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      <title>BLOG: EU patent court &quot;bound to fail&quot; unless plans are changed, warn European patent litigators</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Senior patent litigators in Europe have once again spoken out forcefully against current proposals for a unified European patent litigation system. In a strongly worded press release, the European Patent Lawyers&rsquo; Association has described the plans, which are due to be initialled on 22nd December by all member states of the EU except Spain and Italy, as &ldquo;not at all fit for purpose&rdquo;. A statement accompanying the release from the association&rsquo;s president Jochen Pagenberg&nbsp;claims that&nbsp;the current Polish presidency of the EU, the Commission and the European Parliament do not&nbsp;give &ldquo;the impression that they have paid any attention to users&rsquo; opinions&rdquo;; there...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: What IBM gets from selling patents to Google</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Last week it emerged that Google acquired a couple of hundred patents and related rights from IBM. The company has now done several of these deals with Big Blue and in total has expanded its portfolio by over 2,000 as a result of doing so. As everyone knows, Google needs patents because for many years the company chose to ignore them as a means of building and defending competitive advantage. It&rsquo;s a lesson that IBM learned many years ago (and which the likes of Microsoft and Apple understood a while back too) and as well as getting freedom to operate and...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: 2011 - the year it all changed</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The latest edition of&nbsp;IP Value - an International Guide for the Boardroom, IAM magazine&rsquo;s annual round-up of major IP developments around the world, is now available free of charge online. The 2012 edition looks at a variety of topics affecting rights owners in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, Asian and Australasia. As such, it is essential reading. It also features a short introduction from yours truly on why 2011 may turn out to be a pivotal year in IP&rsquo;s development as an asset class in its own right. Here it is, reproduced in full:  
A study published by the...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: The IP personalities of 2011</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Last year was a big one for intellectual property. In business, finance, policy and law there were major developments that will change the market forever. Given all that happened, selecting 2011&rsquo;s IP personalities of the year is a hard task. There are just so many candidates; especially because under the IAM blog&rsquo;s criteria it&rsquo;s not only individuals that get considered &ndash; organisations, countries, sectors and anything else you can think of are all entered into the mix too. However, after long consideration, we have come up with a list of people and entities who we believe made a significant mark on...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: RPX receives a timely boost as shares are upgraded</title>
      <description><![CDATA[RPX shares climbed by close to 9% yesterday following an upgrade from Barclays Capital, which announced it was moving them from a 2-EW rating to a 1-OW rating. Explaining its decision in a briefing paper, the bank&rsquo;s equity research team stated:  
&hellip; in our view, the underlying IP sector is one of secular sustainable growth, and we don&rsquo;t believe there have been material changes in industry drivers that should warrant lower valuations. Recent industry checks, positive meetings with management, and our analysis of key data supporting underlying growth drivers (rising NPE litigation activity, patent asset acquisition prices remaining relatively constant)...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>EVENT: BIO International Convention</title>
      <description><![CDATA[18-21 June, Boston, MAWhat’s your BIO?
