http://www.innovators-network.org Helping entrepreneurs identify, understand, and leverage the value in their business Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:54:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The 271 Patent Blog: Peter Zura features South Korea's move to curtail patent abuses by companies foreign and domestic in his recent post entitled South Korea Launches "Largest-Ever" Antitrust Probe on Patent Abuse. Zura calls out a quote from Mobile Business Briefing to help explain the situation: Companies ... http://www.innovators-network.org/2010/08/11/south-korea-starts-sweeping-investigation-into-patent-abuse/ KSN.com: Graphic novel maven Stan Lee has been on the other end of legal battles over intellectual property but this time he's the target of a lawsuit claiming his use of the term "Super Seven" infringes on a toy company's trademark. Stan Lee sued over trademark ... http://www.innovators-network.org/2010/08/10/stan-lee-battles-for-super-seven-rights/ Helium: D. Vogt tackles the contents of The Berne Convention, which is one of the seminal pieces of legislation that laid out intellectual property protections and rights. In his aptly titled piece, Intellectual Property law: Rules governing the Berne Convention, Vogt writes on many aspects of this 19th ... http://www.innovators-network.org/2010/08/09/berne-convention-paved-the-way-to-modern-ip-protection/ Gigaom: Liz Gannes highlights Facebook's recent acquisition of a portfolio of patents from the seemingly defunct social website, Friendster, in her recent piece Facebook Buys Friendster Patents for $40M. She writes: The Friendster patents, which date back to the early days of social networking, are incredibly broad. They cover things like ... http://www.innovators-network.org/2010/08/06/facebook-scores-patent-coup-in-social-networking-portfolio-purchase/ PCMag.com:  Chloe Albanesius reports on the recent detente between Microsoft and Salesforce.com in her topically-titled piece, Microsoft, Salesforce Settle Patent Infringement Suit. She writes on the deal worked out between the two software companies over a disputed patent infringement: Microsoft announced Wednesday that it has settled its ... http://www.innovators-network.org/2010/08/05/microsoft-salesforce-com-combine-ip-portfolios-let-bygones-be-bygones/ The Washington Post: In the most significant seizure of fake copyright-protected goods to hit the West Coast yet, a treasure trove of counterfeit products valued at some $100 million was taken from 8 stores on San Francisco's famous Fisherman's Wharf. Jerry Markon reports on this major coup ... http://www.innovators-network.org/2010/08/04/feds-sieze-huge-trove-of-counterfeit-goods-in-california/ LA Times: One of the original video game companies is back in business after traveling a somewhat sad and tortuous path through almost 3 decades of acquisitions and sell-offs. Ben Fritz covers Atari's return to life in his topical piece, Atari reboot is underway, and notes that intellectual property had ... http://www.innovators-network.org/2010/08/03/atari-returns-to-life-thanks-to-valuable-intellectual-property/ There's been a lot of buzz about the triennial review of DMCA provisions, specifically the one that said owners of smartphones (basically iPhones) may now circumvent or “jailbreak” the access controls to the firmware in order to add and run interoperable third-party applications. While this looks to be a huge shift ... http://www.innovators-network.org/2010/08/02/jailbreaking-how-the-dmca-works/ Music Industry News Network:  The Copyright Alliance is going on a grand tour of the US, spreading the good word about intellectual property protection far and wide. From the MIN2 folks come more details of this summer tour in a topical piece entitled 35 States In 35 Days: Copyright Alliance Hits The ... http://www.innovators-network.org/2010/08/02/copyright-alliance-kicks-off-summer-of-intellectual-property-love-tour/ ArsTechnica.com: The people behind a large number of "John Doe" lawsuits have apparently "borrowed" heavily from a similar group's website and are being called out on it by none other than Nate Anderson, who reports on the matter in his topical post, Anti-P2P lawyers accused of copyright hypocrisy. He writes: Have ... http://www.innovators-network.org/2010/07/31/us-copyright-group-appear-to-have-copied-website-verbatim/