Interesting intellectual property stories in the final two weeks of 2016 included an important New York ruling on pre-1972 sound recordings, Qualcomm being fined in Korea and making patent licence deals in China, the USTR revealing its 2016 Notorious Markets List, and two lawyers being indicted for an “elaborate scheme to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars in copyright lawsuit settlements”
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