According to the reports, the intelligence agencies have, among other things, collaborated with technology companies and ISPs to insert secret vulnerabilities – known as backdoors or trapdoors – into commercial encryption software, computer chips, and devices, covertly influenced their product designs, and introduced weaknesses into security standards. [read post]

(Managing Intellectual Property) (Law360) (Out-Law)   Global Global - General Barack Obama and US IP Policy, IP litigation and share price, IP Strategy and open innovation – IP Think Tank podcast 19 January 2009 (IP Think Tank) Three ways to maintain your IP intelligence edge in lean times (Thomson Reuters Scientific) International standards organisation solicits views on improving the intangible valuation process (IAM) What is an IP strategist? [read post]

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 patent to… [read post]