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      <title>BLOG: Brand values bounced back in 2009; Wal-mart still number 1; Google climbs to second</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Brand Finance has produced its ranking of the world's 500 most valuable brands. In the press release announcing the main findings for 2009, the company observes that values have rebounded considerably since 2008, when they fell steeply,&nbsp;and are now worth a combined&nbsp;$2,873 billion. Other highlights it mentions are:
Retail giant Walmart, whose brand value increased 2% this year, retains top spot in the annual survey ... Google, which has risen in the table from number five to number two, shares top ten status with other technology brands including IBM (4), Microsoft (5) and hp (9). GE, HSBC, Vodafone and Toyota complete the...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: Big tech and &quot;buying clubs&quot; will help Acacia continue to grow, says CEO</title>
      <description><![CDATA[If you bought stock in&nbsp;the very litigious non-practising entity&nbsp;Acacia Technologies in November 2008, you have had a very lucrative 15 months. Back then, the company's market capitalisation stood at $90 million, after steep falls at the back end of 2007. By October 2009 it had climbed to $250 million.&nbsp;As of today, the figure stands at over $280 million. That's a 200% plus increase.&nbsp;
Yesterday Acacia announced its&nbsp;fourth&nbsp;quarter and year end financials for 2009. Annual revenues were up&nbsp;40% to over $67 million&nbsp;and, according to chairman and CEO Paul Ryan, there is every prospect of further increases during 2010. &quot;Acacia's success in completing over...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: In praise of Intellectual Ventures</title>
      <description><![CDATA[I was only thinking the other day that it has been quite quiet on the Intellectual Ventures front recently when what pops up in The New York Times, but a long piece on the firm and its co-founder Nathan Myhrvold. That said ,there is not much which is very new in it; instead it is a reprisal of the usual stuff that is always written about IV.  
So, we have Myhrvold stating that patents should be a distinct asset class, that there needs to be much more transparency in the market place and that big technology companies are a &quot;cozy...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>REPORT: The probably invalid patent: is clearing the way a necessary strategy?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Occasionally a question arises regarding the proposed exploitation of a patent that is considered to be invalid. However, there is also a further question as to whether Australian law imposes a legal duty for the "infringer" to take action to revoke the patent(s) blocking its strategy. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>r.baddeley@watermark.com.au (Watermark)</author>
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      <title>REPORT: Import of products from another EU country insufficient to exhaust trademark rights</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Tribunal of Turin has held that the import of products from another EU member state is not sufficient to exhaust trademark rights. It found that Young Importers had unlawfully sold decoded products without knowing the exact origin of those products, thus committing trademark infringement as it could not prove that the rights were exhausted. 

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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>blatella@jacobacci-law.com (Jacobacci &amp; Partners)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: Why VCs and start-ups should love IP</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In the latest issue of IAM we run a fascinating article by Joseph Hadzima, Bruce Bockmann and Alexander Butler of IP Vision in Boston. They describe a project they undertook with investors, corporate executives and members of the faculty at MIT Sloan School of Management to assess over 9,000 US venture capital backed technology companies&rsquo; intellectual property positions. They did this by developing a ratings systems that was applied to reach one of the companies which mapped the following:  
&bull; Does the company have intellectual property and, if so, how strong is it? For companies and sectors where intellectual property...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: Licensing salaries soar as recession puts premium on monetisation expertise</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Compensation packages for licensing professionals in the US and Canada rocketed between 2007 and 2009, according to&nbsp;surveys conducted among corporate and university members of the Licensing Executives Society in the two countries.  
In 2007, the median base salary of those responding to the LES questionnaire was US$127,500, while the overall median - including bonus payments - was US$157,500. By 2009, those two figures had risen to US$157,500 and US$172,000 respectively. That's a 20% plus jump for the base number and just under a 10% climb for the overall one.&nbsp;  
The salary rises have taken place across the board. In...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: The greatest patent sale ever may be on the cards</title>
      <description><![CDATA[It looks like we are approaching the end game&nbsp;in the great Nortel sell-off. The latest news from Canada is that the insolvent telecoms company could be about to put its patents up for sale. Although there is no confirmation of this as yet, the 4,000 strong portfolio would undoubtedly attract a lot of interest - not least from those companies who have already acquired parts of the Nortel business.
