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IP Review Issue 18

August 2007

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IP Conversation:

  • The business of IP: Marshall Phelps
    Marshall Phelps, Microsoft's corporate vice-president and deputy general counsel, IP, outlines the company's forward-thinking approach to IP strategy
     
  • Life on easy street
    Managing director Anthony Robb-John reveals the IP that protects the easyGroup brands

 

 

Features:

  • IP in the boardroom
    How Apple Computer, IBM, Eli Lilly and Company and Time Warner integrate IP with business management
     
  • First impressions of Second Life
    Martin Schwimmer reveals what the rise of virtual reality websites means for your IP rights
     
  • Making space for the net
    Nigel Clarke, project manager of esp@cenet, explains what the European Patent Office is doing to help businesses better manage their patent applications

 

 

 

Trademark Focus:

  • Stepping up the fight
    How can you protect your products from counterfeiters? BASCAP's Guy Sebban outlines the options
     
  • Trademark dilution: does Europe lag behind?
    Six months after the US overhauled its trademark dilution practices, Ilanah Simon asks whether the EU should be following suit
     
  • A new dot for Asia
    CPA's Peter Whiley explains what the new gTLD means for the Asian region
     
  • Regard your good name
    Protecting a brand isn't just about registering the right trademark. There's an entire industry working behind the scenes, says TMDS's Philippa Edward

 

 

 

CPA Insight:

  • United for technology
    Gisela Carlson explains why UTC uses FoundationIP to manage the workload of its global business units
       

 


Regulars:
  • Letters
    Your thoughts and feedback
     
  • Opinion
    ACT's Jonathan Zuck on the EC's patent proposal
     
  • Global news
    A round-up of the latest IP developments