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      <title>Trouble at Clifford Chance?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[World Trademark Review, like IAM a part of The IP Meda Group, is reporting on a flurry of rumours doing the rounds in London that Clifford Chance could be about to downgrade its IP operation - and perhaps even abandon it altogether. The firm has ruled out the latter, but it does not seem to be denying that big chages could be on the way:
&quot;We're not pulling out of intellectual property wholesale,&quot; the firm said in a statement. &quot;As part of our partnership review we have been looking at practice groups across the firm, including intellectual property. It's too early to...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Judge companies on what they do about their IP rights, not on what they say</title>
      <description><![CDATA[What with everthing that has been going on recently I overlooked a pieceof work produced by the law firm Freshfields. The Global Intellectual Property&nbsp;Survey 2009: Maximising IP value in the downturn set out to determine whether difficult economic conditions have had an effect on the way in which the world's biggest companies view and use their IP rights:
Over Q1 and Q2 this year, our IP practice surveyed the attitudes of 130 senior executives from leading European and US companies operating internationally in more than 25 jurisdictions and with an average annual revenue of between $500m and $5bn to gauge their approaches...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Applications for EPO president position formally requested</title>
      <description><![CDATA[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 demonstrate &quot;in-depth understanding of the patent system and of the needs of an international organisation thorough knowledge and proven practical application of modern management methods a genuine aptitude for communication, negotiating skills and the ability to make&nbsp;[your] opinions count&quot;. You also have to&nbsp;be a national of a contracting state of the European Patent Organisation and to...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/detail.aspx?g=9b2501f7-1afc-443a-94f1-f6b124a1e9f0</link>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <category>IP politics</category>
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      <title>Interviews with Phelps of Microsoft, Peters of Philips and other top CIPOs available to view </title>
      <description><![CDATA[The final batch of video interviews&nbsp;conducted at the IP Business Congress last week are now available to view. They are:
&bull; Marshall Phelps, VP of IP policy and strategy at Microsoft, and David Kline, co-author of Rembrandts in the Attic, talking about their new book Burning the Ships: IP and the transformation of Microsoft. They also discuss the role of the chief intellectual property officer and Phelps explains what attributes he believes a good CIPO should possess. To see this interview, click here. 
&bull; Ruud Peters, CEO of Philips IP &amp; Standards, and Caroline Kamerbeek, the head of communications there, talk about...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>More names enter the fray in the battle to be the next EPO president</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The list of potential candidates for the president's job at the European Patent Office in succession to Alison Brimelow, who will be standing down in the middle of next year, is growing. In addition, to Roland Grossenbacher of the Swiss Patent Office, another name to have more or less formally entered the fray is Jesper Kongstad. He is the head of the Danish Patent Office and another stalwart of the EPO's administrative council. 
Given that Denmark is, like Switzerland, a relatively small country, but, unlike Switzerland, is part of the European Union, it could be that he is a better bet...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/detail.aspx?g=285cfd50-b739-44e7-88b3-28a3378c5278</link>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Some reflections on the IP Business Congress</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The IAM team is now back home in the UK after a week on the road in the US for the IP Business Congress. There will be an extensive review of what happened at the meeting in the next issue of the magazine, which comes out at the end of July, but I thought I would share a few things with you now.
&bull; First of all, the turn-out was excellent. We had 370 people with us at the Four Seasons which, given the economic situation, was really pleasing. Clearly there are a lot of people out there who are now buying...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Get involved in Chinese IP policy making if you want to make a difference</title>
      <description><![CDATA[During the presentation on China he made at the IP Business Congress, Intellectual Property Institute chairman Ian Harvey stated that there is no point in worrying about IP protection in the country, or complaining about it, if you do not engage with it. He observed that a recent Chinese government delegation to the UK came in&nbsp;the hope of getting comments from British businesses about&nbsp;proposed amendments to the Chinese Patent Act (now introduced and due to come into force on 1st October). The delegation got no feedback at all. Any British companies that now find themselves inconvenienced by the new legislation will...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Video interviews with IP Hall of Fame inductees now online </title>
      <description><![CDATA[Three more video interviews conducted at the IP Business Congress are now available to view. These are with three of the five people inducted into the IP Hall of Fame at a special Gala Dinner, which took place on Monday evening at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago. The three individuals concerned are: Dolores Hanna, the first female president of the INTA; Michael Kirk, the former executive director of the AIPLA; and Niels Reimers, the former head of the technology licensing operation at Stanford University. Click on their names below to access the interviews.
Dolores Hanna
Michael Kirk
Niels Reimers]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Ocean Tomo does ratings deal with France's state bank</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Those who may have thought that Ocean Tomo's sale of its transactions business to ICAP last week signalled the beginning of&nbsp;the end for the firm are going to have to think again. The Chicago-based merchant banc has agreed a working protocol with Caisse des D&eacute;p&ocirc;ts, the development bank owned by the French state, that is expected to lead to the creation in the autumn of the first ratings platform for European patents. This would be an OT/Caisse des D&eacute;p&ocirc;ts&nbsp;joint&nbsp;venture&nbsp;based on the ratings platform that Ocean Tomo already has for US patents. I understand that the new platform will rate patents granted...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>An interview with AIPLA executive director Todd Dickinson</title>
      <description><![CDATA[During the IP Business Congress, we conducted a number of video interviews with speakers and delegates. Over the next few days we will be uploading these and putting them on both the IAM and IPBC websites.
To kick things off, I am linking to an interview with AIPLA executive director Todd Dickinson. In this, he talks about David Kappos's nomination as the next Director of the USPTO; the progress of the proposed patent reform legislation through Congress; the changing environment for US IP owners; and the Supreme Court's decision to&nbsp;hear the Bilski case.
Todd Dickinson interview.&nbsp;&nbsp;]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <category>IP politics</category>
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