It has been estimated that the patents&nbsp;may&nbsp;be worth around&nbsp;$1 billion. Of course, one of the tricks will be to decide the most feasible way of maximising&nbsp;this monetary value. Would it be through&nbsp;selling the...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: Apple is the number one target for NPEs in the US</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Apple has been on the end of more suits from non-practising entities (NPEs) since 2004 than any other company, according to statistics on the website of PatentFreedom. Up to the end of 2009, Apple had been involved in 56 lawsuits, that's one more than Sony. In third place is Dell (50), followed by Microsoft (49) and HP&nbsp;and Samsung (both 48). Last year alone, Apple had to contend with 21 suits from NPEs.
All the companies that feature in PatentFreedom's list of top 25 most targeted have been involved in an average of at least four NPE-related suits a year since 2004. And,...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: US and German PCT applications fall sharply as China soars</title>
      <description><![CDATA[PCT applications from many of the world's most advanced industrial nations plummeted&nbsp;in 2009, according to data released by WIPO today. The Geneva-based UN agency, reports that&nbsp;both the US (-11.4%)&nbsp;and Germany (-11.2%) saw falls of over 10%, as did Canada (-11.7%), Sweden (-11.3%)&nbsp;and Israel (-17.2%). There were also less steep declines in filings from&nbsp;the UK, Switzerland,&nbsp;Italy, Finland and Australia. Overall, the number of international filings dropped by 4.5% last year - the first fall since 1978, according to the Associated Press.
However, the story is not just one of decline. Both France and the Netherlands saw applicaitons rise; while the news from Asia...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: Industry Focus: Information Technology</title>
      <description><![CDATA[This issue's featured industry data includes key patent metrics for companies in the Information Technology Industries.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>(Ocean Tomo PatentRatings)</author>
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      <title>ARTICLE: IP litigation strategy and the art of war - the in-house perspective</title>
      <description><![CDATA[There is more to winning a complex
multi-jurisdictional IP litigation than
just having a good case.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: Brand and reputation in China following the financial crisis</title>
      <description><![CDATA[China’s economy may be forced to
change over the coming years as
the export market becomes more
challenging. This could present
both foreign and domestic
companies with new opportunities.
To seize them, they must
understand their brands.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <guid>http://www.iam-magazine.com/ctredir.ashx?g=eb292ffe-17e3-4ca2-891e-e1276a712520</guid>
      <author>(Jonathan Low and Vincent Leung)</author>
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      <title>ARTICLE: EPC changes on the horizon</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Understanding and adjusting to the
new rules covering divisional
applications is critical – as is the need
to track the new deadlines, writes
Andrew Schimmoeller, a legal
researcher for Thomson IP Management
Services at Thomson Reuters.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: The best of the blogThe UK stakes a claim to global IP thought leadership</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The IAM blog is updated four
or five times a week and
currently has a regular
readership of around 9,000
unique users, who visit the
site an average of three times
a month. In this series, some
of the blog’s most popular
posts are reproduced in the
Insight section of IAM
magazine, along with the
responses that they
generated.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: IP in early-stage commercial and investment success</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Detailed analysis shows that a high
percentage of the most successful
early-stage VC-backed businesses
in the United States have a strong
IP sense.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <guid>http://www.iam-magazine.com/ctredir.ashx?g=fdeb4f10-97d1-4df8-96b2-90a9f9547900</guid>
      <author>(Joseph Hadzima, Bruce Bockmann and Alexander Butler)</author>
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      <title>ARTICLE: Your 2010 performance review</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Now is the time to be deciding
which IAM strategies to select
whose outcomes will track to your
corporate objectives and timelines
in 2010 and beyond.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: Bilski: the life sciences angle</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Bilski case will be closely watched
to see whether the Supreme Court
will use it to address determination of
patent eligibility well beyond business
methods.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: Ten reasons to consider a standalone IP business unit</title>
      <description><![CDATA[An IP portfolio is a diamond in the
rough. In the hands of the right
craftsman, it can be polished to
reveal its full value. The trick is
finding these individuals and giving
them the best chance of doing
their job well.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: New report reveals IV's Ocean Tomo auction buying spree</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Avancept LLP has published a new report entitled Publicly Auctioned Patent Buyers: Intellectual Ventures &amp; Others. This seeks to identify the organisations that bought patents at te publicly-held Open Tomo auctions that took place between 2006 and 2009, up to - and I think - including the last one that occurred before the OT auction business was sold to ICAP. It covers the 300 lots that were sold at the groundbreaking events which, on occasions, generated a great deal of money. It has always been widely rumoured, though never confirmed, that IV was the principal buyer at the sales; this report...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>REPORT: Trademarks and brands: maximising the value of trademark practitioners and marketers</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A trademark is what the business says it is, while a brand is what the consumer sees it as. What differentiates successful businesses from their competitors is the ability to market a brand effectively by integrating and implementing the perspectives of both trademark practitioners and marketers. 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>s.mcguire@watermark.com.au (Watermark)</author>
