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      <title>BLOG: 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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      <title>REPORT: Balancing legal protection in India </title>
      <description><![CDATA[An understanding of the relationship between trademark and design law is essential to protecting trade dress in India. The judiciary has long recognised trade dress and the get-up of goods, and has traditionally provided protection from unauthorised appropriation under the tort action of passing off.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>hbagai@luthra.com (Luthra &amp; Luthra Law Offices)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: The top 10 IAM blog stories from July</title>
      <description><![CDATA[After a couple of weeks dodging rain showers in the beautiful South West of England, I am back and the IAM blog is ready to roll into motion once more. To get things started, here are the top 10 blog stories for July:  
30-Jul-10 Those innovation funds &quot;having trouble&quot; - IV responds UPDATED  
22-Jul-10IAM Exclusive - David Kappos writes on the Patent Prosecution Highway  
25-Jul-10 The copyright troll is born  
26-Jul-10 Another deal that puts IV on the side of the angels - UPDATED  
23-Jul-10 IP value creation at IBM and Microsoft - compare and contrast...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>REPORT: The Australian innovation patent: the &quot;perfect storm&quot; loses a little wind? </title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Australian innovation patent has a number of real advantages when considering a holistic view of protection for an invention. In practice, these have led to innovation patents being extremely difficult to invalidate. However, a recent decision provides a reminder that there are limitations as to how robust an innovation patent can be considered to be. 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>i.lindsay@watermark.com.au (Watermark)</author>
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      <title>EVENT: CIPA’s Annual Congress</title>
      <description><![CDATA[CIPA’s Annual Congress, this year on 30 September and 1 October in London, takes a fresh look at IP policy, strategy, tactics and operations covering portfolio management, development of the patent system in Europe, discovery, IP business management, IP in China, IP in India, AdWords™, Domain name issues and trade marks and designs case law. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>REPORT: Copyright issues surrounding press clippings</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Law 23/2006 introduced into the Copyright Act the complex regulation of press clipping activities. The new regulation has led to certain lawsuits pending before the courts. The main interpretive problem raised with the regulation is the identity of “the author” to whom the rule refers is: should it be the journalist who wrote the article or the company that owns the newspaper?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jjmarin@gomezacebo-pombo.com (G&#243;mez-Acebo &amp; Pombo Abogados)</author>
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      <title>REPORT: Protecting trade dress</title>
      <description><![CDATA[IP law allows the protection of products through distinctive signs such as trademarks, trade names, slogans and appellations of origin. However, while these four options may seem adequate to ensure protection, IP law still provides no protection for trade dress. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>mfn@olivares.com.mx (Olivares &amp; Cia)</author>
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      <title>REPORT: New criminal offence regarding certain types of printed work</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Further provisions of the Copyright (Amendment) Ordinance 2007 recently came into force. They lay down a new business end-user criminal offence of regularly distributing or making with a view to distributing infringing copies of printed books, newspapers, magazines and periodicals which results in financial loss for the relevant copyright owners. 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>florencelam@wilgrist.com (Wilkinson &amp; Grist)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: Seasonal break - it's holiday time</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The IAM blog will be taking a two week break as from today, 2nd August. We'll be back on or around 16th August. See you then.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: Those innovation funds &quot;having trouble&quot; - IV responds UPDATED</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Earlier today I asked Intellectual Ventures whether they had any comment regarding the stories that have been circulating concerning the performance of a couple of funds they established and now run. As you'll remember,&nbsp;the University of Texas Management Company, which has invested in both the&nbsp;Invention Development Fund I and Invention Investment Fund II, has just&nbsp;reported significant negative returns on the two. Some concluded this must mean that they are &quot;having trouble&quot;. Well, according to&nbsp;Larry Froeber, VP Finance, at IV that's not the case. In a comment he has sent through to me this evening, he states:
&ldquo;The method UTIMCO has chosen to...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: Interviews with top CIPOs available to view</title>
      <description><![CDATA[During the IP Business Congress in Munich last month we conducted a number of video interviews with speakers and delegates which are now available to view. The interviewees discuss their experiences of holding the Chief IP Officer role, or equivalent, and offer their advice to aspiring CIPOs looking to convince their boards of directors to sit up and take notice of the potential value of their intellectual property. The videos can be found on the new CIPO section of the IAM website - a unique portal designed for and about the people responsible for the creation, management and exploitation of corporate...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>sclover@iam-magazine.com (Sara-Jayne Clover)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: IV funds &quot;are having trouble&quot;, according to reports </title>
      <description><![CDATA[A Twitter from a bloke called Chris Dixon and a subsequent comment piece published by TechCrunch are causing a stir right now. Both relate to a report published by the University of Texas Management Company which details&nbsp;its private investments in venture and private equity funds,&nbsp;and&nbsp;their internal rates of return. Two funds detailed are created and managed by Intellectual Ventures:&nbsp;Invention Development Fund I and Invention Investment Fund II. They have shown a combined negative return of over 70% (see page seven of this). What Dixon concludes is that this shows &quot;patent trolling might not pay&quot;, while the TechCrunch piece states: &quot;This glimpse...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>ARTICLE: The intangibles decade: looking forward to 2020</title>
      <description><![CDATA[We are entering the intangibles
decade. At a meeting held earlier
this year, experts from a range
of disciplines predicted what this
will mean.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: Measures of success, Part II</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Understanding patents starts with a
business’s ability to identify needs,
establish expectations and measure
performance. It’s easier said than done,
say three experts.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>REPORT: Be wary of paid advertisements: keyword advertising in Canada </title>
      <description><![CDATA[The use of competitors’ names in keyword advertising is an emerging area of the law of trademarks and passing off, but has not received judicial consideration in Canada until now. The British Columbia Supreme Court recently considered the issue of confusion as it has been developed in trademark jurisprudence when deciding whether the use of such keywords constituted misleading advertising.
