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  • The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is set to accept its 2,000th petition this month, following it going past the 1,900 mark and accepting its first post-grant review petition in August
  • Peter Spours, former chief IP officer at TomTom, has joined IP consultancy ClearViewIP as managing consultant
  • Europe’s highest court has ruled that the author of a work that is parodied with a discriminatory message may demand that the work is not associated with the message
  • On August 8 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received the go-ahead from the White House’s Office of Management & Budget to conduct a study on patent assertion entities (PAEs), or patent trolls. The FTC told Managing IP the goal is to complete the study next year
  • Next week we’ll be hosting a free webinar on successful early resolution strategies for IP disputes, featuring Edward A Mas and Leland G Hansen of McAndrews Held & Malloy and Vaishali Udupa of Hewlett-Packard
  • An interesting debate has broken out between two opposing centres at the Virginia-based George Mason University over intellectual property’s effect on job creation
  • The European Patent Office has launched a project called Early Certainty from Search. The Office’s Vice President Guillaume Minnoye tells James Nurton why it is needed, and explains how it will benefit both applicants and third parties
  • International law firm Simmons & Simmons has hired George Chan as a partner in Beijing
  • Five lawyers have joined together to set up a new firm specialising in IP and IT in Vienna, called GEISTWERT
  • Australia has recently maintained the long tradition of denying traders the right to appropriate geographical place names for their exclusive use. In Kosciuszko Thredbo Pty Limited v ThredboNet Marketing Pty Limited [2014] FCAFC 87, Kosciuszko Thredbo, the operators of the popular Australian ski resort Thredbo, attempted to stop ThredboNet from using the name, suing on a plethora of different grounds.