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      <title>REPORT: Board rules on confusingly similar device marks based on copyright protection</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market Board of Appeal has upheld a claim by Gucci regarding its G logos and has revoked a Community trademark registration for the device mark G GLITZY. This case is significant because the board recognised the existence of an earlier right according to the national law of only one EU member state.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>ecarrillo@jacobacci.com (Jacobacci &amp; Partners)</author>
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      <title>EVENT: IRF Strategic Seminar</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The IRF Strategic Seminar (1 June 2010, Vienna, Austria) is aimed at executives responsible for business and valuation aspects of Intellectual Property within their organization. It will focus on IP as a key to business growth and value creation. Both policy issues and technological decision-making breakthroughs will be explored thanks to an exceptional panel of successful executives and experienced specialists. The day will offer concrete cost-effective IP optimizations from acknowledged experts on the best way of managing IP and the performance of an R&D department. The Strategic Seminar is collocated with the 3rd IRF Symposium, the international forum for experts from...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>(IRF Strategic Seminar)</author>
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      <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)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: 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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      <title>ARTICLE: Setting the intangible agenda for the next decade</title>
      <description><![CDATA[For those interested in the
financing of IP and other
intangibles, the next decade
looks to be full of promise.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: Why Zale must learn a quality lesson</title>
      <description><![CDATA[US jewellery company Zale
Corporation has overlooked its
primary intangible asset. Sales
and market capitalisation have
fallen as a result. But all is not lost.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: The intangible investorWhat goes around comes around</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Half-baked press coverage of IP
activities devalues patents and
impedes innovation. Blame both
reporters and patent holders for not
knowing the facts.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: Counting on quality</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Private practice attorneys provide
significant value-added to their clients
by helping them to secure quality
patents. An exclusive IAM/Ocean
Tomo collaboration reveals which
US law firms are doing just that.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: CIPO forumIn-the-box innovation: lessons from childhood</title>
      <description><![CDATA[For all the talk of out-of-the-box
innovation, perhaps there are also
some lessons to be learned from inside
the box.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: 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...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: 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)</author>
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      <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)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: 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...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>REPORT: Application for judicial review dismissed as abuse of process</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In Maple Leaf Foods Inc v Consorzio Del Prosciutto Di Parma the Federal Court of Canada dismissed Maple Leaf Foods Inc's application for judicial review of a notice for the adoption and use of the trademark PARMA (and ducal crown design) as an official mark in Canada. The court concluded that the application was an abuse of process. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jmacneil@langmichener.ca (Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[In order to address concerns raised by trademark owners regarding the problem of "shadow companies" in Hong Kong, the new Companies (Amendment) Bill 2010 considers, among other things, certain changes to the company name registration system with a view to enhancing enforcement against possible abuses by shadow companies. 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>yvonnechua@wilgrist.com (Wilkinson &amp; Grist)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: 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...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: Snow news is bad news at the USPTO</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The blizzards that have battered Washington DC over recent days have meant that the US Patent and Trademark Office has been closed since Monday and will be again today.&nbsp; On one of my infrequent forays into the world of Tweeting I&nbsp;saw that Erin-Michael Gill is pointing out that should the office be forced to shut again tomorrow, that will mean the loss of 2% of annual examination hours. When you are trying to eat into a backlog&nbsp;of applications that is forecast to stand at&nbsp;over 700,000 by the end of this financial year,&nbsp;losing even four days&nbsp;is a big problem - after all,...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>REPORT: Trademark rights trump title of goods, says court</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has confirmed that trademark rights trump title of goods in Canada. This was the message delivered to an applicant which sought a declaratory order stating that the respondent’s trademark rights would not be infringed by the applicant’s importation into Canada of goods bearing the COTTON GINNY marks. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jpowell@fasken.com (Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP)</author>
