It was reported by the Press Gazette that the Independent, which closed its print editions in 2016, has grown its revenues by 11.5 per cent in a year. [read post]

  The report noted that Internal Revenue Code § 7433 provides that a taxpayer may bring a civil action for damages against the Federal Government if an officer or employee of the IRS recklessly or intentionally, or by reason of negligence, disregards any provision of the Internal Revenue Code or related regulation in connection with the collection of Federal tax. [read post]

You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com] Highlights this week included: CAFC vacates FTC’s decision that Rambus breached antitrust duty by violating JEDEC patent disclosure rules and orders new trial: (Philip Brooks), (Techdirt), (Ars Technica), (IP Law360), (Peter Zura's 271 Patent Blog), (Hal Wegner), (IPBiz), (IP Law360), UK Court of Appeal rules on whether prior art not in the same design field… [read post]

  Soon after World War I, a committee of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws started work on a model statute. [read post]