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  • USPTO director David Kappos gave prizes to retired commissioner for trademarks Lynne Beresford and former chief IP counsel of 3M Gary Griswold at Managing IP’s North America awards ceremony in Washington DC last night
  • The IP survey consists of rankings of the leading firms practising intellectual property in each country, presented in tiers. The total number of firms listed in each jurisdiction varies according to the size of the market. The survey is not an exhaustive list of every firm in each jurisdiction; even firms listed in the lower tiers have been recommended by a number of practitioners and deserve congratulations on their inclusion.
  • Three UK patents for electronic programme guides (EPGs) owned by Gemstar are to be revoked, after the Court of Appeal upheld a lower ruling today.
  • A monthly column devoted to IP curiosities and controversies, named in honour of John of Utynam – who received the world’s first recorded patent in 1449 diary@managingip.com
  • The Court of Justice of the EU has limited the ability of geographical indications to block the registration of trade marks, in the latest ruling concerning the Bud mark
  • Publishers can survive and even profit from piracy, argues Peter Ollier, as long as they learn the mistakes from the movie and music industries, and focus on innovation
  • A survey by market research company NPD Group has shown that peer-to-peer (P2P) use has declined since a New York court ordered the closure of the file-sharing service LimeWire.
  • As Managing IP was going to press, Judge Denny Chin of the US District Court in Manhattan said that the proposed Google Book Search settlement would effectively reward Google "for engaging in wholesale copying of copyrighted works without permission".
  • One way in which book publishers might learn from the movie industry is to consider the suggestions from the Don't Make Me Steal Manifesto. In February this year a group of web developers, designers and consumers of digital content produced the manifesto. Signatories, (14,995 and counting) promise never to download a film illegally if the following criteria are met.