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  • Google has joined the board of the Open Invention Network, an organisation that offers free licences to a portfolio of patents as an incentive not to sue open-source software projects including Linux.
  • Patrick Leahy this week has been trying to convince his fellow senators of the need to pass patent reform. But the Democratic Senator from Vermont, who serves as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been doing it without his former top adviser on IP issues
  • Following swift passage in Washington of comprehensive patent legislation by the House of Representatives, the Senate signals it is on a much slower timetable. Some are also trying to get the controversial issue of expanding the CBM programme back on the agenda.
  • As US politicians from both parties call for legislation to curb abusive patent litigation, patent assertion entity Intellectual Ventures has revealed a searchable list of more than 33,000 of its patents to the public.
  • Applying the existing US damages law consistently would go a long way to reducing the troll problem, it was argued during a web seminar entitled Patent Trolls & Damages held by Managing IP in association with LexisNexis
  • The way in which the USPTO calculates patent term adjustments has been challenged in several recent court cases.
  • The combined December/January issue of Managing IP is now live on the website, and it’s a good opportunity to highlight some items that are freely available to all readers
  • Do you like the idea of being filmed making a public apology to the recipient of one your company’s cease and desist letters? No? Then take note from Specialized Bicycles’ Canadian troubles
  • Law firms Wragge & Co and Lawrence Graham are to merge next year, following a vote by the partners last week
  • Though brand owners expanding into Asia understandably focus on large markets such as mainland China, jurisdictions like Hong Kong can have strategic importance that belie their size