Come to the BIO International Convention, June 18-21, 2012, in Boston, Mass., for the connections, partnerships and innovations to get business done. Join 15,000+ powerful biotech leaders from 65 countries and 4,000 companies for stellar networking events, a BIO Program offering important trends and perspectives on timely issues and a BIO Exhibition with 1,800+ companies showcasing the latest technologies, products and services. BIO One-on-One Partnering™ makes it easy to find potential partners and set up face-to-face meetings in the BIO Business Forum and the BIO Exhibition. Collaboration happens everywhere at BIO in Boston this June. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: As we take a break, here are the top blog stories of the last 30 days and for 2011 as a whole</title>
      <description><![CDATA[And so 2011 draws to an end. It&rsquo;s been an excellent 12 months for IAM. We finish with more subscribers than we have ever had before, as well as a blog following that is far greater than it was back in January. Throw in a sell-out IPBC in San Francisco that saw us ring the NYSE closing bell and there is no doubt that we&rsquo;ve had a memorable year. Of course, none of it would have been possible without the subscribers, delegates, advertisiers and sponsors who help to keep us in business: many thanks to each and every one of you....]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>REPORT: Amazon sent back to the Patent Office</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Federal Court of Appeal recently released its decision regarding Amazon.com's now famous patent application for a 'one click' internet shopping method, filed in 1998. The patent application has survived this latest test and has been returned to the Patent Office for expedited examination. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>aabecassis@fasken.com (Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP)</author>
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      <title>REPORT: Supreme Court reverses Eve-Eva trademark decision </title>
      <description><![CDATA[In May 2010 then Deputy Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Noah Shalev Shlomovits ruled that Eva cigarettes, produced by Aktsionerno Droujestvo Bulgartabac Holdings in Bulgaria, were not confusingly similar to Eve cigarettes, produced by Philip Morris. The Supreme Court recently ruled on Philip Morris's appeal of this decision.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>mfactor@ipfactor.co.il (JMB Factor &amp; Co)</author>
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      <title>REPORT: Preliminary skirmish concludes in Apple versus Samsung down under </title>
      <description><![CDATA[The opening gambit in the Australian arm of the global dispute between Apple and Samsung has finally drawn to a close. The High Court of Australia refused Apple's request for special leave to appeal from a decision of the Full Bench of the Federal Court denying a preliminary injunction against the launch of the Galaxy Tab 10.1. 

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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>m.summerfield@watermark.com.au (Watermark)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: Business method patent problems down under (and maybe in the UK and Canada too)</title>
      <description><![CDATA[I received an email late last week from Mark Summerfield, who writes the excellent Patentology blog which looks at all things IP from an Australian perspective. He has identified what he thinks is a major area of concern with the way IP Australia, the patent issuing authority down under, deals with applications relating to business methods. This is what he has to say:  
There are disturbing things going on within IP Australia which, in my view, are not getting the international attention they deserve. Over the past couple of years, the Patent Office has, for all intents and purposes, been...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: Apple may never be better placed to negotiate a beneficial end to the smartphone wars</title>
      <description><![CDATA[So what started out as a case against HTC at the ITC built round 10 patents ends up with Apple prevailing on just one. The victory Apple secured yesterday means that the Taiwanese Android manufacturer will be unable to import phones using technology covered by the patent into the US after the middle of April 2012. But the likelihood is that HTC and/or Google will develop a work-around solution before then and nothing much will change (apparently, it's done already).  
As Apple contemplates its next move it&rsquo;s worth remembering that in the past HTC has made it pretty clear that...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: In suing Google, BT will hope to avoid its fate in the last high-profile patent case it fought  </title>
      <description><![CDATA[The news that BT has entered the smartphone wars in order to sue Google for myriad alleged Android infringements of six of its patents sends me back to the last time BT got involved in a high-profile US patent litigation. That was 11 years ago, when it sued Prodigy in New York, claiming that the ISP had infringed a patent BT owned which covered hyperlink technology. The patent in suit was not core to the company in any way; in fact, its existence had only been discovered during an audit of its portfolio. The case did not end well for BT,...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: There'll be no deal on a unified patent system for Europe, says EU presidency</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In what will be welcome news for many European patent litigators and judges, the Polish presidency of the EU has stated that it is unlikely a deal to create a unified patent court will be agreed this year. However, it's not because all of a sudden negotiators are worried about the way the proposals are drafted; instead, it's because there is still no agreement on where the court will be situated. &quot;Essentially the whole package is negotiated, it&rsquo;s final ... Nevertheless, due to the resistance to compromise of one or two member states, we will not decide this year on the...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: As the Chinese embrace IP, foreign companies are still failing to to do the same in China</title>
      <description><![CDATA[There are few people based in Europe who know more about the IP marketplace in China than Ian Harvey, chairman of the UK&rsquo;s Intellectual Property Institute. Spend any time with him and very quickly you will discover his conviction that the bad press China gets with regard to IP does not tell the full story. Having visited China myself a few times now, it&rsquo;s a view I share.  
