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      <title>It is time for a holiday I think ...</title>
      <description><![CDATA[My old stamping ground of Catalonia &ndash; where I spent five very happy years in the late 1980s and early 1990s &ndash; is calling. Yes, it&rsquo;s holiday time and the IAM blog is taking its annual summer break as I head south with my family to a place near Girona for what we all hope will be three weeks or so of intense relaxation (if that is possible). Here&rsquo;s wishing all our readers a great summer (or winter for those in the southern hemisphere). In one year, this blog has seen its band of regular users double and the number of...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Senior EPO official warns of tougher patentabiliy standards and higher fees</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The latest issue of IAM has now gone to press and will be published at the end of this week. There are a number of highlights, but for the cover story this time around I have gone for a piece written by Ci&aacute;ran McGinley -&nbsp;the Controller of the EPO and so one of the office&rsquo;s most senior staff members -&nbsp;on the subject of &ldquo;global patent warming&rdquo;. 
In the article, Ci&aacute;ran goes into some detail about what the phrase means and what is causing it. &ldquo;Incoming volumes are increasing per patent office due to globalisation driven by patent propensity and trade,&rdquo; he...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>UK film and music industries reap lobbying rewards</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Are the various copyright industries in Europe the most effective IP groups when it comes to lobbying for its interests? The answer surely has to be yes. Last week, the European Commission announced plans to extend protection on sound recordings to 95 years, now the British government is proclaiming a groundbreaking deal between broadband providers and Britain&rsquo;s music and film industries. 
In a three month trial, the six largest internet service providers (ISPs) &ndash; who make up 90% of the UK market &ndash; will send weekly letters to 1,000 prolific illegal downloaders in an attempt to combat net piracy. 
The agreement...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>sadams@iam-magazine.com (Sara Jayne Adams, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>More on the US patent quality debate</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The IPBiz blog has been taking a close look at the Ocean Tomo article on US patent quality that I wrote about last week. While not necessarily disagreeing with the authors&rsquo; central thesis &ndash; that patent quality has gone up at the USPTO over the last five years and not down as the office&rsquo;s critics suggest &ndash; IPBiz has identified what it believes to be a few problems with the article that may, in its words, &ldquo;distort the true picture&rdquo;. As far as I have seen, there have not been any other criticisms of the Malackowski and Barney piece yet; although...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>There must be money to be made in these wild share price moves</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Just to show that share prices do not only go south as the result of patent litigation, Qualcomm&rsquo;s surged close to 20% in after the bell&nbsp;trading yesterday following the announcement of an agreement that brings to an end the long-running litigation that the company has had with Nokia. And shares in the Finnish company were also up, despite having closed the official trading day down. The deal came on the same day that the San Diego-based company announced third quarter figures that showed a 6% drop in net income, although revenues were up 19%. 
Qualcomm is the latest in a string...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>European Commission's copyright extension plans are savaged</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Last week the European Commission announced proposals to extend the rights of performers to copyright protection on sound recordings from the current 50 years to 95 years. It was spectacular victory for the music industry, which had been lobbying hard for the change for many years. 
Now, however, the backlash to the Commission&rsquo;s proposals has begun. First of all, the UK Intellectual Property Office issued a press release stating its opposition. Now a group of leading European IP academics have written a letter to The Times expressing their disapproval. Among the signatories are figures from such august institutions as the Max...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>AdWords lives to fight another day as key US case is settled</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The controversial issue of keywords and Google&rsquo;s AdWords programme in the United States will remain a great imponderable for trademark practitioners following the search engine company&rsquo;s settlement of a case with American Airlines. The airline had instituted proceedings against Google, claiming that AdWords caused customer confusion which &ldquo;has cost and unless enjoined will continue to cost American Airlines millions of dollars&rdquo;. 
Although Google has been subjected to action before, all these cases have settled. There was hope in US trademark circles that this time it would be different, as American Airlines is a long-established brand and had stated that it was...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>Welcome to Brand IP</title>
      <description><![CDATA[People working in the IP community would, I think, concede that right now IP has a problem. And it is this. Despite all it has done for the advancement of mankind - culturally, socially, technologically, economically and in health terms &ndash; most people outside the IP bubble are almost completely ignorant of what IP is all about. Those who have heard of it tend to be negative to a greater or lesser degree. 
In boardrooms IP is usually seen as an expensive, defensive right that makes lawyers rich and companies poorer than they should be. In politics and policy making, IP...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>More mixed messages from the European Commission</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Internal Market DG at the European Commission yesterday issued an official communication entitled &ldquo;An Industrial Property Rights Strategy for Europe&rdquo;. It is a wide-ranging&nbsp;document that sets out what the DG says are the Commission&rsquo;s priorities in a number of IP-related areas. In the press release accompanying the communication, Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy states: &quot;This strategy will offer a springboard for European companies to compete in the global economy. Not only will it help inventors across Europe to protect their ideas with strong industrial property rights, but it will also provide a catalyst for cutting-edge inventions from companies of all...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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      <title>The WSJ may be spouting patent nonsense, but ask yourself why</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Patent Prospector blog is typically forthright in its condemnation of a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece entitled &ldquo;Patent Gridlock Suppresses Innovation&rdquo;. And while many of us may find the way in which PP expresses itself regretable, it is still possible to have sympathy with the frustration that underlies what the blog&rsquo;s authors are saying. 
For what it&rsquo;s worth, here are my observations on that WSJ piece: 
&bull; It seems to me that the author completely misses the point of AST. Who does he think that it will buy patents from if it is not the innovators that secured them...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild, IAM Magazine)</author>
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