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      <title>Making the case for patents by making a case against them</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Using the Paul Allen litigation as a hook, a piece entitled &quot;Software patents hurt everyone, but especially SMBs&quot;, written by PC World's Katherine Noyes, rehashes a lot of the old arguments made against software patents. It's a remarkably unsurprising piece that adds nothing to the debate. However, my eyes were drawn to one particular claim that she makes: &quot;By their very definition, patents reduce the sharing of new ideas.&quot; 
Of course, there are a million and one arguments against such nonsense, but the best I have come across recently was made by Christopher Marki of Marki Microwaves, a Califonia-based SMB (small...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Allen v the internet: a lot of noise, not too much heat</title>
      <description><![CDATA[I am not sure if anyone has noticed, but Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, has&nbsp;initiated legal proceedings&nbsp;against what seems to be almost&nbsp;every big player in the&nbsp;internet search and e-commerce world (though not Microsoft and, more surprising perhaps, Amazon).&nbsp;It is claimed that the companies named&nbsp;infringe on four patents&nbsp;held by Interval Licensing, a company owned by Allen which was set up to monetise the R&amp;D work done by Interval Research, which he also set up and which ceased to operate in 2000. In a press release issued by Interval the patents are said &quot;to cover fundamental web technologies first developed at Interval...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Former Fujitsu IP head becomes first member of IV executive board based outside the US</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Masanobu Katoh has been&nbsp;appointed Intellectual Ventures' country head&nbsp;for&nbsp;Japan. He&nbsp;joins the firm after a 30 year career at&nbsp;Fujitsu where, among other things, he was head of the law and IP unit. In addition Katoh&nbsp;is to serve as&nbsp;an executive vice-president of IV corporate. This makes him a senior executive in&nbsp;the firm's&nbsp;overall global management and so part of the team responsible for planning and implementing IV's&nbsp;future trajectory. I understand it is the first time that someone who&nbsp;is not based&nbsp;in IV's Bellevue&nbsp;or Silicon Valley offices has been appointed to such a senior leadership position at the firm.
Back in Asia, Jim Kelly will continue to serve...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Acacia turns privateer as businesses decide if you can't beat them join them</title>
      <description><![CDATA[I got an email from regular IAM blog correspondent Terry Ludlow, the&nbsp;founder and CEO&nbsp;of Chipworks. He wrote in response to two pieces of recent news from Acacia. The first was an announcement that the firm has secured institutional backing to establish a fund that is authorised to raise up to $250 million for the purposes of buying, licensing and enforcing IP &quot;consisting primarily of patents, patent rights, and patented technologies&quot;. The second that this self same fund has entered into an agreement with Japanese company Renesas Electronics Corporation, the world's leading supplier of microcontrollers. Terry writes: 
... I think there is...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>German patent funds are still up and running - REVISED</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Although IP Bewertung (IPB) has filed for bankruptcy, I understand that the patent funds it managed on behalf of Deutsche Bank are still operating and are now under the control of a Munich-based boutique called Clou Partners. This has been around for 10 years and specialises in intangibles. I am told that it was Clou that first came up with the idea for the funds and it received close to 3% of the &euro;200 million that they raised. It is now Clou's job to turn that investment into profit - something that IPB clearly found very tricky. 
With regard to IPB...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>World's first patent exchange inches towards launch; listees to be named next month</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Last week I spoke with Gerard Pannekoek, the CEO of IP Exchange International, or IPXI. He told me how moves towards getting the exchange off the ground and open for trading are progressing. If he is right, it looks like we could, at last, be getting close to take-off. The hope is that the first tranche of IP owners that have agreed to list on the exchange will be announced in September. That said, IPXI has been a slow burner: deadlines - for what they are worth - have been missed in the past. 
The last time I touched base with...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>ECJ Advocate General says no to a single EU patent litigation system - UPDATED </title>
      <description><![CDATA[In a non-binding opinion, the Advocate General of the Europan Court of Justice has ruled that &quot;as it stands&quot; the current proposals for a unified patent litigation system in&nbsp;Europe&nbsp;are &quot;incompatible&quot; with&nbsp;EU treaties. &nbsp;The opinion was actually issued at the beginning of July - but in French only. You can read it on the EP Law Patent Blog. The opinion&nbsp;was issued after&nbsp;an ECJ hearing that took place in May. This followed a referral from EU member states&nbsp;that asked: &quot;Is the envisaged agreement creating a unified patent litigation system (currently named &lsquo;European and Community Patents Court&rsquo;) compatible with the provisions of the Treaty...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Pioneering German patent fund business files for bankruptcy</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The IP Finance blog is reporting that Hamburg-based IP Bewertung filed for bankruptcy last month. Although I have not seen any other report&nbsp;about this, the story was filed by Rob Harrison - who is based in Germany and knows the market there&nbsp;very well.
Among other things, IPB ran three so-called patent funds on behalf of Deutsche Bank and Rob says in his IP Finance piece that it is not clear as yet what has happened to these. In an IAM blog written in 2008, I summarised a conversation I had with Guido von Scheffer, a director of the firm, in which he...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Good news for the UK's IP law service providers and perhaps for others too</title>
      <description><![CDATA[After the storm comes the bright blue sky. Following a few very tricky doom-laden years in which the global downturn has exacted a heavy toll on many in the IP legal profession, things could be changing - in the UK at least. That is, if Peter Fellows, managing director of the specialist private practice IP recruitment agency Fellows and Associates, is to be believed. 
In an online piece written by Fellows, which I came across today, he states that &quot;things are getting better&quot;. He goes on to explain: 
If the amount of work that a recruitment company has could be considered...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>USPTO gets extra funds as Tessera CEO shows what top class PR can achieve</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Catching up on everything that has happened over the last three weeks it looks like the big story was the US Congress's decision to allow the USPTO to spend an extra $129 million of the money it will raise during this financial year. President Obama signed the legislation into law on 10th August. The vote came after the president had taken the very unusual step of writing to the speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, urging her to back moves for extra USPTO funding as a means to &quot;support efforts to reduce backlogs in processing patent applications -- by...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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