While not wanting to downplay the IP problems that foreign companies do face, if we only focus on these we miss a hugely important developing story &ndash; the way in which the...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: Why RIM does not have to be another Kodak</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Rumours abound that RIM has been negotiating a licensing deal &ndash; or even a total buy-out &ndash; with competitors in the smartphone business.  
 
Despite some less than flattering evaluations of the quality of its patent portfolio, RIM undeniably maintains some highly valuable assets. Go to any conference or seminar and you will likely still see BlackBerrys outnumbering any other type of mobile phone, and that must count for something. RIM&rsquo;s flagship product is still hugely popular in the face of huge competition, and BlackBerry OS is the software that runs 11% of the world&rsquo;s smartphones. In light of this,...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jellis@theipmediagroup.com (Jack Ellis)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: Kodak should not count on a big patent sale to save the day</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Kodak&rsquo;s agonising descent into bankruptcy finally ended earlier today when the 130-year old company filed for Chapter 11 protection in New York. Since August Kodak has been attempting to sell 1,100 patents &ndash; a portfolio which some commentators have estimated could be worth as much as $3 billion. In recent weeks, the company has also filed a series of lawsuits against the likes of Samsung, Fujifilm, Apple and HTC, alleging various infringements of its patent rights.  
The legal action was launched after a reorganisation at Kodak which put IP into its own business unit. A spokesman explained: &ldquo;It's not just...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: CPA's $1.5 billion sale is another sign that IP has become a mainstream business </title>
      <description><![CDATA[Yesterday CPA Global issued a press release confirming that it is to be acquired by private equity firm Cinven. Although the sum involved has not been disclosed, Bloomberg reports that the deal values CPA at &pound;950 million ($1.5 billion). In January 2010, when mezzanine finance outfit ICG acquired a 49% stake in the global IP outsourcing business, CPA&rsquo;s overall valuation was set at &pound;440 million. So that means it has doubled in value in two years. If that does not tell you something about changing perceptions of IP then I do not know what does.  
In the press release Cinven...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: Four days to secure a cut-price place at this year's IP Business Congress</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The super early bird discount rate for the IP Business Congress 2012&nbsp;- being held in Cascais, near Lisbon, Portugal, from 24th to 26th June - expires this Saturday, 21st January. If you sign up by then you will get a delegate place for&nbsp;&euro;1,150, which represents a&nbsp;&euro;350 saving on the full price of&nbsp;&euro;1,500.
The IP Business Congress is the world's pre-eminent event dedicated to issues around the maximisation of IP value. We are in the process of assembling a world class speaking faculty which will be exploring a variety of issues, including:
&bull; IP as a route to economic recovery.  
&bull; The future...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>REPORT: Review of the patent system </title>
      <description><![CDATA[Under the existing patent regime, two types of patent are granted: standard patents and short-term patents. As this system has been in place for more than 10 years, the government has carried out a public consultation seeking views on a review of the patent system. 

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      <author>menalo@wilgrist.com (Wilkinson &amp; Grist)</author>
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      <title>REPORT: BOOST gets a boost</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Australian Trademarks Office recently decided in favour of Boost Juice Holdings Pty Ltd in its opposition to an application by Boost Foods Holdings Pty Ltd to register the mark BOOST FOODS. The BOOST FOODS application was rejected in its entirety, as Boost Juice had established the "reputation" opposition ground under Section 60 of the Trademarks Act.]]></description>
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      <author>r.demenezes@watermark.com.au (Watermark)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: If we have reached an IP tipping point, then strategy has to mean more than litigation  </title>
      <description><![CDATA[A recent study suggests that companies are turning to their intellectual property to provide a tonic that can sustain them through economic uncertainty. But are they giving undue priority to enforcement at the expense of other methods of IP value creation?
