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IP lawyers eye new patent-licensing marketplace

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Patent Solutions

newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com - Pannekoek said IPXI has commitments for more than $750 million of intellectual property to be listed off the bat. Philips Electronics, Hewlett-Packard, Sony Corp and the University of California sa...

UK ISPs Block Huge Movie Site Movie2K, Proxy Immediately Unblocks

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TorrentFreak

torrentfreak.com - Internet service providers in the UK have today begun blocking one of the world’s largest streaming movie portals. In a follow up to similar actions, the MPAA obtained a High Court order which comp...

NDCA issues order on early damages disclosure

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Patent Damages

patent-damages.com - On March 8, 2013, the NDCA issued an opinion in Eon Corp. IP Holding LLC v. Sensus USA Inc., No. C-12-01011 EMC (EDL) (Doc. No. 657), concerning defendants’ request that plaintiff provide early dis...

Article Traces Rise of a Phone Patent over 11 Years and 4 Owners

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Gene Quinn

ipcloseup.wordpress.com - It’s a hard-knock life for some patents, so says an insightful article appearing in the current IEEE Spectrum that provides a behind-the-scenes look at the road traveled by a single smart phone pat...

Telecom’s Big Players Hold Back the Future - NYTimes.com

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Elliott Alderman

nytimes.com - Susan Crawford, a professor at the school, has written a book, “Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age,” that offers a calm but chilling state-of-play on th...

Countries And Cities Can Learn From Smart Businesses: It's All About Reputation - Forbes

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Reputation Institute

forbes.com - Insights interview with Nicolas Georges Trad, Executive Partner, Reputation Institute and Fernando Prado, Managing Partner, Reputation Institute Bruce Rogers – Should countries, cities, places in g...

Websense Agrees to Private-Equity Buyout for $906 Million - Bloomberg

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bloomberg.com - Websense Inc. (WBSN), a website-filtering company that is shifting into Internet security, will be acquired by private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners for about $906 million. Websense investors w...

Igor | Chartis helps AIG hide in plain sight

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igorinternational.com - The viable bit of warm and snuggly insurance company AIG has been spun-off and dubbed “Chartis”. A bad name? Well, yes. But that is just what they needed. Sometimes a terrible name is the perfect n...

Essential elements for effective IP management

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CPA Global

emea.cpaglobal.com - Haydn Evans, VP of IP Services Solutions at CPA Global, looks at how companies in the speciality chemicals sector can find the right IP formula. R&D and intellectual property (IP) rights are at the...

INFOGRAPHIC: Electric Vehicles, Hybrids & IP - Intellectual Property Insiders

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Mikk Putk

ipinsiders.com - Following the World Electric Vehicle Summit, ClearViewIP took a look back at our patent landscape to trace the developments in the industry and identify the role intellectual property has played: h...

How to protect your trademark in China

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The IP Exporter

chinalawblog.com - As often as we write about the need to register your trademarks in China, we have never written about how common it is for your China distributer to take your trademark and of how easy it is to pre...

American University Intellectual Property Brief » Bowman Decision a Win for Big Business

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The IP Brief

ipbrief.net - Do second-generation soybean seeds deserve the same patent rights as their predecessors?   Or should the conditional sale doctrine be considered when investigating soybean patent rights rather than...

10 Tips for Managing Litigation for Superior Results and Cost Savings - Intellectual Property Insiders

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Mikk Putk

ipinsiders.com - Earlier this year, a U.S. District Court approved the payment of $308 million in attorney fees to 116 law firms in a single case (TFT-LCD Antitrust Litigation), with one firm receiving $75 million ...

IP: Brand protection and expansion

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Sterne Kessler

insidecounsel.com - It is estimated that intellectual property comprises a full 80 percent of the value of most businesses today. A good percentage of this value comes from the goodwill consumers associate with the co...

UK ISPs Block Huge Movie Site Movie2K, Proxy Immediately Unblocks

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Music + Movie Piracy

torrentfreak.com - Internet service providers in the UK have today begun blocking one of the world’s largest streaming movie portals. In a follow up to similar actions, the MPAA obtained a High Court order which comp...

MyMedicalRecords Files Patent Infringement Complaint Against Jardogs, a Subsidiary of Allscripts

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IP Infringement

marketwire.com - LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwired - May 20, 2013) - MyMedicalRecords, Inc. ("MMR"), a wholly owned subsidiary of MMRGlobal, Inc. (OTCQB: MMRF), today announced the filing of a complaint for patent infr...

Elan Announces Proposed Offering of US$800.0 Million in Aggregate Principal Amount of Senior Notes Due 2021 - MarketWatch

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marketwatch.com - DUBLIN, May 20, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Elan Corporation, plc ("Elan") /quotes/zigman/170510/quotes/nls/eln ELN +0.69% today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Elan Finance public limite...