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>mfancourtsmith@fasken.com (Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP)</author>
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      <title>ARTICLE: Barack Obama’s powerful IP lesson for Europe</title>
      <description><![CDATA[On 12th July, US President Barack
Obama wrote to Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker of the House of
Representatives, requesting that
she spearhead efforts to ensure
additional funding for the US
Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO).]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: The licensing take-off at EADS</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Four years ago, Europe’s top
aerospace company decided it
should be making a lot more of its
IP portfolio. Now it is beginning to
roll out a sophisticated licensing
programme. In this article, some of
those involved in developing it
explain how it was done.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: Bilski and the case for IP audits</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court’s recent
decision in the Bilski case should
encourage US patent owners to
undertake a systematic audit of their
portfolios. Failure to do so could end
up being an expensive mistake.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: The CIPO toolkit</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Intellectual property is an asset that
can create real value for the
businesses that own it. But
convincing a board of directors that
this is so is not always easy. Chief
IP officers from a variety of
companies explain how they did it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.iam-magazine.com/ctredir.ashx?g=fcd05553-a06b-475b-b94a-b810406d22bc</link>
      <guid>http://www.iam-magazine.com/ctredir.ashx?g=fcd05553-a06b-475b-b94a-b810406d22bc</guid>
      <author>(Sara-Jayne Clover)</author>
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      <title>ARTICLE: Navigating the software and business method maze</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Recent decisions in the US and
Europe concerning the patentability
of software and business methods
may have provided greater clarity,
but they have not brought further
harmony. This has significant
implications for portfolio
management strategies.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: Understanding the market for advanced IP management systems</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The purchase of IP management
system software is a significant
investment. So how do you decide
exactly what you need and who is
best placed to meet your
requirements?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: Hooking the corporation on the value of intellectual assets</title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's a three-step process to
persuade a company that it can
prosper and grow through investing
in intellectual asset management.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: Inside China</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A special roundtable on recent
developments affecting IP owners
in China]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>(Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>ARTICLE: Dateline Munich</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A world class speaking faculty of IP thought leaders
debated with delegates from around the word at the
third IP Business Congress, held this year in Munich.
Creating value from IP and other intangible assets was
the theme of the event, and what is abundantly clear is
just how many possibilities there now are to do this for
those willing to think creatively about what they own.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: The evolution of business method patenting</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Bernard L Bilski is certain to be a name
that will long be remembered in patent
history.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: BP needs authentic IP</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Although BP was aware of the
importance of its corporate
reputation, the company's internal
processes have not helped it to
weather the political and regulatory
storm unleashed by the Deepwater
Horizon disaster.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: The case for copyright</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Strategic thinking on the creation of
IP value tends to focus on patents.
However, those who open their eyes
will find enormous potential, as well
as major challenges, in what
copyright has to offer.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: Tapping into CIPO expertise</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The CIPO Manifesto Working Group
held its second meeting at the IP
Business Congress in Munich. Its
focus was on identifying best
practices in IP value creation.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>(Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>ARTICLE: Intent or no intent – that is the question</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The recent ruling in the Solo Cup case
provides some insight into what US
patent owners can do to protect
themselves from false marking claims.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: When hypocrisy is the least of it</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A December 2009 deal that
Micron Technology did with an
NPE exposes issues that go to
the very heart of corporate IP
management.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARTICLE: Industry Focus: Health Care</title>
      <description><![CDATA[This issue features key patent metrics for companies in the Health Care sector.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: What Marshall did next ...</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Victor Kiam was famously&nbsp;the man who loved the Remington electric razor so much he bought the company. Clearly, Marshall Phelps knows how he felt. The ex-head of IP strategy and policy at Microsoft, who now sits on the board of Article One Partners, likes his new company so much he is &quot;a key investor&quot; in a new $5 million round of institutional funding announced today.  
