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The Mad Men of IP

In the early 1960s, patent practice was quiet and inventors often faced a hostile environment. But then, like now, new technologies were emerging to reshape business and the economy. Across North America, innovative lawyers set up boutique firms that would transform the market, many of which still exist today. Fifty years on, Jakob Schnaidt tells their story

August 24 2016

What's inside our April issue

Copyright rankings, design developments, managing brand protection, a rare patent case in Hong Kong, our latest UPC scenario, and why you have been doing patent drawings wrong - just some of the articles in the April issue of Managing IP

April 13 2016

Automotive industry tries to put the brakes on NPEs

Following a near-doubling of patent litigation in the automotive industry in the past three years, car makers are hitting back at NPEs through PTAB petitions and defensive patent aggregators such as Unified Patents

July 01 2015

China’s IP strategy: The domestic perspective

China’s National IP Strategy has its share of critics, especially when it comes to incentives for patent filings. Xianjie Ding and Di Yao argue, however, that despite legitimate concerns about a patent bubble, there is also significant progress being made

Managing IP Correspondent, August 28 2013

US music publishers push for deregulation of songwriter royalties

According to David Israelite of National Music Publishers Association, music services such as Spotify and Pandora are taking advantage of antiquated laws and decrees that date back to the First and Second World War at the expense of songwriters

November 06 2015

Six tips for patenting computer games in Europe

How can computer games makers obtain patent protection in Europe? Pete Sadler assesses decisions by the EPO and explains the Office’s thinking

Managing IP Correspondent, December 11 2014

How to avoid the FTC not “liking” your next campaign

The US Federal Trade Commission is clamping down on native advertising and the use of endorsements on social media. A settlement with Lord & Taylor in March provides a number of lessons for brands, as outlined by Meryl Bernstein

Managing IP Correspondent, September 27 2016

Judge Koh, WIPO, Dominion Harbor, WiLAN, Marathon, Uniloc, Copyright Royalty Board, Booking.com, Disney – the week in IP

The IP headlines last week included Judge Lucy Koh being nominated for the Ninth Circuit, a House of Representatives hearing on WIPO, Dominion Harbor buying WiLAN patents, Marathon and Uniloc calling off their merger, the Copyright Royalty Board agreeing to a rehearing for SoundExchange, Booking.com not being allowed to register its name as a trade mark, and Disney asking employees to pitch in to help in its copyright fight

February 29 2016

Protecting the marks from the mountain

Vice-President and Associate General Counsel of Del Monte Corporation Timothy Ernst tells Fionn O’Raghallaigh how the company’s licensing structure affects trademark strategy, especially given the variety of products the company is involved with.

Managing IP Correspondent, May 18 2011

EPO’s Admin Council chair expects action by June

The EPO’s Administrative Council has called on the Organisation’s management and staff “to work diligently and in good faith” to find a way out of the current crisis, as its Chair Jesper Kongstad told Managing IP in an exclusive interview

March 18 2016

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