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What if patents lasted 70 years? – Thursday, March 4, 2010

Invention capital Intellectual Ventures and You – Tuesday, March 2, 2010

You won't get what you want if you look in the wrong place – Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Scratch that assumption - industrial applicability really does have teeth – Thursday, February 18, 2010

Filing trademarks from the beach - what would google do? – Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Gong Xi Fa Cai (Happy Chinese New Year) – Sunday, February 14, 2010

The long tail and IP Strategy – Thursday, February 11, 2010

2010 IP Hall of Fame inductees announced – Tuesday, February 9, 2010

THE China IP litigation resource? and its free – Thursday, February 4, 2010

Licensing Executives Society (USA & Canada) Celebrates 45 Years – Tuesday, February 2, 2010

IP and the planet - save your logo looks good – Thursday, January 28, 2010

A little bit of background on Duncan – Tuesday, January 26, 2010

IPThinkTank - now an iPhone App – Thursday, January 14, 2010

New Article - patent harmony in Europe – Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Once in a lifetime chance to guest blog at Patent Baristas – Thursday, January 7, 2010

Behind the scenes at IP Think Tank podcasts – Wednesday, January 6, 2010

The 8 intellectual property enthusiasts to watch – Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Happy New Year! – Friday, January 1, 2010

Why no one is reading this post – Thursday, December 31, 2009

Its the silly season but this is ridiculous – Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Happy Christmas from all of us – Thursday, December 24, 2009

Free is good but is it best? – Tuesday, December 22, 2009

New force in Europe - EPLAW patent blog – Thursday, December 17, 2009

How many lawyers can one planet take? – Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Innovation games rock – Thursday, December 10, 2009

Don't protect your ideas - thoughts on Seth Godin's post – Monday, December 7, 2009

IP Valuation - keep it simple, focus instead on creating value – Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Forbidden City, global firm and thank you – Monday, November 23, 2009

The GPL and you. Dont be confused – Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Intellectual Property Nirvana – Thursday, October 8, 2009

Excavate fossils to make your reservation - is IP lost in translation? – Tuesday, October 6, 2009

What if the solution to global warming was known, patented and withheld? – Friday, October 2, 2009

Should we really care about definitions? – Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Intellectual property Consensus – Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Hold everything guys isn't IP already clearly understood and important? – Thursday, September 24, 2009

ABA's top legal blogs - don't forget to post your nominations – Monday, September 21, 2009

The biggest issue in IP management? – Tuesday, September 15, 2009

CIP Forum 2009 – Monday, September 7, 2009

All you need to know about Bilski in a 30 min podcast – Wednesday, August 19, 2009

The fearless CIPO – Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Release the tweets - IPBC09 and beyond – Thursday, August 6, 2009

23 client engagements 25 countries July 2009 insights from Duncan Bucknell Company – Saturday, August 1, 2009

BioPharma royalties European customs Utah and software - Thoughts on les Nouvelles Jun 09 – Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Blawg Review #222 – Sunday, July 26, 2009

CIPOs and Chief Aardvark Officers it's the role not the title, stupid... – Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Intellectual Ventures Microsoft GSK and Elephants - Thoughts on IAM Magazine Issue 36 Jul Aug 09 – Thursday, July 9, 2009

New Article - world's most popular free patent search engines – Wednesday, July 8, 2009

No brand protection - Twitters greatest challenge? – Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Doers and communicators first, CIPOs after that – Thursday, July 2, 2009

20 client engagements 35 countries June 2009 insights from Duncan Bucknell Company – Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Moving from 'patents kill' to sensible debate - new article at IP Think Tank – Friday, June 26, 2009

Let's be practical about communicating IP value – Thursday, June 25, 2009

Feeding the sharks or fuelling the economy? – Thursday, June 25, 2009

Forget patents and focus on communicating value – Tuesday, June 23, 2009

IP informatics resource that will astound – Thursday, June 18, 2009

Intellectual Property M and A opportunities – Thursday, June 4, 2009

An IP manifesto to remember - the role of the CIPO – Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Communicating IP to the world – Monday, June 1, 2009

Evolutionary IP Strategy – Friday, May 29, 2009

Vote 1 IP Think Tank? – Thursday, May 28, 2009

What exactly is IP Strategy, anyway? – Monday, May 25, 2009

The cheapest way to invalidate a patent – Tuesday, May 19, 2009

5 reasons not to file a trademark – Friday, May 15, 2009

Are Australian trademarks the best on the Internet? – Friday, May 15, 2009

Taylor Wessing's Global IP Index podcast interview tomorrow – Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Pharmaceutical manufacture for export - resources and update – Friday, May 1, 2009