S.912 - 113th Congress (2013-2014) - - Bill Text | Congress.gov

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Jon K. Perala

beta.congress.gov - Text: S.912 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) Shown Here: Introduced in Senate (05/09/2013) [Congressional Bills 113th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Printing Office] [S. 912 Introduced in Senate (...

9 ways for entrepreneurs to make the most of social media

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TechTransferTactics

technologytransfertactics.com - Blogger and start-up guru Martin Zwilling recently posted an article on how start-ups can utilize social media to the fullest. Everyone knows social media is important to a business, Zwilling says,...

Winston & Strawn LLP > Legal Services > Advertising, Marketing & Privacy Law Practice > Blog

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winston.com - The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reviewed a dismissal of a class action complaint that was filed against Time Warner regarding its advertising claims for its Road Runner Internet service...

Pentagon approves iPhones, iPads for military use - The Washington Post

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Jonathan D. Frieden

washingtonpost.com - Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the announcement. Earlier this month, the Pentagon gave its nod to new phones from Samsung that run a business-focused version of Googl...

Common Patentee Missteps in Inter Partes Review

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Pamela Tippett

lexisnexis.com - Preliminary Responses: Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should The new post grant patentability challenges of the America Invents Act (AIA) have been warmly embraced by the public as a cost ef...

Newegg nukes “corporate troll” Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year

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Article One Partners

arstechnica.com - In 2011, Alcatel-Lucent had American e-commerce on the ropes. The French telecom had sued eight big retailers and Intuit saying that their e-commerce operations infringed Alcatel patents; one by on...

Protecting intellectual property rights highlighted for foreign investments - Eleven Myanmar

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Pantros IP

elevenmyanmar.com - Myanmar officials at a meeting on industrial design right (Photo - EMG) Myanmar’s Science and Technology Deputy Minister said protection of intellectual property rights will promote foreign direct ...

Yahoo officially acquires Tumblr for $1.1 billion, promises “not to screw it up” — Tech News and Analysis

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gigaom.com - Yahoo and Tumblr announced Monday morning that Yahoo has officially acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. In the release, the companies noted that “Per the agreement and our promise not to scre...

Tesco plans to roll-out F&F brand - Telegraph

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Intangible Business

telegraph.co.uk - Tesco plans to roll-out F&F brand Tesco has unveiled plans to roll-out over 50 new franchise clothing stores in the coming five years as it seeks to expand the F&F brand. Tesco is linking up with f...

IPO Facto

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Pamela Tippett

ipo.gov.uk - The Economics, Research & Evidence (ERE) team at the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is pleased to launch our new research blog, IPO Facto.  This blog will be a place to discuss the economics of...

Hearings | Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

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Ken Jarboe

hsgac.senate.gov - The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has scheduled a hearing, “Offshore Profit Shifting and the U.S. Tax Code - Part 2 (Apple, Inc.)” on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at 9:30 a.m. in Room 106 of t...

Innovative Speech Recognition IP Package for Sale by ICAP Patent Brokerage - PR Newswire - The Sacramento Bee

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Dr. Gray, MBA

sacbee.com - CHICAGO, May 20, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- ICAP Patent Brokerage announces for sale a patented speech recognition solution including functionality for both speech-to-text and text-to-speech conversio...

Natural News challenges Angelina Jolie to denounce corporate patents on human genes

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IP Navigation Group

naturalnews.com - About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health researcher, author and award-winning journalist with a passion for sharing empowering information to help improve personal and planetary health He h...

Accounting's shortcomings for most organizations today

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Mary Adams

linkedin.com - There is a clear and succinct post at WSJ I recommend called Shift to Valuations, Estimates Challenges Auditors  that talks about the challenges auditors face…

Geolocation: The Next Privacy Frontier :: Via Satellite

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Elliott Alderman

satellitetoday.com - If Facebook asks “What’s on your mind?” and Twitter asks “What’s happening?” who will ask “Where are you?” Well, it turns out that there may be no need to ask that question if an app on your smartp...

IPXI Market Rulebook

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IPXI

ipxi.com - The IPXI Market Rulebook (the “Rulebook”) sets forth rules governing the issuance, trading, enforcement, auditing and Consumption of products offered on the exchange operated by Intellectual Proper...

Merger & Acquisition tally at $1.66 bn, rise in inbound deals: Thornton

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Intangible Business

financialexpress.com - According to audit and advisory firm Grant Thornton, the total value of M&A deals in the month of April were valued at USD 1.66 billion through 39 deals as compared to USD 1.97 billion by way of 60...

