: (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]

You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at [feeds.feedburner.com]Highlights this week included:Chinese company Zhongyi Electronic sues Microsoft for alleged patent infringement relating to technology that converts Roman characters to Chinese characters: (Jurist), (China Hearsay), (IP Dragon),US Patent reform and surrounding controversy: general commentary and opinions: (Patent Baristas), (IPBiz), (IPBiz), (IPBiz), (Patent … [read post]

The Fourth Circuit apparently was not persuaded.Starbucks threatens Michigan’s Conga Coffee & Tea over the latter’s green concentric circle logo. [read post]