At the end of last week, CPA Global outlined some of the results of its third State of the IP Industry Survey. The study asked a range of in-house IP professionals and IP lawyers about trends and developments they had noted in IP practice during 2011.
In total, 78% of corporate IP professionals surveyed stated that budget control had been one of...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jellis@theipmediagroup.com (Jack Ellis)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: Nokia again shows that working with NPEs is just another option for operating companies</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Sisvel, the Italian non-practising entity, has acquired 450 patents and applications from Nokia, 350 of which the Finnish company has declared essential &ldquo;to second, third and fourth-generation communications standards, including GSM (Global Systems for Mobile communications), UMTS/WCDMA (Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service / Wide-Band Code Division Multiple Access) and LTE (Long Term Evolution)&rdquo;.  
This is the second time that Nokia has done a deal with an NPE recently. Last September it sold a portfolio of 2,000 patents and related rights to MOSAID. Unlike that deal, however, there is no indication that Nokia will have any on-going financial interest in the licensing...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: Acacia acquisition marks the start of a new and more ambitious stage for the NPE</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Acacia shares are on the rise today with the news that a subsidiary of the NPE has acquired 4G wireless technology company ADAPTIX Inc for $160 million cash. Although Acacia has worked closely in partnership with SMEs, and more recently larger corporations and universities, to help them monetise their IP, this is the first time it has gone out a bought a whole company. That it has financed the deal using straight dollars and cents shows just how far it has come. Little more than three years ago, its whole business was not even valued at $100 million.  
According to...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: Ericsson makes major patent monetisation play with promotion for its chief IP officer</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Kasim Alfalahi, who last week this blog named as one of the IP personalities of 2011, is going up in the world. Reuters&nbsp;states that effective immediately Alfalahi, who has been chief IP officer at Ericsson since 2005, will be reporting directly to the company&rsquo;s President and CEO, Hans Vestberg. Up to now, he has been responsible to Ericsson&rsquo;s CTO.  
Last year it emerged that on Alfalahi&rsquo;s watch Ericsson had doubled its annual licensing revenues to over $700 million, but that the company believed this was only the start. In an interview with Bloomberg in November, Vestberg stated that he expected...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: New gTLD application launch heralds start of a different kind of internet</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) - effectively the internet&rsquo;s governing body - will be accepting applications for new general top-level domains (gTLDs) from today, despite calls from industry and government to re-think the roll-out.
For $185,000, brands will be able to apply for right-of-the-dot domain names of their choice. Generic names &ndash; eg, .bank, .car and .beer - will be possible, as well as brand-specific domains such as .canon or .xerox, and domains in non-Latin scripts. Furthermore, applicants will need to be able to demonstrate an ongoing and adequate financial and technical capacity, as they will also act...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jellis@theipmediagroup.com (Jack Ellis)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: IBM tops US grant charts yet again, but the threat from Samsung grows</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In what will count as among the least surprising news stories of 2012, for the 19th year in succession IBM secured the most patent grants at the USPTO during 2011. And, once again, it was a record number: 6,180 - up 5% on the 2010 total. Just to confirm that the status quo is alive and kicking, Samsung came in second (4,894), just as it has done since I can remember. However, elsewhere in the top 10, there has been some movement. Microsoft, third in 2010, is down in sixth place this time, having seen a decline of over 700 in...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: IP Business Congress super early bird delegate rate expires in under two weeks</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The speaking faculty for this year&rsquo;s IP Business Congress &ndash; which is taking place in Cascais, near Lisbon, Portugal, from 24th to 26th June &ndash; is filling up very nicely. We already have a number of top names confirmed and you can expect quite a few more to be added over the coming months. Given all that happened in the IP market during 2011, and what is yet to come, there will be plenty to talk about.  
