The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Would Like To Know What ...
Techdirt
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has a pretty long history of basically being the leading supporter of ever stricter and more ridiculous copyright (and patent and trademark laws). To be fair, in recent years, WIPO has actually been ...

Business Software Alliance Qatar's Ministry of Justice to hold intellectual ...
Jordan Directions
Software Alliance (BSA), the world's foremost advocate for the software industry, has announced that it will be holding a media roundtable on intellectual property rights (IPR) in collaboration with Qatar's Ministry of Justice.
Qatar steps up fight against pirated goodsGulf Times

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Barnes & Noble, GE, Komen, ReDigi: Intellectual Property
BusinessWeek
By Victoria Slind-Flor (This is a daily report on global news about patents, trademarks, copyright and other intellectual property topics.) Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Barnes & Noble Inc. should win a patent-infringement case brought by Microsoft Corp. that ...
Microsoft Cuts One Patent from Barnes & Noble LawsuitRedmond Channel Partner
Barnes & Noble Backed by U.S. Agency Staff in Microsoft CaseBloomberg
ITC Attorney on BnNRedmondmag.com

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Facebook Success Shows Why Intellectual Property Laws Are Stifling
PolicyMic
All of the site's success comes despite current intellectual property law, and the site is a shining example of why we should be against intellectual property (IP) laws. IP laws stifle the market by giving monopoly privilege to the “owner” of the ...

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Brain drain: Protecting your organization's intellectual property
InfoWorld
Intellectual property is increasingly targeted by hackers and inadequately secured. Here's how to protect your business's IP By Lauren Gibbons Paul | CSO Global health care provider Best Doctors employs the most robust technologies and practices ...
Brain drain: Protecting your organization's IPIDG News Service

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Why an International Trade Agreement Could Be as Bad as SOPA
The Atlantic
By Alexander Furnas International agreements for regulating intellectual property are a one-way ratchet process: enforcement and protection provisions can go up but never down. A few weeks ago a sleeping giant woke up, when the Internet -- average ...
Knights Banner: ACTA with a side of SOPAmy.hsj.org
The Jack Nicholson Answer to Hollywood Moguls on SOPA and PIPA: 'You Can't ...Huffington Post
SOPA and PIPA prompt Reddit, Mozilla, and 73 others to ask Congress to halt ...The Verge
SlashGear -University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily -Lehighvalleylive.com (blog)
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How to Protect Your Intellectual Property in the Cloud
Computerworld
Cloud services customers more often line of business leaders that IT executive -- were panicked as they began to realize that their intellectual property (IP) was now at risk. Some, like one client who discovered that he'd potentially exposed his ...

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ConforMIS Expands Intellectual Product Portfolio with 22 Issued Patents
MarketWatch (press release)
BURLINGTON, Mass., Feb 06, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ConforMIS, Inc. today announced it has completed its most productive period to date in the development of its intellectual property with the addition of 22 issued patents to its portfolio since January ...

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Motorola Mobility, Nikon, MSF, EFF: Intellectual Property
BusinessWeek
By Victoria Slind-Flor (This is a daily report on global news about patents, trademarks, copyright and other intellectual property topics. Adds Ball Corp. item in patent section.) Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. won a German ...
Apple pulls iPads and iPhones in GermanyMazuma Mobile
What is FRAND?ZDNet Australia
Motorola seeking 2.25% of Apple's mobile sales for 3G patent useTechSpot
ZDNet -Wall Street Journal
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Intellectual Property Field Analyzed At Chabad
Chabad Info
The settlement this week of a $250-million lawsuit over a decade-long fight for the use of the trademark name Target for retail stores in Canada is just the tip of the iceberg in the fast moving and lucrative world of intellectual property (IP) law.