Patent & IP news for May 14, 2011

ACI Hatch-Waxman Boot Camp from www.patentdocs.org

American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding the next session of its Hatch-Waxman Boot Camp conference on July 18-19, 2011 in San Diego, CA. ACI faculty will help attendees: • Understand the interplay of the PTO ...

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Mma Fighters Fighting It Out In Court Over Copyright And Trademark Rights from tacticalip.com

  By: Rene L. Dial I say take it to the mat and winner take all. Mixed martial artist turned politician Matt Lindland was sued for trademark and copyright infringement, among other claims, by former partner ...

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Social Media Pitfalls – Common Yet Avoidable Mistakes Attorneys Make from ipwatchdog.com

Social media has taken the world by storm. Everyone from college students, to politicians, to news media outlets, to business professionals, to small and big businesses, to musicians and artists and other individual people both ...

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Indigenous Peoples Won’t Be “Wished Away” In Traditional Knowledge Treaty Talks from www.ip-watch.org

Students of colonial history are told that indigenous peoples were in the past asked to sign treaties that may not have been in their best interest or that were not honoured. Now, under the aegis ...

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New Reports On TRIPS And Tech Transfer, LDC Needs from www.ip-watch.org

Two new reports circulated in Geneva this week examine ways to improve technology transfer to least-developed countries (LDCs) as mandated under international intellectual property trade rules, and assessments of the intellectual property needs of LDCs ...

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