Valuing patents - add your thoughts – Friday, May 1, 2009

Hot TV Guides, anyone? – Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Chint China and strategic implications – Monday, April 27, 2009

When is the right time to settle? – Thursday, April 23, 2009

Of Pirates, terrain and IP Strategy – Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The Pirate Bay decision in context. – Monday, April 20, 2009

Blockbusters and other strategies – Monday, April 13, 2009

Pharmaceutical manufacture for export - what do you think? – Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Access to medicines, patent fundamentals meet up with Vandana – Monday, April 6, 2009

Thanks for all the fun with the 3 blog April 1 Joke on G20 World IP Court – Thursday, April 2, 2009

Next podcast to analyse Tom Tom v Microsoft have your say – Thursday, April 2, 2009

G20 announces World IP Litigation Court – Tuesday, March 31, 2009

A good IP read for senior execs – Monday, March 30, 2009

Lobbying, intellectual property and superior courts – Tuesday, March 24, 2009

IP and the economic crisis - special edition podcast coming soon – Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Have your say on the Global IP Index – Monday, March 9, 2009

Pirate Bay - storm warning or safe harbour? – Friday, March 6, 2009

Certainty or fairness - what would you choose? – Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Heartfelt sympathies to victims of Australia's worst natural disaster Bushfires still raging – Sunday, February 8, 2009

Please tell us what you want in an IP podcast. – Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Has the fat lady finished singing at YouTube? – Monday, January 19, 2009

Drug controllers to analyse patents while patent controllers analyse efficacy – Thursday, January 15, 2009

Stay tuned for more top IP commentators as podcast guests – Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Digital music streaming obvious to EFF? – Monday, January 12, 2009

3 IP reflections for right now – Monday, January 5, 2009

Who cares about precedent? – Thursday, January 1, 2009

Happy New Year – Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Asian Bayh Dole's anyone? – Sunday, December 28, 2008

Seasons greetings from Duncan Bucknell Company – Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Less tactics and more strategy if you please – Monday, December 15, 2008

Sir Hugh Laddie - thanks so much – Monday, December 1, 2008

Announcing Global IP Events in IP Think Tank – Friday, November 28, 2008

Blawg Review #185 – Monday, November 10, 2008

Call for submissions - Blawg Review # 185 – Thursday, November 6, 2008

Exploding the Intangible Asset Market Cap myth – Monday, October 27, 2008

What can your competitors expect from you? – Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Cows, Pace and IP Strategy – Sunday, October 19, 2008

New Article - Hong Kong is not the same as China – Thursday, October 16, 2008

Trade mark marking strategy - R and TM disappearing? – Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Everyone has their own way of doing things – Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Australia's innovation review - an IP joke – Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Faster, Zyprexa and the Oberlandesgericht Dusseldorf – Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Organisational culture and IP strategy – Monday, September 15, 2008

New Article - China's national IP strategy 2008 – Thursday, September 11, 2008

Top 3 things leaders need to DO about IP Strategy – Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Software piracy - a strategic business approach – Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Intellectual Property Business Models – Wednesday, September 3, 2008

USPTO is doing ok on patent quality – Monday, September 1, 2008

Trade mark strategy - counterintuitive names – Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Top 3 things leaders need to know about IP – Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Audio file - IACCM global conference call – Saturday, August 2, 2008

New Article - IP Strategy, contracts and commercial relationship management – Wednesday, July 30, 2008

US patent strategy - choice of litigators – Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Current research - the art of war (II) – Monday, July 21, 2008

Patent arms race – Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Copyright strategy - protecting functionality? – Monday, July 14, 2008

No Chinese patents for inventions outside China? – Wednesday, July 9, 2008

The hidden value of hiding patents – Monday, July 7, 2008

IP and the war for talent – Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Inventive patent attorneys – Monday, June 30, 2008

Conference reflections - IP Business Congress 2008 (Amsterdam) – Thursday, June 26, 2008

Lower patentability standards - strategic responses – Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Amsterdam - IP Business Congress – Tuesday, June 24, 2008

