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      <title>Defensive patent aggregator faces US legal action over alleged troll-style behaviour</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Limelight, a company that provides internet content delivery services,&nbsp;has filed&nbsp;a request for a&nbsp;declaratory judgment in a US federal court in Arizona&nbsp;against Allied Security Trust (AST), the defensive patent aggregation organisation. 
The CEO of AST is Dan McCurdy, who is also the chairman and founder of the anti-NPE/troll database service&nbsp;PatentFreedom. Last September in Gothenburg, I heard McCurdy deliver a very strident speech in which he roundly condemned the activities of NPEs, described them as a major threat to the future of US innovation and urged operating companies to be far more aggressive in pursuing them. Recently, with his AST hat on McCurdy...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Will Nortel become a patent licensing company?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[This blog has been keeping an eye on events relating to the Nortel bankruptcy for a while now. A recent article on the TelecomTV website sheds a little more light as decision day looms on what to do with the company's patent portfolio. Interestingly, a senior executive of one of the companies charged with going through the collection&nbsp;believes there may not be a sale. &quot;I think there&rsquo;s an equally likely chance or at least a significant chance that they will not part with these assets and they may go down the route of a public licensing company,&rdquo; says Mosaid&rsquo;s CEO, John...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Brazil lists potential IP targets in trade war with US</title>
      <description><![CDATA[If there is going to be a compromise in the US/Brazil trade war, in which American IP owners are on the frontline, it looks like it is only going to happen at the very last minute. To ratchet up the pressure on the Obama administration over the dispute concerning subsidies paid to US cotton producers, the Brazilians yesterday published a list of IP&nbsp;rights that&nbsp;could&nbsp;be subjected to sanctions in as little as three weeks time.
According to Brazil's Official Gazette (third column) &nbsp;13 rights are to be targeted. My Portuguese is not the best, but I think I am right in saying that...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>International work-sharing is key to tackling quality and backlog problems, says Kappos</title>
      <description><![CDATA[USPTO Director David Kappos was in London for a flying visit last week to attend the launch of a new publication that reports on the economic damage being done by the global patent backlog, as well as to announce a major work sharing initiative with the UK IP Office. While he was over here I had the chance to sit down with him to talk through some of the major issues he is currently grappling with. 
The first thing to say is that Kappos's mandate to deal with the myriad problems the USPTO faces comes from the very top. President Obama...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Another big name US IP boutique bites the dust</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The venerable American&nbsp;IP law firm Darby &amp; Darby has confirmed that it is in the process of dissolving. When it ceases to trade it will follow those other once seemingly impregnable New York boutiques Pennie &amp; Edmonds, Morgan &amp;&nbsp;Finnegan and Fish &amp; Neave into oblivion. 
I became editor of Managing Intellectual Property in 1994 and how things have changed in the States since then. While a number of the big boutiques do still seem to be going strong - the likes of Kenyon &amp; Kenyon, Finnegan Henderson, Fish &amp; Richardson, Fitzpatrick Cella, Brinks Hofer and Oblon Spivak, for example - many...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Patent quality and quantity rankings show significant differences</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Intellectual Property Today has published a list of what it describes as the &quot;2010 Top Patent Firms&quot; in the US. It is based on the number of US patents obtained for clients in 2009. In the latest issue of IAM, published at the beginning of February, we did a ranking of US law firms based on the quality of patents they obtain for their clients.
Of course, quantity is easy to measure - you just look at the record and count. Quality is always going to be subjective and so assessing it is far more difficult. We chose to run with the...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>New report reveals IV's Ocean Tomo auction buying spree</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Avancept LLP has published a new report entitled Publicly Auctioned Patent Buyers: Intellectual Ventures &amp; Others. This seeks to identify the organisations that bought patents at te publicly-held Open Tomo auctions that took place between 2006 and 2009, up to - and I think - including the last one that occurred before the OT auction business was sold to ICAP. It covers the 300 lots that were sold at the groundbreaking events which, on occasions, generated a great deal of money. It has always been widely rumoured, though never confirmed, that IV was the principal buyer at the sales; this report...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Brazil close to declaring war on US IP</title>
      <description><![CDATA[At some stage, possibly quite soon, some US patent owners could get very angry with both their own government and the government of Brazil. Yesterday the latter stated that as part of a trade dispute with the US&nbsp;over subsidies to American cotton producers, it may bust patents to the value of $238 million as part of overall sanctions worth close to $830 million. In other words,&nbsp;entirely innocent US patent owners in Brazil&nbsp;stand to lose significant amounts of revenue as the conequence of an argument that has absolutely nothing to do with them. If this actually comes to pass, my guess&nbsp;is that...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>There is more IP litigation in China than anywhere else on earth</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The statistics coming out of China get more and more astounding. The Supreme People's Court has announced that in 2009 30,626 civil IP cases were filed. That's up over 25% on the 2008 figure. What's more, last year the courts decided 30,509 cases, a rise of nearly 30%. I have not yet seen any figures for IP cases in the US for 2009, but I would be surprised if the number came anywhere close to what is being reported for China. That said, PWC recently reported that in 2008 2,896 patent infringement cases were filed in American courts. The Supreme People's...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>IP exchange will not make target opening date, but CEO hopes for second quarter progress</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Intellectual Property Exchange International (IPXI) is not going to make its initial target of being open for business during the first quarter of 2010. However, CEO Gerard Pannekoek reports that the exchange is attracting significant interest and could be operating by the end of June. 
I spoke with Pannekoek last week and he told me that since he joined IPXI at the end of November 2009 he has met with 25 US and European companies that most people would consider to be &quot;in the top category of global businesses&quot;. Of these, he said, all but one had been &quot;extremely positive&quot;...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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