Tuesday, 3 February 2015

An Energetic, Engaging and Balanced Symposium on Patent, Copyright and Trademark Trolls PART IV

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The final panel was entitled, “Copyright and Trademark Trolls: Fable or Fact?”   The panelists included: Chris Arledge, Co-founder and Manag...
Saturday, 31 January 2015

An Energetic, Engaging and Balanced Symposium on Patent, Copyright and Trademark Trolls PART III

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The next panel is entitled, “The Practitioner’s Perspective:The Effect of Patent Non-Practicing Entities on Industry.”   The panelists inclu...

An Energetic, Engaging and Balanced Symposium on Patent, Copyright and Trademark Trolls PART II

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Andrew Byrnes , Chief of Staff, United States Patent and Trademark Office, was the lunch and keynote speaker.   His speech was entitled, “St...

An Energetic, Engaging and Balanced Symposium on Patent, Copyright and Trademark Trolls PART I

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The Chapman University, Fowler School of Law’s Law Review sponsored a symposium titled, “Trolls or Toll Takers: Do Intellectual Property No...
Friday, 30 January 2015

It is no fun to be a mid-market brand, whether in smartphone or diapers

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When it comes to brand placement, it is not easy these days to be in the middle of your product segment. This was graphically brought home ...

Tax fiddle? No, tax relief for fiddlers!

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Her Majesty's Treasury issued a media release last Friday which will be good news for performers of music and those who organise them co...
Friday, 23 January 2015

R&D tax credits for SMEs - help the government get it right (or at least better)

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Heads up - HMRC is consulting improvements to the radically underclaimed R&D tax credits for SMEs. They're looking at how to pro...
Wednesday, 21 January 2015

New York's Silicon Alley: the once and future (?) IPO wasteland

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With all of the talk about Silicon Alley , the name given for high tech activity in New York, the fact remains that successful technology...
Saturday, 17 January 2015

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Affirms Two Large Patent Damages Awards: $70 million and $371 million

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed two large patent damages awards recently.  The first case is Stryker Corp. v. Zim...