IAM Magazine - Blog
A blog about the business of IP; looking at developments around the world and how these impact on companies looking to use their IP rights to increase profits, drive shareholder value and obtain increased leverage in the capital markets.
Author: Joff Wild is the editor of IAM Magazine.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Legal News Publication
Recent Posts from IAM Magazine - Blog
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PPAC report criticises USPTO and calls for greater progress on quality and pendency
The US Patent Policy Advisory Committee has issued its 2008 report. While welcoming progress made by the USPTO in some areas, the committee members criticise the office for failing to implement fully a number of…
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Obama attorney-general pick good news for IP, says US Chamber of Commerce
Today Barack Obama nominated Eric Holder as the next attorney-general of the United States. Reacting to this, the deputy director of the US Chamber of Commerce's Global Intellectual Property Center, Mark Esper, praised the appointment.…
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Sir Hugh Laddie, 1946 - 2008
The UK has lost one of its finest IP minds following the untimely death of Sir Hugh Laddie after a long illness. Sir Hugh was a High Court judge for 10 years after previously enjoying…
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Europe's Competition DG slams big pharma and calls for the Community patent
In what must count as one of the least surprising pieces of news ever to have come out of Brussels, the European Commission’s Competition DG has announced that its preliminary findings in an on-going investigation…
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EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal turns down WARF stem cell application
The Enlarged Board of Appeals at the European Patent Office has refused an application from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) for a patent relating to human stem cells. In a press release issued today…
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AUTM scoops leading international IP award
The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) has become the fifth recipent of the Fifth City of Venice Award for Intellectual Property. At a ceremony in the Palazzo Ducale in St Mark's Squarelast night, AUTM…
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European ICT standards-setting is not the job of governments, says new group
On 20th November, a diverse group of stakeholders got together in Brussels to attend an open forum entitled Improving the Global Standards System: Addressing the Needs of ICT Stakeholders. This took place the day after…
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Jaw jaw has to be better than war war as US patent bar members are up in arms again
The naming of three new members of the Patent Policy Advisory Committee seems to have got a lot of people hot under the collar in the United States. The Patent Docs blog, for example, approvingly…
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IP is a key to an Indian and Chinese challenge of US leadership
There has been a lot of coverage of a recent report prepared by the US National Intelligence Council which states that by 2025 the United States will be facing a serious challenge to its hegemony…
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No free ride in battle against patent trolls, says RPX co-founder
More details have emerged about RPX Corp, the anti-NPE (troll) venture first covered on this blog back in September. Designed as a defensive patent fund, RPX will invite companies to contribute between $35,000 and $4.9 million…