The latest edition of The Paralegal Voice, “IP Paralegals,” co-hosted by Vicki Voisin and me, is now available at Legal Talk Network.We welcome paralegals, Colleen Sarenpa, Director of Trademarks for Polaroid Corporation at PLR Brand Services, LLC, and Gwen Spurrier, a paralegal at the Minneapolis law firm of Gray Plant Mooty, to talk about one of the fastest-growing specialty areas today: intellectual property. [read post]

You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com] Highlights this week included: EU Commission adopts proposal to extend copyright protection to performing artists from 50 to 95 years: (IPKat), (Out-Law), (IP Law360), (Patry Copyright Blog), (IPEG), (Techdirt), (Techdirt),  ‘Triway’ USPTO, EPO, JPO patent work-sharing pilot starts 28 July: (IP Updates), (Patent Docs), (Patent Prospector), (EPO),… [read post]