The Article One proposition is that it can call up a worldwide community of advisers to assess the strength of a particular patent and to see whether there is any material out there that may...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: International IP Strategists Association moves closer to launch</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The group seeking to set-up the International Intellectual Property Strategists' Association (INTIPSA) held another meeting yesterday. I was not there, but it looks to have moved things on quite considerably. Jon Calvert, one of the group's members, sent me the following update:
Following the launch of Interested in INTIPSA on Linked-in and the early announcement in IAM of our intentions, we&rsquo;ve received interest from 100 people in the formation of INTIPSA (at the time of writing the first 98 have been profiled). Those registering an interest represent a broad spectrum of disciplines from in-house practitioners, service providers (consultants, legal and patent attorneys)...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: Another deal that puts IV on the side of the angels - UPDATED</title>
      <description><![CDATA[I got a joint press release today from Intellectual Ventures and a company called Vlingo. I am going to reproduce the main body of the text in full, because it's not a style of press releade that I have seen from IV before. This is the first one I have seen from the firm which actually makes public the fact that a company has become a licensee of and acquired patents from IV. This is what it says:
Vlingo Corporation Enters Into License Agreement and Patent Sale Agreement with Intellectual Ventures
CAMBRIDGE, MASS and BELLEVUE, WA. &mdash; July 26, 2010 &mdash; Vlingo Corporation...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: Identifying CIPO best practices</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Back in April, you'll remember that we ran a day-long on-line innovation game experiment focused on identifying best practice issues for chief IP officers. The idea was to get members of the global IP community to select key issues that they wanted to get feedback on from CIPOs. At the end of the process, four topics stood out:  
&bull; IP strategy in business. Best practices for working with senior management to improve their understanding of the strategic use of IP assets.  
&bull; Improving realisation of IP. How CIPOs demonstrate that well-managed IP programmes can increase corporate market value. ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: The copyright troll is born</title>
      <description><![CDATA[This is an interesting development that is already getting quite a bit of coverage in the US. Righthaven, a company based in Las Vegas, has been buying copyright material from the Las Vegas Review-Journal. And since March, it has initiated legal proceedings against 80 websites and bloggers, and is also said to have settled cases with a number of others. The target of Righthaven's actions have been sites which reproduce the Review-Journal's material without permission. &ldquo;Media companies&rsquo; assets are very much their copyrights. These companies need to understand and appreciate that those assets have value more than merely the present advertising...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: Man behind the Micron NPE deal has also done business with Intellectual Ventures</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Joe Mullin at Corporate Counsel reports that patents formerly owned by Intellectual Ventures are currently being litigated in an East Texas court. The plaintiff in the case is an NPE called Oasis Research LLC, which was established back in June by one John Desmarais. Yes, the very same Desmarais who set up Round Rock Research last year prior to acquiring over 20% of the entire patent portfolio owned by Micron Technologies.  
Last year this blog looked at IV's involvement with Ray Niro and concluded that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the firm doing whatever it wanted with its IP....]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: 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...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>REPORT: New Linkage Gazette omits formulation patents</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Mexican Trademark and Patent Office (IMPI) has made available the new edition of the Linkage Gazette. Regrettably, IMPI excluded formulation patents, disregarding the petition by the Pharmaceutical Association of R&D Companies and failing to follow Supreme Court jurisprudence.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>alf@olivares.com.mx (Olivares &amp; Cia)</author>
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      <title>REPORT: Living off fame: protecting a celebrity's name as a trademark in Canada</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In a globalised market it is essential to protect a celebrity's name properly in each jurisdiction. However, in Canada, protecting a celebrity's name can be a legal headache. This is why understanding the different types of protection available and using them in a timely manner is important. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jpmikus@mtl.fasken.com (Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: 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)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: 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)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: 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...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>jwild@iam-magazine.com (Joff Wild)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: 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...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>REPORT: A few problems with licences and how to avoid them</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In negotiating licence agreements and mediating, arbitrating or litigating disputes involving them, the same types of provision seem to cause a disproportionate amount of the trouble. This article identifies a few such provisions and presents some ideas for avoiding them.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>REPORT: When did your patent portfolio last have a health check?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Like all other assets, intellectual assets require proper care and maintenance. In the case of patents, there is more to this than just paying periodic renewal fees. Aside from managing the content of your patent portfolio to ensure that it has continuing relevance to your commercial strategy, you must also review your important patent assets to ensure that they remain valid and useful.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>m.summerfield@watermark.com.au (Watermark)</author>
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      <title>BLOG: 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...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BLOG: 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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      <title>BLOG: 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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      <title>BLOG: 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...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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