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      <title>REPORT: MISS COOL accepted for registration</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The trademarks registrar has accepted an application to register the trademark MISS COOL in Cyprus. The registrar had previously filed a provisional refusal against the trademark application, but revoked this refusal following a hearing.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>phivi@kyprianou.com.cy (Michael Kyprianou &amp; Co LLC)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[On 1st April 2010 new Implementing Regulations to the European Patent Convention will enter into force. The regulations will have a major impact on the hitherto generous provisions regarding the filing of divisional applications in the European Patent Office patent prosecution process. 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.iam-magazine.com/ctredir.ashx?g=71168fef-4f23-4e3f-bbd6-83049a348c2f</link>
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      <author>bu@cohausz-florack.de (COHAUSZ &amp; FLORACK)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: 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...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: 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>
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      <title>BLOG: 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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      <title>BLOG: Patent reform back on the legislative agenda in the US, maybe</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy, the chair of the US Senate's Judiciary Committee, has reported that progress has been made on proposed legislation to reform the patent system in the US. Speaking on Thursday, Leahy stated: &quot;We have reached a tentative agreement in principle that preserves the core of the compromise struck in Committee last year with the help of Senators Feinstein, Specter, Cornyn, Klobuchar and others. We will, of course, continue discussing the details with all Members of this Committee going forward, as well as with our counterparts in the House as we finalize a consensus bill.&quot; The compromise he is referring to...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: Flawed property index names best and worst countries for IP protection</title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's that time of year when the annual International Property Rights Index is released. It covers 125 countries, accounting for 97% of the world's GDP. According to the website on which it is published, the aim of the index is to provide: &quot;An international comparative study that measures the significance of both physical and intellectual property rights and their protection for economic well-being.&quot; Essentially, the index ranks countries by the protection they afford to different types of property right, including IP.
This year, the results are pretty much the same as last year. In the top 10, you get: Denmark; Finland; the...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>REPORT: Registrar finally approves registration of AIRKRAFT</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Following a provisional refusal and two hearings, the trademark registrar has finally approved registration of the trademark AIRKRAFT in Class 12 of the Nice Classification. The provisional refusal had been based on an ex officio examination and on absolute grounds for refusal. 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>REPORT: Registrar finds TOMBOY mark descriptive and indistinctive </title>
      <description><![CDATA[The registrar of trademarks recently refused an application to register the word mark TOMBOY in respect of clothing, footwear and headgear in Class 25 of the Nice Classification on the grounds that the mark consists exclusively of a sign which designates the characteristics of the goods applied for and is devoid of distinctive character. 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>REPORT: Motion for summary judgment denied on issue of fraud intent</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In DaimlerChrysler Corp v American Motors Corp the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board followed the recent decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in In re Bose Corp and denied DaimlerChrysler's motion for summary judgment on the question of whether American Motors Corp had attained registration of its trademark by way of fraud on the USPTO.]]></description>
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      <title>BLOG: ICAP IP chief reveals plans to be dominant player in the transactions market</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In just over a month's time ICAP/Ocean Tomo will be holding&nbsp;its spring auction in San Francisco. You'll remember that ICAP bought Ocean Tomo's transactions business in June last year and since then has held one very disappointing public sale and abandoned another one. On the face of it, therefore, it would seem that this time around a few points need to be proved if these events are going to have a serious future.  
Earlier today, though, I spoke with Dean Becker - who came across to ICAP as part of the Ocean Tomo purchase and now heads the company's entire...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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