CPA Global Patent Monetisation Expert Named as one of World’s Top Intellectual Property Strategists

September 22nd, 2009 WILMINGTON, Massachusetts - NeuroTherm is pleased to be recognized by the United States Patent Office as the first company worldwide to develop and release a multiple output radiofrequency generator used in the treatment of chronic pain, ref. US Patent No.

September 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Today, in the United States Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, in Washington D.C., a panel of three judges heard the appeal of i4i v. Microsoft. This was an appeal from the August 11, 2009 Final Judgment that ruled in favor of i4i and found that Microsoft had willfully infringed i4i's U.S.

September 6th, 2009 ALEXANDRIA, Virginia - SISVEL today announced its decision to respond to the Request for Information (RFI) that the Board of the NGMN (Next Generation Mobile Networks) Alliance issued on August 17, 2009 to facilitate the selection of an LTE (Long Term Evolution) patent pool administrator by parties owning patents essential to the LTE standard. In May, SISVEL issued a call for patents and patent applications essential to the LTE standard, in an effort to support the creation of a joint licensing program to make LTE technology accessible to all users on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms and conditions.

August 3rd, 2009 ST GEORGEN, Germany - Economic experts expect up to 35,000 business failures in Germany in 2009. Intangible assets such as patents are not sufficiently taken into account by many banks when making lending decisions.

July 19th, 2009 PLEASANTON, California - - New Intellectual Property Covers New Location Based Access Control, Identity-Based Networking The United States Patent Office has awarded Trapeze Networks (NYSE: BDC) two more breakthrough wireless networking patents. The patents advance the company's position in wireless network security and role-based access control.

June 15th, 2009 PORTON DOWN, England - Enigma Diagnostics Limited, the decentralised and point-of-care molecular diagnostics company, announced today it was issued European Patent EP1044283, which covers the use of endonuclease-based reporting in PCR and other nucleic acid amplification technologies. Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) had filed a claim in opposition to this patent which was rejected by the European Patent Office at a proceeding in Munich on May 28.

May 18th, 2009 ALEXANDRIA, Virginia - Patent Resources Group (PRG), the nation's leading patent educator, has launched a Video on Demand program that allows legal and business professionals to access patent courses and earn continuing legal education (CLE) or continuing professional development (CPD) credits online. (Logo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090413/PRGLOGO ) Video on Demand customers can take PRG's high-quality patent education courses at their own pace from any computer with Internet access, while eliminating the travel and hotel expenses associated with attending a classroom course.

May 5th, 2009 HOUSTON and BARCELONA, Spain - On Tuesday, May 5, 2009, Fractus S.A. of Barcelona, Spain sued cell phone manufacturers Samsung, LG, RIM, Pantech, Kyocera, Palm, HTC, Sharp, UTStarcom, and Sanyo for infringing nine different patents held by Fractus.

April 21st, 2009 ALEXANDRIA, Virginia - Intellogist Evaluates Search Tools and Shares Best Practices Landon IP, Inc., the global leader in professional patent searching and analysis, has launched Intellogist, a free online tool that provides the intellectual property (IP) community with a revolutionary resource for finding objective information about patent searching tools and sharing best practices. (Logo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090413/LANDONLOGO ) Available today at www.intellogist.com, this website provides many resources for information scientists at companies and law firms, including: -- Objective assessments of over 30 patent and non-patent search and analytics systems -- Side-by-side comparisons of key features of patent search systems -- Community-based best practices articles on patent searching tools and techniques -- Tool for identifying and linking to prior art resources by technical discipline -- Maps for finding patent search system coverage by country or viewing geographic coverage provided by each patent search system -- Tables showing data coverage provided by each system -- Discussion Forum for posting and answering search-related questions Intellogist's capabilities will be invaluable to anyone involved in patent searching, whether they are identifying a system to use for a specific search or deciding what systems to purchase for their firm or company.

March 15th, 2009 PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania and DUBLIN, Ireland - Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY) announces that it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York against Barr Laboratories, Inc.

May 21st, 2009 LONDON - Global technology provider, Serverside Group, announced that the Indian Patent Office has granted a patent directed to its core card customization architecture, thus establishing an international trend. Since the Indian filing was part of an international strategy, the grant of the Indian patent, which follows the grant of a European Patent, not only enhances Serverside's competitive position in India but indicates the likely outcome in other territories yet to come to grant.

April 7th, 2009 MUMBAI - Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Duvvuri Subbarao has said that there was a long-term cost to monetising the budget deficit that needed to be considered despite the apparent short-term benefits of not tapping the market for funding. Subbarao said that government borrowing in the 2009-10 fiscal year would be significantly higher than in the previous year.

September 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Successful entrepreneurs turn big ideas into business opportunities, but how should they protect those ideas? A new paper offers a how-to guide on intellectual property protection, laying out the options for budding entrepreneurs as they consider how to move forward. This article lays out the pros and cons of various intellectual-property protections, says Stephen Schanz, associate professor of management, innovation and entrepreneurship at North Carolina State University (NCSU) and study co-author.

April 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian companies should increase spending on research and development (R&D) and focus more on patents to protect their technologies, industry experts said here Thursday. 'Copying is stealing.

July 8th, 2009 Judge closes door on legal quirk in patent lawALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge has turned away a first-of-its-kind lawsuit filed by an attorney seeking to exploit a quirk in federal patent law that had been dormant for more than a century.

June 12th, 2009 Judge tosses patent claim against NintendoREDMOND, Wash. — A judge has dismissed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Nintendo over the company's Wii video game machine.

April 17th, 2009 PUNE - A local organisation in Pune has succeeded in securing intellectual property rights for the 'Puneri Pagadi' or traditional Marathi turban. Pune based organisation 'Shree Puneri Pagadi Sangha' had submitted an application before the Geographical Indication Registry seeking GI (geographical indication) tag and geographical exclusivity for the turban.

May 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US has placed India, China and 10 others on its Priority Watch List of trading partners that do not provide an adequate level of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection or enforcement. Besides India and China, Russia, Algeria, Argentina, Canada, Chile, Indonesia, Israel, Pakistan, Thailand, and Venezuela have been placed on the Priority Watch List and 'will be the subject of particularly intense engagement through bilateral discussion during the coming year'.

June 1st, 2009 Court to decide whether to limit patentsWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has decided to take on an appeal that could decide whether someone can get a patent for a complex business idea. The high court on Monday decided to hear an appeal from Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw, who attempted to patent a method for managing weather-related risk having to do with trading in commodities.

April 21st, 2009 China: success in Olympic anti-piracy campaignBEIJING — China, the world's biggest source of illegally copied goods, claimed success Tuesday in fighting the piracy of Olympic products, restricting illegal broadcasts and cracking more than 2,000 cases of illegal use of the Olympics trademark. Big cities in China are awash in fake goods, but officials said they made special effort to prevent unlicensed use of Olympics-related logos and other property ahead of the Beijing Summer Games last August.