There are a number of mouth-watering sessions to look forward to. Among them is the second plenary scheduled for the morning of 26th...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>EVENT: LESI 2012 Annual Conference – Commercialising Innovation to save the world</title>
      <description><![CDATA[1-4 April, AucklandThe Conference is open to professionals and entrepreneurs interested in intellectual property and licensing across all industries, including technology, finance, accounting, investment, academia, research and law,. The global licensing world will descend on Auckland, New Zealand, to explore how innovation might be commercialized to ‘save the world’ from disease, poverty, food shortages, over-population and environmental destruction. Speakers include – Gunter Pauli, author, entrepreneur and creator of The Blue Economy; Nick Gerritsen, leading business start-up experts and knowledge brokers; Mark Stevenson, author and speaker on future narratives institutional innovation, engineered serendipity and learning; Francis Gurry, Director General of the WIPO,...]]></description>
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      <title>REPORT: Enactment of Korea-EU Free Trade Agreement triggers amendments to IP laws</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Korea-EU Free Trade Agreement recently came into effect. As a result, a number of acts that directly relate to intellectual property have been amended. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jlee4@ip.kimchang.com (Kim &amp; Chang)</author>
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      <title>REPORT: Warning letters must conform to Fair Trade Commission warning letter guidelines</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Two recent Taiwan Supreme Administrative Court decisions confirm that IP owners are required to follow specified preliminary procedures when issuing warning letters to assert rights or to request the cessation of infringement. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>yulan.kuo@taiwanlaw.com (Formosa Transnational)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: Chinese government to offer incentives for foreign IP consultants to open up in the country</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A report on the China Law blog reveals that the Chinese government has revised its Catalogue for Guidance for Foreign Investment. As the blog explains: &ldquo;It is a central policy of the Chinese government that foreign investment must be made in a manner that is consistent with Chinese policy and in a way that will promote China's development. China therefore follows a policy of guided investment, and the Catalog (sic) is the guide.&rdquo;  
The Out-Law blog explains that within the catalogue there are four categories:  
&bull; permitted: the standard category, with no particular restrictive or favourable treatment;  
&bull;...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[5-9 May, Washington, DCMore than 9,000 intellectual property professionals will convene May 5–9 in Washington, D.C. for INTA’s 2012 Annual Meeting. The Annual Meeting is the premier trademark event for networking, continuing legal education, and committee and client meetings; and offers many different educational opportunities, allowing you to tailor your training to fit your specific needs.   This year’s Annual Meeting will feature valuable skill-building workshops, industry breakouts, interactive table topics, and trademark law sessions focused on international topics; as well as an exhibition hall boasting nearly 100 exhibitors debuting new products and services to help protect your brand.]]></description>
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      <title>BLOG: Could co-operation help pull pharma back from the cliff edge? </title>
      <description><![CDATA[AstraZeneca has announced that it is to shed over 7,000 jobs worldwide; this is in addition to over 20,000 jobs that it has already cut since 2007. And the UK-based company is not expecting a reversal in fortunes any time soon. According to an official statement the outlook is gloomy: &ldquo;Revenue in 2012 will continue to be adversely affected by government interventions on pricing, and ongoing generic competition, including the anticipated loss of market exclusivity for Seroquel IR and Atacand in global markets, as well as for Crestor in Canada.&rdquo;&nbsp; 
 
This news is unlikely to come as a huge shock...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>hsloan@theipmediagroup.com (Helen Sloan)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[There will be an awful lot written about the Facebook IPO over the coming weeks and months by people a lot more qualified than me to be making comments. However, it would be wrong not to point out one very obvious aspect of the planned float: the extent to which the success of the Facebook business is dependent on its ability to leverage intangible and intellectual assets. Looking through the company's&nbsp;S1 filing that was made yesterday, what shines through is the importance of maintaining and building relationships with users and advertisers: without the first, the second will drift away. What&rsquo;s more,...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: From smartphone wars through Chinese culture to hiring top IP talent - IAM 52 is now out </title>
      <description><![CDATA[The latest issue of IAM is now available to subscribers online. Our cover story, written Australian patent attorney Mark Summerfield, who is also the author of the Patentology blog, takes a detailed look at the smartphone patent wars. With cases being fought around the world and different companies employing different strategies as they seek to gain the upper hand, Mark explores how things have got to where they are and what may happen next, as well as explaining why Steve Jobs&rsquo; threat of &ldquo;thermonuclear&rdquo; attack against Android is very unlikely to pay dividends for Apple. Sticking with mobile communications, Art Monk...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: The top blog stories for January 2012</title>
      <description><![CDATA[During January, the IAM blog had 21,732 unique users. They made 81,979 visits. In descending order, the stories they read most were:  
05-Jan-12 The IP personalities of 2011  
13-Jan-12 Acacia acquisition marks the start of a new and more ambitious stage for...  
