Weekly Roundup of IP News - Week of August 12th - 18th

post Thursday August 22, 2013

Obama's intellectual property chief steps down:

The White House's intellectual property chief, Victoria Espinel, has stepped down from her role in the administration and is rumored to be one of the top candidates to lead BSA | The Software Alliance, according to industry sources.

Intellectual Property- What is Knowledge Worth?:

The BBC in the UK published an interesting article last week.  The security industry has been beating the drum very loudly about the value of corporate assets vs. value of custodial data and we were right!

Marina Biotech Monetizes UNA Intellectual Property Estate Through Agreement With Arcturus Therapeutics:

Marina Biotech, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: MRNA), a leading nucleic acid-based drug discovery and development company, today announced that the Company has assigned its Unlocked Nucleobase Analog (UNA) technology to Arcturus Therapeutics, Inc. Under terms of the Agreement, Marina Biotech will retain a non-exclusive license to the technology which will permit it to continue to provide the broadest nucleic acid drug discovery capability in the industry. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Five Intellectual Property 'landmines' entrepreneurs should avoid:

Turning an idea into a business requires significant focus, time, and energy. Because intellectual property (IP) could one day become your startup’s most valuable asset, you cannot afford to ignore it—even if you are “too busy” or underfunded. Think of protecting your startup’s IP as investing in its future.

Policy tackles intellectual property rights on web:

For the first time in South Africa, artists will be able to enforce copyright over their creative work on the internet — in line with the draft national policy on intellectual property that has been adopted by the Cabinet.
 

Articles from IPR Plaza this period:

Indian Conference on IP Strategy:

A new program has taken place in the Indian city of Kanpur that will boost the protection of intellectual property for businesses. The Micro Small and Medium Enterprises- Development Institute of Kanpur, the Ministry of MSME and the Government of India in association with Merchants Chamber of Uttar Pradesh held a meeting of a wide variety of businesses to cultivate...

Patent Trolls:

Amidst the continued activity of so called patent trolls, a recent United States Court of Appeals decision could signal a change in how the U.S. judicial system rules in cases over patent infringement. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a prior decision made by a U.S. federal court located in the state of Texas.

US Supreme Court Rules on Human Genome:

The complex nature of patents and what is actually able to be patented has been a long running debate and will likely continue for the foreseeable future. The United States Supreme Court recently ruled on a long standing question regarding the possibility of patenting portions of the human genome and DNA.

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