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Managing IP's 10th-anniversary list of the most influential people in IP sees Google's Larry Page at number one. Do you agree?

Long-time supervisory patent examiner Robin Evans will manage the USPTO's first satellite patent office: the Elijah J McCoy office in Detroit, Michigan, which opened on July 13. The 25 examiners and 11 administrative law judges who started July 16, however, will be trained remotely by supervisors in Alexandria and will report to commissioner for patents Peggy Focarino and director David Kappos. The office is expected to spur local job growth and is the first step in a larger expansion of the Office. Managing IP's September issue will report from the new Detroit office.

US online companies Google and Amazon led the way in applications for new gTLDs last month, as the list of 1,930 applications was published by Icann. Unveiling the list in London, Icann president and CEO Rod Beckstrom described it as "an historic day" adding: "The internet is about to change forever. A powerful change is coming."

A Northern District of California jury has found Oracle failed to prove whether Google wilfully infringed patents RE38,104 and 6,061,520. Earlier, a jury found Google infringed Oracle's copyrighted application programming interface but could not agree on whether it constituted fair use. Google has moved for a mistrial.

OHIM has updated its practice on trade mark class headings after a ruling from the Court of Justice of the EU in the IP Translator case.

The USPTO has announced it will open three new satellite offices in addition to Detroit – Dallas, Texas; San Jose, California; and Denver, Colorado. The announcement came just over one week before the USPTO's first satellite patent office opened in Detroit, Michigan. USPTO commissioner for patents Peggy Focarino said that the size and focus of each new office will differ according to region. In Detroit, the plan is to hire 125 examiners in groups of 25 each, beginning July 16. The 11 administrative law judges (ALJs) that have been hired so far for Detroit will begin even sooner. The number of examiners and ALJs in Denver, San Jose and Dallas will vary, said Focarino. Examiners in Detroit will all focus on mechanical patents for now, while the Texas office may stick to energy-related industries and California to information technology. The USPTO will send site survey teams to all three locations to determine the order in which the new offices will open. The America Invents Act mandated that the agency open at least three new offices by 2014.

Peter Leung and Emma Barraclough, Beijing

Customers of software resellers such as UsedSoft who buy an updated user licence may download the software from the copyright owner's website, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled last month.

As the 1,930 applications for new gTLDs were revealed last month, it quickly became apparent that there had been a lot of applications for similar domains, with .app for example having 13 and .home 11. Off-stage at the Icann meeting in Prague, therefore, the applicants were discussing arrangements for who would own which.

A landmark agreement between EU countries will split the proposed unitary patent court. But, as Emma Barraclough explains, one more hurdle suddenly has to be cleared for the system to go ahead