22-Jan-12 Acacia lands Microsoft and Samsung as licensees following ADAPTIX purchase  
16-Jan-12 Nokia again shows that working with NPEs is just another option for...  
17-Jan-12 If we have reached an IP tipping point, then strategy has to mean more than...  
19-Jan-12 Kodak should not count on a big patent sale to save the...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>REPORT: Registrar reclassifies goods following Nice changes</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The 10th Edition of the Nice International Classification of Goods and Services came into force on 1st January 2012. The revisions and changes made by the new edition will affect the Trademarks Registry's cross-search list of identical or similar earlier registered trademarks and applications, used in the examination of new applications for registration in certain classes.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>helentang@wilgrist.com (Wilkinson &amp; Grist)</author>
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      <title>REPORT: Internet protocol as personal data</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The National High Court has confirmed the Data Protection Agency's rejection of a request by Productores de Música de España to process data regarding the internet protocol addresses of internet users in order to combat online music piracy.]]></description>
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      <title>BLOG: The NPE reality is very different to the media myth</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Yesterday this blog discussed a paper produced by Tom Ewing and Robin Feldman for the Stanford Technology Law Review entitled &quot;The Giants Among Us&quot;. It is, we stated, a serious piece of work looking at the alleged effect that a certain kind of NPE - the so-called mass patent aggregator - is having on the US patent marketplace. The paper is a temprate&nbsp;and important contribution to the debate about NPEs&nbsp;in the US.&nbsp;While people might not agree with the paper's conclusions, they invite a sober response and may open up a debate that has become pretty sterile - with anti-patent rhetoric often...]]></description>
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      <title>BLOG: The case against mass patent aggregation</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Tom Ewing is a regular contributor to IAM magazine and this blog. His areas of speciality&nbsp;are NPEs, Intellectual Ventures in particular, and the privateer model of assertion, through which IP owners (both NPEs and operating companies) use third parties to manage/enforce patents on their behalf. Ewing has got together with Robin Feldman, Professor of Law &amp; Director of LAB Project, UC Hastings Law, to pen a paper for the Stanford Technology Law Review. And The Giants Among Us is one of the most important contributions to the debate about NPEs, patent aggregators and the state of the US patent marketplace that...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: Google treading the warpath as it puts Motorola purchase to the test</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Motorola Mobility has filed suit in the Southern District of Florida this week against Apple, accusing the company of infringing six of its patents in the iPhone 4S and iCloud products. 
