Publishers’ Points

* Law publishers Globe White Page have only sent the IPKat a complimentary re-create of final result 2 of Intellectual Asset Management (September/October 2003). The encompass floor is “Microsoft gets serious virtually IP”. This may move startling tidings for those of us who convey only returned from a distant galaxy, but for the residuum of us it's virtually every bit surprising every bit "Rain sometimes falls inwards England". The article is withal quite informative, giving a practiced describe of piece of occupation organisation human relationship of how Marshall Phelps plans to rework Microsoft’s IP strategy inwards the coming years. Ed Kahn’s slice on patent mining in addition to Joff Wild’s review of the nanotech patent marketplace are besides worth a read.

* Thomson’s Great Britain imprint Sweet & Maxwell is running a “fire sale” of 30% off to a greater extent than than 110 titles, inwards areas including intellectual property. Bargains include Copinger & Skone James on Copyright (reduced from £460 to £322), Terrell on the Law of Patents (from £285 to £200) in addition to Gerald Paterson’s European Patent System (from £205 to £144). is non impressed past times this sale. In terms of the books’ overall value, the reduced prices in all probability reverberate the length of fourth dimension they convey lost currency piece they were sitting inwards the publisher’s warehouses. More to the point, when books are to a greater extent than sensibly priced in addition to are non bloated amongst hundreds of pages of appendices, to a greater extent than people volition purchase them piece they’re silent relatively up-to-date.