: (IPBiz), One example of when taking a license makes sense: (Anything Under the Sun Made by Man), New national-level programmes echo WIPO patent treaty: (Intellectual Property Watch), Office Open XML officially approved as international standard: (IP Watch), (Ars Technica), Free, worldwide patent search site – PriorSmart.com: (The Invent Blog) Global - Copyright Fordham IP law & policy conference: (Orphan works legislation in the US and around the… [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]

It did not take me long to realize that this approach would be both too difficult and too easy: too difficult because of the amount of complex detail and imponderabilia involved, and too easy because it is always simpler to analyze the trees and ignore the forest and the surrounding terrain. [read post]