 
Moto has been embroiled in various suits with Apple, but this is the first since Google&rsquo;s proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of the company was announced last summer. While that purchase still awaits the seal of approval from US antitrust watchdogs, the takeover agreement reached between the two companies is already in place. One of the clauses of that agreement is that Motorola must obtain permission from Google if it...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: US politicians will not risk electoral unpopularity over IP</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The derailment of the SOPA and PIPA bills in the US Congress last week has been disappointing news for copyright holders in the media and entertainment businesses that the laws were intended to protect. The proposed legislation has not been killed off entirely, but what may concern all IP owners &ndash; even those opposed to SOPA and PIPA - is the way that the controversy has revealed how quickly US politicians will change their minds when faced with an apparently unpopular policy.&nbsp; 
 
The Protect IP Act (PIPA) was first introduced to the US Senate in May last year by Democrat...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: New pan-European patent system is likely to be delayed &quot;for at least a few more months&quot;</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A final agreement on the creation of a unitary patent litigation system that would cover at least 25 of the 27 EU member states is set to be delayed by months, according to a report in yesterday&rsquo;s Financial Times. The cause of the hold-up is the dispute between France, Germany and the UK over where the central court should be located. In the proposals which were expected to be signed-off at a meeting of the EU Competiveness Council in December, Paris was named as the venue, but neither the UK nor Germany would agree to that. The former wanted London, while...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>REPORT: Apple loses its IPAD trademark in China </title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Intermediate People’s Court in Shenzhen, Guangdong has rejected Apple’s claim of ownership of the IPAD trademark, holding that Proview Technology Shenzhen Company Limited had prior registration of the mark. Proview has also filed a claim of approximately US$1.6 billion against Apple for alleged infringement of the trademark. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>REPORT: SPC decisions rain down from the ECJ</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Towards the end of 2011 there was a flurry of activity at the Court of Justice of the European Union, with Europe’s highest court handing down a number of decisions relevant to supplementary protection certificates – a unique form of IP right that provides an additional monopoly that comes into force after expiry of a patent. ]]></description>
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      <title>BLOG: InterDigital did the right thing and the future still looks bright</title>
      <description><![CDATA[InterDigital&rsquo;s share price dropped sharply yesterday after the company announced that it was ending its attempts to find a buyer for its patents and would return to licensing as its key IP revenue generation strategy.
Some have characterised this news as yet more evidence of the bursting of the patent bubble. The important message from the story, however, is that we still have some way to go before increased interest in IP is paired with widespread, sophisticated understanding of IP as a business asset.  
A sale is, by its very nature, a one-off event; the success of a patent sale cannot...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: Are you paying PR people to waste your money?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[I have just received the following invitation:
Home Truths  
I am contacting you to invite you to [name removed's] annual Residential Conference on 29 February at [address removed] kicking off at 10am.  
The [conference name removed] brings together every major player in the industry &ndash; including lenders, developers and council leaders. The Government will be represented by the climate change minister Greg Barker and the conference will also hear Kate Barker CBE revisit her Barker Review of Housing Supply.  
With housing still high on the news agenda, this event will again be of massive interest to all areas of...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: Acacia lands Microsoft and Samsung as licensees following ADAPTIX purchase</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Acacia has concluded two licensing agreements covering patents in the ADAPTIX portfolio since it purchased the company for straight cash earlier this month. And they are both with big players. According to 8-K filings made by the NPE on 12th January, ADAPTIX has done deals with Microsoft and Samsung under terms that are not disclosed. Presumably, however, the agreements allow Acacia to begin to recoup the $160 million it paid for the&nbsp;wireless technology business. On the day that the acquisition was announced, Acacia also went to the Eastern District of Texas to assert&nbsp;ADAPTIX&nbsp;patents against companies including AT&amp;T, Nokia Siemens and Motorola....]]></description>
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      <title>BLOG: IP Business Congress super early bird rate expires at midnight tomorrow</title>
      <description><![CDATA[As is always the case when the IP Business Congress super early bird rate is about to expire we have seen a surge in registrations over the last few days. There is stil time to secure a discounted place (&euro;1,150 instead of&nbsp;&euro;1,500) at the world's leading event focusing on the nexus between IP, the business world and finance, but the clock is now ticking down to midnight UK time tomorrow, Saturday 21st January. That's when the price goes up. If you want to take advantage of the&nbsp;&euro;350 saving that is currently on offer, you need to act now and click here....]]></description>
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