A Choice Selection Of IP-related Articles For Your Reading Enjoyment
Los Angeles Times: August Brown's Who really benefits from intellectual property law? And who should? highlights the difference of why music copyrights are nothing like seemingly similar protections given to pharmaceuticals.
Kodak Sees Roughly Break-even 2010 On Flattish Revenues by Mary Ellen Lloyd at The Wall Street Journal reports on why relying on patent royalties from old ideas is no recipe for long-term success.
"Chinese intellectual property rights (IPR) authorities have said that information transmission on the Internet should be prevented if it is found to be violating regulations set by the authority." This, from a country with hackers who have created such an IP problem for Google that they have enlisted the aid of the NSA to see exactly who is zooming who. Chinese IPR authorities urge Google to respect regulations at OneIndia for the win.
yodle local: That age-old question, What Protection Does a Patent Offer?, is potentially answered by Tom Jurgensen in his self-same titled piece. But, Jurgensen offers no guarantee of satisfaction as he specifically is not offering legal advice.
Mark Esper reports: "SMEs are an important source of innovative processes, products, and services. One way to measure a firm's propensity to innovate is through patent filings. A recent study released by U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy demonstrates that small firms produce significantly more patents per employee than large firms and that their patents are more technologically important, according to patent impact metrics." More on this topic in Esper's New Report Highlights Intellectual Property's Value to Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises at Chamber Post.
ArsTechnica.com: In wake of hack, Google negotiating cooperation with the NSA by Jon Timmer takes a closer look at a company that claims to "do no evil" deciding to enlist the aid of the Devil, oops, I mean NSA, to beat China at their own game. "...[B]oth organizations have already been the target of many complaints by privacy advocates, the NSA for its domestic surveillance efforts, Google for its data retention policies. The combination of the two would clearly make the advocates far more uneasy, and might help them make their case with the wider public. Meanwhile, as the report notes, private companies have often been loath to share information about their proprietary systems with the government for a variety of reasons." When intellectual property is at stake, Google takes a "no-holds barred" kind of fighting style.
The headline is catchy, but who has a paywall these days, any who? Boston Scientific to Pay J&J $1.73B to Settle Stent Patent Disputes opens up an IP Pandora's box that might just start a flood of similar lawsuits. The Wall Street Journal will let you read all about it if you pony up a few bills, but don't count on it being all that much better than the free stuff you can get from the Interweb tubes.
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