Where does IP stand in the corporate boardroom? Do corporate leaders fully understand or care about intellectual property? That the Chief Intellectual Property Officer (CIPO) is now an emerging senior role within corporations signals a growing recognition of IP’s importance to business success.

Somebody had to invent podcasting, right? Click on the link in the headline above to find out who now owns the “US patent for podcasting.”

Now that its acquisition of Nortel’s CDMA and LTE assets on Tuesday passed court approval in the United States and Canada, Ericsson’s stake in Canada will more than double – if the Canadian government doesn’t intervene... Ericsson’s stake in Canada has been fruitful: Its 1,900 Canadian employees have contributed 330 patents to Ericsson’s patent portfolio since 1986.

The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary conducted a nomination hearing on July 29, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:14 a.m. for David J. Kappos to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Highlights of the hearing are summarized by Brian Fletcher at his Patentability blog, linked in the headline above.

Archives are the foundation of historical research. Without access to primary material—be it documents, photographs, financial statements, engineering or test reports—historians lack the building blocks necessary to write the chronicles that inform our understanding of the past and illuminate the future.

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Duncan Bucknell's IP Think Tank, a global intellectual property law blog, hosts Blawg Review #222, a carnival ride down under. Click on the link above for more than the usual weekly global review of intellectual property news and opinion on IP Think Tank, from Melbourne, Australia.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum are presenting a special exhibit featuring material from Michael Jackson’s patent and trademark applications.

Dr. Mark Webbink, Executive Director of the Peer-to-Patent program, spoke more about how it worked and lessons learned on Friday's Daily Debrief.

Twitter reached out to the business community this past week with a Twitter 101 for businesses at business.twitter.com of all places. It's an excellent resource for lawyers and law firms. Kevin O'Keefe, CEO of LexBlog, whose firm helped us @ipdotcom incorporate Twitter into our company blog, Securing Innovation, has a brief overview for businesses. Click on the link in the headline above.

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Kent Displays Reflex LCD Electronic Skins may be the perfect partner to your fickle ways, changing colors on demand to suit your every mood and/or outfit. [via Engadget, which has video of this innovative technology at the link in the headline above]

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We live in an era in which green innovation reigns -- and, at times, rains, even pours, from companies, universities, and research labs. A wide range of disciplines, from biotech and nanotech to cleantech and infotech, are enabling the design and manufacture of things that are lighter, simpler, cheaper, smarter, less wasteful, less toxic, and less resource-intense.

With HP, Nokia and Sony, a total of 14 companies have now joined the RPX Defensive Patent Aggregation Service since its introduction last November.

Walter Olson at Overlawyered, at 10 years running the oldest blog about law, hosts this week's Blawg Review including a whole section about Intellectual Property Law with links to the Legal Pad,  Dennis Crouch at Patently-O, Gary Odom at Patent Prospector, Ron Coleman at Likelihood of Confusion, and Joe Mullin at The Prior Art.

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Despite recent White House recognition as an innovative effort, the highly hyped Peer-to-Patent collaborative patent review program was suspended last month. The United States Patent and Trade Office and New York Law School's Center for Patent Innovation decided to put the project on hiatus after its two-year pilot in order to evaluate its effectiveness.

Joe Mullin writes on The Prior Art blog, "Good, founded by Ben Goldhirsh to be a magazine for people who 'give a damn,' missed a great opportunity to address the ethical quandaries at the heart of large-scale patent assertion. While I write for a primarily a legal and business audience, I think that the kind of people who read Good would want to know how widespread patent lawsuits affect them—as consumers and as citizens. It’s an important issue, given that the purpose for patents under U.S. law is to 'promote the progress' of science."

"If we can do something, anything, that even in a small way, helps make companies and individuals less afraid, and more willing to be CREATIVE, more willing to embrace the CREATIVITY that they already have, that's a good thing. Because economically and spiritually, that is ultimately where our future lies, even if that idea sometimes terrifies us." -- Hugh MacLeod @gapingvoid on Twitter and gapingvoid.com on the web.

An impassioned, darkly amusing look at how corporations misuse copyright and trademark law to stifle creativity and free speech.

New York State should invest $20 million to $35 million annually to spin out university-based research into start-up companies, according to a study produced by Excell Partners, Inc., a state-supported seed fund partnership with the University of Rochester. The study, “Venture Capital and Seed Activity in New York State,” notes that New York is second only to California in the amount of federal research funds flowing to its universities but ranks 25th in state capital for start-ups.

Great names are a powerful force in the branding, marketing and advertising campaigns of the companies they work for. They differentiate you from competitors, make an emotional connection with your audience, and help to build a brand that ignites the passions of your customers. Find out how innovative companies come up with names for their inventions and new products. The Igor Naming Guide to Creating Product and Company Names is available in two different lengths: soul-crushing (115 pages) and moderately-irritating (26 pages) and is available for you to download free, without registration, at the link above. That's right, no pesky subscription process, just good information, absolutely free.

Intellectual property management within the context of public research organisations is as much about ensuring access and it is about protecting rights.

In response to the economic crisis, companies have downsized, resulting in some terminated employees stealing vital data to improve their job opportunities with a new employer.

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The decline of Nortel, which began with the bursting of the global technology bubble in 2000, coincides with a worrying widening of the productivity gap between Canada and the United States, a dangerous drop in business spending on research and development here, and the country's increasing dependence on natural resources to fuel economic growth.

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The American Conference Institute’s Maximizing Pharmaceutical Patent Lifecycles, the 10th Anniversary Edition will be held at the Helmsley Park Lane Hotel, New York, New York, on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 to Thursday, October 8, 2009. Click the link above for a special referral deal from Patent Baristas.

News of Monday's record-setting $1.67 billion patent verdict against Abbott Labs had patent lawyers slack-jawed across the country.