While there is much talk about promoting innovation and supporting innovators and entrepreneurs; there is an undercurrent of debate ranging from scrapping the current system for protecting creations of the mind; i.e., the intellectual property rights system, to keeping the status quo, warts and all. How can influential networks such as the Paris-based “Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society” or the London-based “Global Women Inventor and Innovators Network” promote entrepreneurs, innovators and knowledge workers while at the same time respond to growing societal demands?

The company alleges that the law firm failed to investigate and discover prior art and misconduct related to the patent that was the focus of a lawsuit.

IncreMental Advantage is hosting the above titled conference in New York City on October 15, 2008. Philip Brooks has the topics of discussion at the link above.

As managing director of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Hsiao-Wuen Hon leads a 10-year-old organization that is the software giant's flagship research arm in the region, responsible for some 350 researchers and engineers. Hon said that managing innovation in the Beijing-based facility is different from running an organization with set goals, because often the magic "spark" is stumbled upon accidentally.

In its August 18 issue, BusinessWeek shows how companies are testing out innovative technologies at the Olympic Games in Beijing.

Last week’s Olympic Blawg Review focused on the medals. Building on that, this week David Donoghue at the Chicago IP Litigation Blog uses the elements of a world-record swim to feature some interesting discussions in the legal blogosphere.

Click on the link above to see this week's selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and on the internet.

Marriott tells the reporter that Bill Marriott's CEO blog is responsible for $4 million in bookings on the main site. "That's not a huge amount given Marriott's sales, which are in the billions. But not bad for a little spare change from blogging," says Debbie Weil at BlogWrite for CEOs. Watch the video at the link above.

"Registering your trademark in China does not constitute registering your trademark in either Hong Kong or Macau, and vice-versa," notes Dan Harris at China Law Blog.