You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com]   Highlights this week included: DRM for streaming music dies a quiet death: (Electronic Frontier Foundation), (Techdirt) CAFC decides Apotex and Impax infringed AstraZeneca’s Prilosec patents: (Law360), (Patent Prospector), (Patent Docs), (GenericsWeb), CAFC upholds lower court’s decision finding USPTO was within its rights to subject a Cooper… [read post]

: (Spicy IP), It’s a mad idea, but it might just work – Sun’s decision to reduce number of patent applications: (IAM) More alternative ADR practices: preventing patent shark attacks: (The IP ADR Blog), The ADR: insurance and indemnity agreements – protecting against patent terrorists: (The IP ADR Blog), Language and IP value and valuation: (Pat Sullivan’s Blog)   Global - Copyright Grammy winner, Joss Stone, shows support for music… [read post]

Lawyers describe the video-game industry as being similar to the music and movie businesses. [read post]

First, on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 7, I tried out NYC's newest concert venue, The Times Center Stage, in the new headquarters building of The New York Times at 41st Street & 8th Avenue, where a new organization, The Gotham Early Music Scene, Inc., presented a series of programs exposing the wide variety of early music groups resident in the city. [read post]

  An old friend of mine likes to say that people stick together in smaller and smaller affinity groups (her favorite example of a hypothetical small group is left-handed Jewish lesbian redheaded Cuban feminists). [read post]