New Article - 'Click time' – Sunday, June 22, 2008

Stop press - Pfizer and Ranbaxy Settle Lipitor dispute (mostly) Worldwide – Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Patent Sharks (Trolls?) - insightful or missing the point? – Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Patent expiriy dates - how hard can it be? – Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Is Lipitor driving Pfizer and Sankyo's Ranbaxy bidding? – Monday, June 16, 2008

Exhausted patents (II), Quanta v LG at the US Supreme Court – Monday, June 9, 2008

New Article - preventing and acting upon IP infringements in China – Thursday, June 5, 2008

US provisional patents & patent strategy - why wouldn't you – Wednesday, June 4, 2008

New Scorecard - DSS v European Central Bank – Monday, June 2, 2008

Paid keywords / sponsored links goes to ECJ – Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Why don't patent specifications state their expiry date? – Monday, May 26, 2008

Unappealing appeals in United States senior courts – Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Speaking engagements - IACCM 'ask the expert', 30-31 July 2008 – Monday, May 19, 2008

Derivative works, evergreening and copyright freedom to operate – Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Forum shopping? Try Taylor Wessing's Global IP Index – Thursday, May 8, 2008

Patent Quality - interview and article in IAM-Magazine – Monday, April 21, 2008

Blogger Appreciation Day – Thursday, April 17, 2008

Manufacturers becoming brand licensing companies – Monday, April 14, 2008

5 things to do when preparing to litigate IP – Tuesday, April 8, 2008

New company, new team, new website features – Monday, April 7, 2008

Brand Promise and IP Strategy – Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Speaking engagements - Generic Medicines - 20 May 2008 – Monday, March 17, 2008

Smart derivative trademarks – Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Speaking engagements - IP Business Congress 2008 - Amsterdam, 25 June 2008 – Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Eco-patent commons - what's going on? – Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Copyright 'evergreening' – Sunday, March 2, 2008

Recent trends in IP Strategy - an excerpt from London talk – Thursday, February 28, 2008

Business Methods - here we go again – Tuesday, February 26, 2008

29 Billion reasons to litigate? – Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Selling out - exiting a patent dispute by company sale – Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Grand (IP) Strategy – Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Audacity – Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Stretching IP rights into new areas - genius or misuse? – Monday, February 11, 2008

New Article - IP issues are business issues – Thursday, February 7, 2008

Top 5 things for a CIPO to focus on – Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Speed, cost & global consistency – Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Speaking engagements - London Solo IP Practitioners' Group - 14 Feb 08 – Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Speaking engagements - GenericsWeb Patent Academy - 6 Feb 08 – Thursday, January 24, 2008

Exhausted patent rights, the US Supreme Court, Quanta v LG – Thursday, January 17, 2008

Germany, Chinese copies and misdirected "strategy" – Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Last chance to patent your patent valuation method – Thursday, January 10, 2008

European patent troll boom? - I think not. – Wednesday, January 9, 2008

The indirect approach – Monday, January 7, 2008

Walls, Alexander the Great and Partha Bose – Thursday, January 3, 2008

Happy New Year – Tuesday, January 1, 2008

The biggest IP news in 2007 – Monday, December 31, 2007

Top 5 freedom to operate tips – Thursday, December 27, 2007

IP Think Tank - short break – Monday, December 24, 2007

Shaping the Terrain and IP Strategy – Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Green IP Strategy - risks and opportunities – Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Generic company's Detrol Polymorph Patent Highlights Ongoing Quality Issues in USPTO – Monday, December 17, 2007

Phishing damages your reputation and your brand - don't allow it – Monday, December 10, 2007

You can (almost) always get a granted patent - but what's it really worth – Wednesday, December 5, 2007

New Article - It's getting hotter - Climate Change & IP Strategy – Tuesday, December 4, 2007

ASEAN Regional Patent Office? – Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Copyright and trade mark trolls? – Monday, November 26, 2007

Indian patent transparency and accountability – Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Global IP Strategy & national differences – Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Technology & IP Strategy - Block, Run, Team-Up or all 3? – Wednesday, November 14, 2007

MTV & Rambus - get your positioning right when aggressively asserting IP – Monday, November 12, 2007

IP Think Tank Top Fives – Thursday, November 8, 2007

On a Different Topic – Thank You! – Tuesday, November 6, 2007

The economic value of patent 'trolls' – Monday, November 5, 2007

The unanswered question in Intellectial Property – Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Monetizing IP the (new) IBM way – Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Monsanto's costly patent strategy mistake – Monday, October 29, 2007

