New Nato Alliance? Problem Ahead - Non Necessarily!

New NATO alliance?

The Financial Times has exactly informed the IPKat that the U.S. too the European Union volition pledge tomorrow to accept articulation activeness to stalk the world’s swelling tide of mistaken goods. Following a tenfold ascent inwards merchandise inwards counterfeits inwards the past times vi years, the European Union too the U.S. of A. suggest to part tidings too to coordinate policy at international bodies such equally the World Intellectual Property Organisation, aiming commencement at Russian Federation too China, so at Latin America too the Middle East.

EU authorities are reported to conduct keep seized to a greater extent than than 103 1000000 items of counterfeit goods inwards 2004, upwards from exactly 10 1000000 inwards 1998. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 European official adds:

“The lion’s part were heading for the to the lowest degree developed countries inwards the world. This is non exactly a rich-country problem. And what nosotros seize is exactly the tip of the iceberg”.

In 1997 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation too Development estimated that counterfeits accounted for v to seven per cent of Blue Planet trade. They toll global concern to a greater extent than than €250bn ($316bn, £171bn) too threaten 200,000 jobs inwards Europe, according to the International Chamber of Commerce.

notes that it's the one-time NATO partners ganging upwards against the Eastern threat again. Wouldn't it move nice, though, if nosotros were all on the same side? After all, mistaken medicines too brake-pads volition price the Chinese too the Russians equally much equally they price us - too which governments, East or West, create goodness from trading that doesn't exhibit upwards inwards the official books, if it can't move taxed or controlled? Merpel wonders if the big dealers inwards counterfeits inwards the East are the equivalent of War Lords, amongst their feifdoms too the coin to purchase the loyal back upwards of their followers.


Trouble ahead - non necessarily!

There May move Trouble Ahead is the alarming championship of a cute picayune mass past times Lex van Wijk, subtitled "a practical guide to effective patent property management". The writer (right), a patent attorney who has worked at Royal Dutch Shell, at Burmah Castrol equally grouping patent manager,and at Siemens AG, at nowadays plant at Vereenigde, where he advises clients on intellectual holding matters.

What the publisher says:

"Patent assets are currently of import strategic concern tools. Their presence or absence tin post away brand or suspension technology-based companies. Patent property management has thence move a nub responsibleness inside companies. This mass discusses inwards a lucid agency the elements that postulate to move covered to ensure that patent assets are used to their amount potential. It provides uncomplicated too practical management tools to realize alignment of patent, business, too inquiry & evolution strategies. Additionally, this mass volition assistance managers empathize why whatever conclusion regarding patent assets needs to move an informed concern decision, too how these assets tin post away contribute to the company's hereafter success, if non survival".

What the IPKat says:

"As the writer says inwards his Preface, these are awkward times for in-house patent professionals. They are fifty-fifty harder now, amongst the outbreak of "trollism" inwards the U.S. raising questions that CEOs aim at blameless patent staff along the lines of either 'what tin post away nosotros create virtually these patent trolls?' or 'why can't nosotros move trolls too?'. This mass won't brand things easier for the patent pro, but it volition give him a improve sentiment of which problems he tin post away bargain amongst too which he should duck or top on to individual else. The principal employment facing in-house patent pros is that they are oftentimes expected to move omniscient polymaths, coping amongst economic, legal too strategic issues spell exercising management skills. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 minute employment is that much of the data that whatever in-house patent pro needs inwards guild to dispense skillful advice is exactly non available to him - or non easily accessible - at the fourth dimension he most needs it. This mass volition at nowadays him to the data he most keenly needs when steering his company's patent assets clear of the many obstacles (self-induced too otherwise) that must move negotiated on the path from expenditure to profit".

Bibliographic details. Published past times Scarecrow Press, Inc (Lanham, Maryland; Toronto; Oxford, 2005). Paperback, xvi + 120 pages. Rupture cistron - non-existent.