You can separately subscribe to the IP Think Tank Global Week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com]   Highlights this week included: WTO report confirms USTR lost on key issue of whether China’s thresholds for criminal IP enforcement are too high (Managing Intellectual Property) (IP Justice) (IP Justice) (China Hearsay) (China Law Blog) US: Judd Gregg to be nominated as Secretary of Commerce (Inventive Step) (IP Watchdog) (Peter Zura's 271 Patent Blog)… [read post]

: (Intellectual Property Watch), Why compulsory licenses are bad: a look at the sausage making process: (Techdirt) More on ACTA: (LawFont.com) Global - Trade Marks / Domain Names / Brands Brand Finance 500: the annual report on the world’s most valuable brands: (IP finance), Gretchen Olive’s ‘10 steps to an effective domain name policy’: (IPwar’s), ICANN approves GNSO proposals imposing financial penalty on registrars who engage in excessive domain… [read post]

The company, Munched, Inc. halted its ICO after being contacted by the SEC, and agreed to an order in which the Commission found that its conduct constituted unregistered securities offers and sales. [read post]