Global IP Strategy - can you keep up? – Thursday, October 25, 2007

Global IP Scorecards - popular 'table view' returns – Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Pharmaceutical Lifecycle Management & IP acquisitions – Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Generic exclusivity extended? - Teva sues 16th generic over Carvedilol – Thursday, October 18, 2007

Let the debate continue - value for money in global patent litigation – Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Global branding strategy - can you customise for each country? – Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Getting better all the time - with your help – Monday, October 15, 2007

China Labour Law and IP management – Friday, October 12, 2007

Japanese patent litigation - fast and revocatious – Wednesday, October 10, 2007

A new era for intellectual property securities? – Monday, October 8, 2007

IP Strategy, banks and finance – Friday, October 5, 2007

Who 'does' wins - common sense is not enough – Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Ready, Fire, Aim - does this work for IP Strategy – Monday, October 1, 2007

Excellent (IP) Strategy is knowing what not to do – Friday, September 28, 2007

Mass customisation and IP creation – Wednesday, September 26, 2007

IP bounty hunters? - using social networks to invalidate IP rights – Monday, September 24, 2007

She's left the company - is that her IP or ours? – Friday, September 21, 2007

Kenya pauses, then swims with the (compulsory license) tide – Wednesday, September 19, 2007

New Article - Pharmaceutical & Biotech Lifecycle Management (II) - non-innovator patents – Sunday, September 16, 2007

Russian & global trade marks - to transliterate or not? – Friday, September 14, 2007

Spicy IP Strategy – Wednesday, September 12, 2007

What do KSR and Novartis' Indian Glivec troubles have in common? – Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Will sense prevail? - Scarlet's Belgian appeal – Tuesday, September 11, 2007

The myth of globalisation - what then for global IP strategy? – Monday, September 10, 2007

Chinese JVs - what not to do – Friday, September 7, 2007

European patent costs take a dive - France to sign London Agreement – Thursday, September 6, 2007

Auctioning IP - use as a licensing forum? – Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Thanks so much - July & August '07 coversations on IP ThinkTank – Monday, September 3, 2007

Stop them at the border! USITC proceedings on the rise in light of eBay – Friday, August 31, 2007

Is obfuscation the best route to the UK Court of Appeal? – Monday, August 27, 2007

Making life easier for you – Friday, August 24, 2007

Within 24 hrs USPTO sued over new Continuation Rules – Thursday, August 23, 2007

New Scorecard - Compulsory Licenses around the globe – Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Watering down willful infringement in the US - In Re Seagate – Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Lifecycle Management at risk? Will Asian countries follow India's 3(d) lead? – Monday, August 20, 2007

Thumb screws from the USPTO - strategic implications – Friday, August 17, 2007

US / China TRIPS case goes to WTO panel - what about India? – Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Article awards - popularity on Mondaq – Tuesday, August 14, 2007

India, TRIPS, pharmaceuticals and patents – Monday, August 13, 2007

Big Blue proposes new type of patent right - the EIP – Friday, August 10, 2007

ISPs beware in Belgium - court ordered ISP to install filtering software – Wednesday, August 8, 2007

New Article - Novartis' glivec battle with India - patentability of pharmaceutical extension patents – Monday, August 6, 2007

New Article - Australia even more patent-friendly after High Court decision – Sunday, August 5, 2007

Patent litigation in India - uncommon and in need of reform? – Friday, August 3, 2007

PubPat - the public interest patent challenger – Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Top Global Brands 2007 – Monday, July 30, 2007

Participatory media & IP - great podcast – Friday, July 27, 2007

What to do in the US if you don't have standing to sue for revocation - more on Benitec v Nucleonics – Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Do we have enough controversy? - Declaratory Judgments in the US – Monday, July 23, 2007

Are patents worth it? The NY Times article furore. – Friday, July 20, 2007

US Patent Reform moves on, and on, and on... – Wednesday, July 18, 2007

What's really going on? Information and the art of war. – Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Second life, second chance, second thoughts on IP Strategy in the virtual world – Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Lifecycle Management - pharma specific? – Thursday, July 5, 2007

Sense prevails in EPO Divisionals practice – Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Hey, that's my mark! - use of another's TM as a paid keyword – Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Harry Potter & Cohort Branding Strategy – Sunday, July 1, 2007

Blue Storm rains on Pepsi's China party – Friday, June 29, 2007

Viacom & Google - what's really going on? – Tuesday, June 26, 2007

IP Think Tank - a global & strategic blog, not a blawg – Thursday, June 21, 2007