a month or so. And now it is. The Patent Reform Act has been officially withdrawn from the schedule of the US Senate and with that decision goes just about any chance it had of being enacted. Once it became clear that no deal was going to be reached over damages apportionment, the writing was on the wall for the proposed legislation When John Whelan, on secondment from the USPTO, packed up his things and left Senator Patrick Leahy&rsquo;s office and Leahy&rsquo;s chief counsel started to work on other things, the game was up. 
But, when...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Mutual recognition raises its head as EPO boss says backlog won't be mastered</title>
      <description><![CDATA[So what happens when a major patent office concedes publicly that its growing backlog will never be beaten and that for the foreseeable future there are going to be hundreds of thousands of unexamined applications piling up, creating levels of uncertainty never before known in the jurisdictions for which it is responsible? Well, over the next couple of years we may well find out, because this is the situation in which the European Patent Office now says it finds itself. 
In an exclusive interview with IAM, which took place in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, venue for this year&rsquo;s European Patent Forum...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Euro patent progress confirmed as Commissioner fails to shine</title>
      <description><![CDATA[I have been in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, for the last couple of days, attending the European Patent Forum, organised by the EPO, the Slovenian government and the European Commission. It&rsquo;s been a very interesting event, looking at how the patent system may, can and should affect the development of clean technology.&nbsp;We have&nbsp;covered this&nbsp;on the&nbsp;blog before and it is going to become a very big topic for all IP owners &ndash; as the speeches some very clever people have been making here have proved. 
But enough of that! I have spent quite a bit of my time trying to find...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Will WIPO soon be dancing to a samba beat?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Here&rsquo;s a little bit of gossip for you. Take it with a pinch of salt as it will probably turn out to be a load of old rubbish. But you never know. So&nbsp;here goes. 
Within the next 10 days we should know the identity of the new Director-General of WIPO &ndash; the person who will succeed the current, and highly controversial (to say the least), incumbent Kamil Idris. There are 15 candidates for the job, but as is so often the case with these things, some have more of a chance of being elected than others. 
So, as Africa supplied the...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Maybe it's time for intermediaries to start talking regulation</title>
      <description><![CDATA[This blog has been banging on about it for a few weeks now and day by day it seems to get&nbsp;truer:&nbsp;it is an excellent time to be an intermediary in the IP market. Of course, intermediaries come in all shapes and forms; they help companies buy and sell patents, they arrange financings; and, as this article from the Dow Jones newswires explains, they also help fund IP litigation for plaintiffs that could otherwise not afford it in return for a share of any resulting pay-out. 
There is just no getting away from it, IP is an attractive investment right now. As...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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