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The encompass storey of number 17 of Intellectual Asset Management is the induction of the start educate of inductees into the publishers' IP Hall of Fame. Under the championship "World beaters", portraits of an avuncular Arpad Bogsch (left) in addition to a fairly jolly Alexander von Muehlendahl (right) gaze out benignly, leaving the IPKat a niggling unsure every bit to who or what it was that they were trying to beat. Merpel notes that Hall of Fame inductions are going to live on an annual effect in addition to wonders whether in that place shoudn't besides live on a Hall of Infamy for people who actually spoil things for IP enthusiasts, similar (i) whoever it is inward the UK's Department of Trade in addition to Industry who won't lodge the 2nd in addition to sum overhaul of the Copyright, Designs in addition to Patents Act 1988 in addition to (ii) the people who ruined the the U.S.A. BlackBerry litigation yesteryear allowing it to settle ...

On a to a greater extent than serious note, this number includes the next rather to a greater extent than serious fabric (the form out of materials that justifies the subscription cost):

* STMicroelectronics' Lisa Jorgenson writes on licensing practise inward the semiconductor manufacture - an fantabulous review of a champaign of study which is almost every bit familiar to most IP practitioners every bit the night side of the moon;

* Bruce Berman's thesis that it's keen patents that stifle innovation, but rather long pendency times in addition to the terms of litigation;

* a study on the AUTM (Association of University Technology Managers) annual conference inward Orlando, Florida, which takes a wide persuasion of academy tech transfer issues.

Right: tech transfer is in addition to so ofttimes a enquiry of getting the correct residual - non something to monkey some with.

Details of this number are non withal online, but yous tin read almost issues xv in addition to xvi here.


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The start number of book 2 of Oxford University Press's quarterly Journal of Competition Law & Economics has but been published. Of item involvement to intellectual belongings enthusiasts are

* "Unilateral Refusals to License", yesteryear the triumvirate of Herbert Hovenkamp, Mark D. Janis in addition to Mark A. Lemley and

* "Antitrust Analysis for the Internet Upstream Market: a Border Gateway Protocol Approach", yesteryear Alessio d'Ignazio in addition to Emanuele Giovannetti.

You tin persuasion the sum contents of this number here.