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• Look behind the headlines and China's patent miracle is a lot easier to explain

  After four very illuminating days in Shanghai attending the China IP Business Summit, I have learned at least one very important lesson about reporting what is going on here. And that is: it pays dividends to…

• A CIPO speaks ...

  IAM 39 goes to press on Monday and will be sent out to subscribers (and available online as well) at the start of the following week. One of the highlights of the next issue is a…

• The USPTO's transparency puts Europe to shame

  The news that USPTO Director David Kappos has launched a blog in which he will speak directly to all the office's users and everyone else who has an interest in its functioning is not a…

• China emerges as a world leader in IP finance

  It looks like IP-backed loans in China, which this blog reported on last year here and here, are being rolled out across the country. Although loans secured against IP rights have been made available by a…

• More on IPCom and its litigation with HTC in Germany

  Robert Harrison of the 24IP Group has just posted a comment to the blog I posted last month on a recent development in the efforts of IPCom, a German an NPE, to monetise a patent portfolio…

• Note to TechDirt - Google is completely dependent on IP

  I came across this headline as I was perusing the latest IP-related stories today: Google Doesn't Rely On Intellectual Property For Its Leadership Position It sits atop an article written by Mike Masnick for TechDirt.…

• HP faces 3Com patent dilemma when acquisition goes through

  The overnight news that HP is to purchase 3Com for $2.7 billion adds an extra frisson to the US Ethernet Innovations litigation story we reported on earlier this week. As you will recall, USEI bought…

• EPO presidency vote - the plot thickens as Swiss candidate claims to be in pole position

  Well, it seems that the EPO presidency vote that we reported last week on this blog may actually have been only the first part of what occured in Munich during the Administrative Council meeting at the end of…

• Supreme Court hears arguments in the Bilski case

  The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Bilski case this afternoon in Washington DC. There is extensive coverage of what happened on a number of the major US-based blogs, including PatentlyO, The 271…

• Skype founders successfully use IP to get their seat on the board

  It looks like eBay's Skype woes - which this blog has covered here, here and here - could be about to come to an end. If the settlement announced last Friday holds and the on-line…