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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>
      <link>http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/detail.aspx?g=49cda787-bf9c-49db-9cdf-14529d413dfb</link>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <category>IP management</category>
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      <title>TiVo investors make a mint after positive CAFC patent ruling</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Back in November, I blogged on the transcript of a conference call involving TiVo CEO Tom Rogers and other members of the company board. Part of the transcript covered discussions on possible the outcome of an upcoming&nbsp;CAFC ruling on whether to confirm a lower court's decision in&nbsp;TiVo's litigation with EchoStar and DISH. Were the&nbsp;CAFC to&nbsp;side with TiVo and uphold the original judgment, I said, things would look very rosey for the company. I ended&nbsp;the blog like this:
For their part, investors also have a big call to make. Do they stick with the company and/or buy stock now in the hope that...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>The patent office Ponzi scheme</title>
      <description><![CDATA[An interesting piece in the Mercury News about on-going efforts to sort out the &quot;broken agency&quot; that is the US Patent and Trademark Office (not my words, but&nbsp;David Kappos's) contains&nbsp;a&nbsp;powerful quote from Commerce Secretary Gary Locke.&nbsp;Referring to the way in which the office is funded, Lockle states: &quot;In some ways, it's like a Ponzi scheme.&quot;
That rang a little bell in my head. Hadn't I&nbsp;seen someone else&nbsp;use exactly the same phrase about patent office funding quite recently? Then I remembered. Yes, I had. It was&nbsp;Ciar&aacute;n McGinley, the Controller&nbsp;of the European Patent Office, in&nbsp;an article he wrote for issue 38 of IAM:
The global...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>IAM launches major patent and technology licensing research project</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The IAM research team is beginning work on a major new project designed to identify the world's leading patent and technology licensing lawyers, attorneys and practices. The final research will be featured in both IAM magazine and a special supplement that will be published in time&nbsp;to be distributed to delegates&nbsp;at the annual meeting of LES USA &amp; Canada. IAM recently became the organisation's Official Strategic Media Partner. The research will, of course, also be made available to all of IAM's subscribers.

As readers of this blog know full well, a growing number of companies around the world are seeking to monetise their...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Goldman Sachs highlights the risks of failing to manage corporate reputation</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In IAM we&nbsp;recently started a new series in which Nir Kossovsky of Steel City Re looks at the way companies manage their reputations and the effects this can have on the performance of their stock. It seems pretty clear to us that the way companies are perceived in the markets and by their customers will have an impact on people's willingness to invest in them; this can either be because they are part of a particular sector or because of their individual circumstances, or maybe a combination of the two. 
Well, today the New York Times reports that Goldman Sachs is...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Battistelli will be EPO president, but important questions remain unanswered</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Just under 10 months to the day since the IAM blog broke the news that Alison Brimelow had decided to stand down as the President of the European Patent Office, we now know who is going to succeed her. As seemed likely when he narrowly missed out in February, Beno&icirc;t Battistelli finally crossed the finishing line yesterday when he secured the required 75% qualified majority vote from the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation. In doing so, he saw off the challenges of both Roland Grossenbacher and Susanne Sivborg. 
My understanding is that Battistelli got 27 votes yesterday, which was...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Beno&#238;t Battistelli announced as next EPO president</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Following three&nbsp;unsuccessful rounds of voting, Benoit Battistelli, has today been elected as the next president of the European Patent Office. The Director General of the French National Institute of Industrial Property received the necessary three quarters of the votes cast by members of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation at their meeting in Munich today and will succeed Alison Brimelow&nbsp;in July 2010.
We will update this story as and when more information comes through from the EPO.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>sclover@iam-magazine.com (Sara-Jayne Clover, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Today could be the day we finally discover the identity of the next EPO president</title>
      <description><![CDATA[I wonder if&nbsp;Beno&icirc;t Battistelli, Director General of the French National Institute of Industrial Property, slept well on Sunday night. On Monday, members of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation will meet yet again to choose a successor to Alison Brimelow as President of the European Patent Office. The last time they voted, in early February, Batistelli ended up just one short of&nbsp;receiving the qualified majority he needed to get the job.
Logically, you would expect that&nbsp;on Monday&nbsp;Batistelli will finally cross the finishing line. In the&nbsp;three weeks since the last ballot there has been plenty of time for member states to...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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