Katonomics 8: Business Models from ipkitten.blogspot.com Not all models are dummies ... In this, the second post in the second series of Katonomics, the IPKat weblog's resident (and increasingly popular) Katonomite,
Dr Nicola Searle, continues her introduction to economics for intellectual ...
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BGH: no privacy for porn actor from ipkitten.blogspot.com The German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) recently had to decide in another case concerning privacy/personality and freedom of expression/media: case reference
VI ZR 332/09 of 25 October 2011, published in December 2011 ...
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Monday miscellany Part 2 from ipkitten.blogspot.com Via David Lucas (whom the Kats thank) comes a YouTube link to
this interview with
Michael O'Leary at the Innovation Convention 2011. Michael is CEO of Ryanair, an airline on which this Kat does ...
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Monday miscellany Part 1 from ipkitten.blogspot.com IPKat guest bloggers. Earlier this month the IPKat proudly announced Norman Siebrasse as the first of a batch of guest bloggers for the first half of 2012. Today he is pleased to introduce the second ...
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SOPA Blackout Gathers Momentum, Includes Wikipedia from patentlawip.blogspot.com Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales
If you’re planning on using Wikipedia this Wednesday, January 18th, you may be disappointed. The web site is strongly considering a 12 hour blackout, to protest the Stop Online Piracy ...
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Can IP Counsel Have a Business Strategy? from ipkitten.blogspot.com Fellow Kat Jeremy's blog of earlier today
here contains Jeremy's usual erudite commentary about IP and business strategy. Goodness knows this Kat has on occasion also offered his thoughts about this subject. But ...
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Rooney Doesn’t Have To Pay Commissions Due To Unfair Restraint Of Trade from www.iposgoode.ca Brent Randall is a JD candidate at the University of Ottawa. On December 1, 2011, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales ruled on a case involving English soccer superstar Wayne Rooney and his ...
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Re-litigating Patent Validity In Re Construction Equipment Company from www.iposgoode.ca Brian Chau is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. A recent case, In Re Construction Equipment Company, came through the US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, which highlighted potential conflicts between findings of ...
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Www.DomainRush.xxx from www.iposgoode.ca Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In response to the creation of a new, adult entertainment-centric domain – .XXX – many universities and trademark holders are buying up potentially pornographic versions of ...
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Announcing the Winners of the 2011 Canada’s IP Writing Challenge from www.iposgoode.ca Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode. Michel Gérin is the Executive Director of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada. IP Osgoode and the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC ...
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IPOsgoode: Call For Applications from www.iposgoode.ca The application deadlines for a number of exciting opportunities with IPOsgoode is fast approaching! See below for more information. Call for IPilogue Editors (Summer 2012) Deadline: January 26, 2012 IPilogue is the first blog of ...
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Kettle Of Fish: The Concept Of Originality In Protecting Photographic Works from www.iposgoode.ca Andrew Baker is a LLB/BCL candidate at McGill University Faculty of Law. A decision of the Cour de Cassation de la France has led to some uncertainty as to when a photograph constitutes an ...
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Pro Bono trademark services for non-profits from www.erikpelton.com Erik M. Pelton & Associates, PLLC (“EMP&A;”), an experienced boutique trademark law firm in Falls Church, Virginia, is launching a new pro bono initiative for 2012. The firm is seeking several non-profits to work with ...
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Patent Analysts: The ‘Assistant Buyers’ For Your IP Licensing Store from gametimeip.com When I read (and write) job listings for “Patent Analysts,” I become acutely aware that the phrase apparently means different things to different people. One company that interviewed me a few years go said I ...
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Change Of Year Brings Changes In IP Policy, Law Communities from www.ip-watch.org The turning of a New Year offers the opportunity to catch up on a range of recent personnel changes in the international IP policy and legal communities.
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Guest Post: Should you Submit Third-Party Prior Art? from www.patentlyo.com By Paul Morgan Introduction and Summary On January 5 the PTO proposed a new 37 CFR §1.290 in the Federal Register for third party pre-issuance submissions of prior art in patent applications of others ...
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Kappos 2.0: USPTO Funding, Board Hiring & Harmonization from www.ipwatchdog.com In this installment we learn from Director Kappos that the USPTO budget is not a problem whatsoever. While the Office did not achieve a permanent end to fee diversion, Congress has appropriated $2.7 billion ...
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WHO Board Considers Reform, Director Re-Election, Key IP-Related Issues from www.ip-watch.org The UN World Health Organization Executive Board opened its annual January meeting today with a substantive agenda of reform, election, and a variety of issues that touch on intellectual property rights, research and development and ...
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Maintaining trade secrets, from company employees from ipbiz.blogspot.com The yahoo story
Chiefs employees live in environment of ‘secrecy, intimidation, and fear’ included the text:
Staff members with office windows facing the team's practice fields were directed to keep the shades in their ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Shameless "Subway" product placement in Hawaii-Five-O on 16 Jan 2012 from ipbiz.blogspot.com In this season's episode 14, titled Pu'olo (The Package) , there is a commercial for Subway imbedded in the drama with Taylor Wily ("Kamekona") delivering the message. The next Jason? During the show, Kamekona ...
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