" In photo (left to right): Seth Pinsky, president, New York City Economic Development Corporation; John Harrington, president, Axis Group, Inc.; Congressman Jerrold Nadler; Daniel Dienst, executive officer, Sims Metal Management Group; BP Markowitz; Carl Hum, president, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce; Mayor Bloomberg; Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez Photo credit: Kathryn Kirk Press release from the Mayor's Office: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PR- 335-09 July 20, 2009 … [read post]

(The Prior Art) Ways to avoid a USPTO ethics investigation (IP Updates)   US Patents – Decisions CAFC: Qualcomm penalised for failure to disclose patents to standard setting organisation and for litigation misconduct in failing to produce evidence: Qualcomm Inc v Broadcom Corp (IP Law Observer) (Patently-O) (Promote the Progress) (Law360) (Patent Prospector) (Hal Wegner) (PLI) CAFC upholds judgment enjoining inventor from asserting patent against Unitronics or its… [read post]

You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com]   Highlights this week included: Belgium - eBay wins ruling against L’Oreal in dispute over liability for counterfeit goods sold in online auctions: (Managing Intellectual Property), (Counterfeit Chic), (IPKat), (Class 46), (Techdirt), (Ars Technica) US CAFC holds that copying free software without complying with license is copyright infringement: Robert Jacobsen v… [read post]