The Low-Down: We're Number 3! Microsoft Surpasses Blackberry in Mobile Phone Sales

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Jonathan Low

thelowdownblog.com - We're Number 3! Microsoft Surpasses Blackberry in Mobile Phone Sales Alright, go ahead and scoff, all you smug iPhone and Android users. Be happy in your choice. But if the projections about mobile...

IPXI Releases Updated Market Rulebook

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ipxi.com - CHICAGO, May 16, 2013 – Intellectual Property Exchange International, Inc. (IPXI), the world's first financial exchange for licensing and trading intellectual property (IP) rights, announced today ...

Weekly Roundup May 13 to 17, 2013

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Jeffrey Sheldon

eyeonip.net - Which Countries Pose the Highest IP Risks to U.S. Businesses? Patent vs. Trade Secret Protection: Which One Is Better? Latest High-Profile Software Decision Tackles Standard-Essential Patents Paten...

Telus agrees to acquire Mobilicity for $380 million, despite Canada's push for increased mobile competition

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engadget.com - Mobilicity approaches TELUS to enter into agreement ensuring service continues for 250,000 customers VANCOUVER, May 16, 2013 /CNW/ - TELUS has entered into an agreement with Mobilicity to acquire t...

AT&T Uses Data From Its Own Ads To Help Network Advertisers

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Jonathan Low

adage.com - AT&T is the country's fifth largest ad spender -- and now its using data gleaned from its own digital advertising to to help other marketers that buy inventory through AT&T's AdWorks business. ... ...

Patent searching, landscaping, mapping, and portfolio analytics - what are the differences? - AmberBlog

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Ambercite Com

ambercite.com - As the quantity and value of patent filings, acquisition and litigation increases rapidly, there has been an big increase in the number of specialists offering services around the analysis of paten...

Bowman decision affirms future of seed biotechnology - World News Report

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EIN Patents News

world.einnews.com - EIN News has been a leader in online news services since 1995. Nearly 10 million people visited our publicly available news sites during the last year, a testament to the depth and quality of our e...

Qatar Buys 40% Stake in Milan’s Porta Nuova Business District - Bloomberg

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Intangible Business

bloomberg.com - Qatar Holding LLC, a unit of the Persian Gulf emirate’s sovereign-wealth fund, agreed to buy a 40 percent stake in Milan’s newly built Porta Nuova business district to expand its Italian real estat...

Banking privacy prevails over copyright enforcement, Dutch court rules - PC Advisor

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Patricia Williams

pcadvisor.co.uk - Privacy laws protecting bank account holders are more important than providing information to aid in copyright enforcement, according to a Dutch court ruling this week. The Dutch ING Bank doesn't h...

Yahoo in Talks to Acquire Tumblr

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Intangible Business

adweek.com - Is Marissa Mayer about to make a game-changing acquisition? It appears so. Yahoo is in serious talks with Tumblr to acquire the social blogging site, according to multiple sources familiar with the...

Supreme Court Supports Monsanto in Patent Dispute - The Daily Beast

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Jill D. Martin

thedailybeast.com - But as the Supreme Court unanimously agreed, the exhaustion doctrine applies only to individual, patented articles—not to copies of the product. For instance, if Xerox sold a copier that could make...

Monsanto works against interests of farmers, planet - World News Report

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EIN Patents News

world.einnews.com - EIN News has been a leader in online news services since 1995. Nearly 10 million people visited our publicly available news sites during the last year, a testament to the depth and quality of our e...

Russian supermarket chain prohibited from using Adidas trademark

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Patricia Williams

rapsinews.com - MOSCOW, May 16 (RAPSI) - The Federal Commercial Court of the Moscow District has upheld a lower court's decision prohibiting X5 Retail Group's supermarket chain Perekrestok from using the three-str...

PCT Newsletter

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Jill D. Martin

wipo.int - On 3 May 2013, Saudi Arabia deposited its instrument of accession to the PCT, thus becoming the 147th Contracting State of the PCT, and on 3 August 2013, will become bound by the PCT. Consequently,...

Innovative Speech Recognition IP Package for Sale by ICAP Patent Brokerage - Press Release - Digital Journal

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The IP GAL

digitaljournal.com - CHICAGO, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ICAP Patent Brokerage announces for sale a patented speech recognition solution including functionality for both speech-to-text and text-to-speech conversion f...

Zynga Claims Trademark Rights To “With Friends”

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The IP GAL

thedomains.com - According to Techcrunch,  Zynga who recently launched runningwithfriends.com, and also owns and operates Words With Friends®, Chess With Friends®, Scramble With Friends®, Hanging With Friends™, Mat...