(IP finance), Microsoft and Nikon sign patent cross-licensing agreement covering consumer electronics: (Managing Intellectual Property), World day against software patents: (Spicy IP), (IPKat), Patents.com – PatentMonkey redux: (The Patent Librarian’s Notebook), Women and patents: it is not working at the moment: (IAM) Experts discuss the role of IP in environmental technology transfer: (Intellectual Propery Watch), WIPO’s 2008 World Patent Report: (The Patent… [read post]

But (as we discussed here a few months ago) whenever the Court gets dramatically out of step with the public, and issues intensely controversial, narrowly divided opinions, all of that carefully hoarded legitimacy can go out the window. [read post]