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  • Compared to 2013, this year has seen fewer blockbuster damages awards, with none of more than $500 million. But courts still awarded more than $100 million in eight cases
  • Iron Dome, which threatened to file an IPR petition against an NPE’s patent if it was not granted a licence for its members, has won dismissal of a lawsuit accusing it of extortion. It is not the only company using this tactic, leading to talk of “PTAB trolls” and questions of whether fee shifting should be an option at the PTAB
  • Mary Denison has been named the new Commissioner for Trademarks at USPTO, effective January 1 2015
  • VirnetX and Microsoft have signed an amended settlement and license agreement that amends and restates certain terms of their original settlement and settles their pending patent disputes
  • Uber’s attempts to get patents, the Garcia v Google rehearing, a Google/Verizon licence deal, a trade mark victory over Chick-fil-A, and the Federal Circuit's “terribly poor decision” were among the intellectual property stories hitting the headlines this week
  • Negotiations between the European Parliament, the EU Presidency and Council on the reforms to the EU Trade Mark Directive and CTM Regulation will continue next year under the Latvian Presidency, after a meeting this week was postponed.
  • Amendments to Spain’s copyright law come into effect next month. But it appears they are already having an impact on digital piracy
  • Zimbabwe has acceded to the Madrid Protocol, which will enter into force in the country on March 11 2015
  • Following the recent unrest at the EPO and last week’s meeting of the Administrative Council, Managing IP asked a series of questions to the EPO President Benoît Battistelli and Chair of the Administrative Council Jesper Kongstad
  • Staff at the EPO have been staging a series of strikes over the past month, and there have also been protests and demonstrations. Managing IP looks behind the rhetoric at what’s going on