Category «Intellectual Property»

WIPO Launches New Database to Profile IP Case Studies

News release: “WIPO has launched IP Advantage, a new database which profiles the intellectual property (IP) experiences of inventors, creators, entrepreneurs, and researchers. This tool aims to promote a better understanding of how IP is created and protected, and how inventors, creators and society at large benefit from the IP system. The IP Advantage database …

Subjects: E-Government, Intellectual Property, Legal Research

USPTO Launches Data Visualization Center

“Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) launched a beta version of the USPTO Data Visualization Center. This tool will give the public access to important data covering USPTO patent operations in a convenient dashboard format. The patents dashboard provides more refined pendency information than was previously available, as well as other critical indicators …

Subjects: E-Government, Intellectual Property, Legal Research

Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works

Statement of the Librarian of Congress on the Anticircumvention Rulemaking, July 26, 2010 Determination of the Librarian of Congress and Text of the Regulation (to be published in Federal Register Tuesday, July 27, 2010 The Recommendation of the Register of Copyrights: “The Librarian of Congress has announced the classes of works subject to the exemption …

Subjects: Copyright, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Internet Archive's Launches Digital Lending Library

“Checking out digital versions of books that are automatically returned after two weeks is as easy as logging onto the Internet Archive’s Open Library site, announced digital librarian and Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle. By integrating this new service, more than seventy thousand current books – best sellers and popular titles – are borrowable by …

Subjects: Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

White House Releases 2010 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement

2010 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement (June 2010): “Enforcement of intellectual property rights is a critical and efficient tool we can use, as a government, to strengthen the economy, support jobs and promote exports. Intellectual property supports jobs across all industries, and in particular where there is a high degree of creativity, research …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Legal Research

International Trade Commission Launches Tariff Infringement Investigation of Apple

News release: The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has voted to institute an investigation of certain portable electronic devices and related software. The products at issue in this investigation are portable electronic devices that utilize certain power management methods and may incorporate hardware and software for telephone directories within mobile telephone systems. The investigation is …

Subjects: Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Legal Research, Patent and Trademark

New GAO Reports: IP and Pirated Goods, USPS, Federal Desktop Core Configuration Requirements

Intellectual Property: Observations on Efforts to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods, GAO-10-423, April 12, 2010 U.S. Postal Service: Strategies and Options to Facilitate Progress toward Financial Viability, GAO-10-455, April 12, 2010 Information Security: Agencies Need to Implement Federal Desktop Core Configuration Requirements, GAO-10-202, March 12, 2010 Information Security: Concerted Effort Needed …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, PC Security

Challenges for Preserving Born Digital Materials

New York Times: “Electronically produced drafts, correspondence and editorial comments, sweated over by contemporary poets, novelists and nonfiction authors, are ultimately just a series of digits — 0’s and 1’s — written on floppy disks, CDs and hard drives, all of which degrade much faster than old-fashioned acid-free paper. Even if those storage media do …

Subjects: Intellectual Property, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Google Announces "A new approach to China"

Official Google Blog: “In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident–albeit a significant one–was something quite different…We launched Google.cn in …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Intellectual Property, Search Engines

FTC Challenges Intel's Dominance of Worldwide Microprocessor Markets

News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today sued Intel Corp., the world’s leading computer chip maker, charging that the company has illegally used its dominant market position for a decade to stifle competition and strengthen its monopoly.In its complaint, the FTC alleges that Intel has waged a systematic campaign to shut out rivals’ competing microchips …

Subjects: Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Legal Research

New GAO Reports: TARP Audit, Intellectual Property Enforcement Efforts, Surface Coal Mining, Drug Safety

Financial Audit: Office of Financial Stability (Troubled Asset Relief Program) Fiscal Year 2009 Financial Statements, GAO-10-301, December 09, 2009 Intellectual Property: Enhancements to Coordinating U.S. Enforcement Efforts, GAO-10-219T, December 09, 2009 International Trade: Observations on U.S. and Foreign Countries’ Export Promotion Activities, GAO-10-310T, December 09, 2009 State Department: Challenges Facing the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, …

Subjects: Government Documents, Intellectual Property

Study Says Employers Increasingly Monitoring Outbound Emails

National Law Journal: “The economy has employers extra jittery about company secrets getting out, so nervous that they’re hiring staff just to monitor outbound e-mails. That’s the conclusion of a recent study by Proofpoint, an Internet security and data loss prevention company, which found that 38 percent of large U.S. employers are monitoring outbound e-mail …

Subjects: E-Mail, Intellectual Property, PC Security, Privacy