At the forthcoming IPBC 2010 in Munich in June, I’m look forward to moderating a session on IP and SMEs, and explore how some SMEs ...
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At the forthcoming IPBC 2010 in Munich in June, I’m look forward to moderating a session on IP and SMEs, and explore how some SMEs ...
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If for you, like me, April 2010 seemed lost in a blur of volcanic ash, and time seems to pass all to quickly without sufficient ...
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One common, and sadly continuing, complaint from small companies are the cost of obtaining registered intellectual property, eg patents or trademarks, or the cost of ...
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Did you read comics as a kid? Were they allowed in your house? Or where you like, me, deprived because of the low, common nature ...
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Often said, “The Devil’s in the detail” is a popular saying without a certain author, though Wikipedia tells me that Gustave Flaubert is the author ...
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To the classical conversational icebreaker “What is your favourite city”, I’d probably pause for a moment and then say Paris, but today I am further north, in appropriately “The Paris of the North”, Edinburgh. Now Edinburgh is not a city I know much about and I’d better say straightway, so as to avoid early annoyance [...]
Kitchen drama isn’t limited to Gordon Ramsey’s colourful histrionics, after all. A surprising tale from the restaurant world hit the streets, or rather the court rooms in the US recently as Dataworks sued Commlog over copyright and trademark infringement in Dataworks “well known” “Red Book” products, including organizational aids used in restaurants. I can feel [...]
News that Korean giant Samsung has settled with US technology licensing company Rambus for $900M to resolve a range of disputes including anti-trust and patent infringement, brings another twist in the up and down story of Rambus’ licensing ambitions. A twist that must seem very sweet after Rambus has been through some difficult times, including [...]
Let me start with a statement of belief: the ownership of intellectual property by the individual that created it, is a fundamental human right. In a sophisticated knowledge economy, owning and trading in our intellectual capital is as fundamental as trading in our labour was in a manufacturing economy. So, attacks on the systems of [...]
