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  • Google won its eight-year copyright battle with the Authors Guild on Thursday, after a judge said the search engine’s mass book scanning project falls under the fair use exemption
  • Lawyers are not know for their sense of humour, and patent attorneys (sad to say) even less so. So we were not optimistic when we invited our twitter followers to suggest puns for a headline on a trade mark story. Did we underestimate them?
  • For the first time last week, a High Court case in London was decided where a trade mark attorney appeared as the sole legal representation of his client. No solicitor, no barrister. Should firms and chambers be worried?
  • Businesspeople, academics and public interest organisations urged the US House of Representatives to consider legislative fixes to combat patent trolls including a registry of demand letters run by the FTC
  • Yesterday, Wikileaks released what is purported to be a negotiation copy of the IP chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). As the opposition mobilises, can the TPP avoid ACTA’s fate?
  • A conference on the thorny issue of standard-essential patents and RAND raised some difficult questions, some of them with potentially worrying consequences
  • Trade mark owners can start to register their rights in seven of the new gTLDs on November 26
  • China’s State Council is seeking comments on draft revisions to the patent examination guidelines to allow for design patent protection for computer program graphic user interfaces (GUIs)
  • Lawyers at a conference in New York on Friday debated whether the Supreme Court is “less enamoured with patents” than the Federal Circuit
  • The UK government might celebrate coming first of an index of IP regimes, and India might be disappointed to rank last. But what’s really notable is the narrowing gap between top and bottom