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		<title>Patent Assignment: Distinguishing Trolls from Legitimate Assignees, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Gornall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague, Ben Gornall, Patent and Trademark Consultant, has continued our earlier discussion.  My initial post was &#8220;IP Litigation as a(n Illegal) Business Model&#8220;, to which Ben commented here.  I replied with &#8220;Patent Assignment: Trolling the Gap between Potential and &#8230; <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/patent-assignment-distinguishing-trolls-from-legitimate-assignees-part-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Patent Assignment: Distinguishing Trolls from Legitimate Assignees, Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Gornall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague, Ben Gornall, Patent and Trademark Consultant, has continued our earlier discussion.  My initial post was &#8220;IP Litigation as a(n Illegal) Business Model&#8220;, to which Ben commented here.  I replied with &#8220;Patent Assignment: Trolling the Gap between Potential and &#8230; <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/patent-assignment-distinguishing-trolls-from-legitimate-assignees-part-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Patent Assignment:  Trolling the Gap between Potential and Actual Usefulness</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/patent-assignment-trolling-the-gap-between-potential-and-actual-usefulness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 23:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many of the would-be defendants simply negotiate the licence - not a one-time settlement but an ongoing licence (perhaps under duress?) - to avoid the more costly lawsuit, even though they have no intention of using the patented matter any further?
Here we come to the difference between potential usefulness, which speculation underlies the granting of the patent, and actual usefulness, evidence of which underlies the infringement lawsuit. <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/patent-assignment-trolling-the-gap-between-potential-and-actual-usefulness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>IP Litigation as a(n Illegal) Business Model</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/ip-litigation-as-an-illegal-business-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The difference between a law firm that makes its money by suing on behalf of it clients and a patent trolling business is this:  A law firm is an association of professionals who represent injured parties; a patent troll acquires the right to injury and injury damages without having been injured. <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/ip-litigation-as-an-illegal-business-model/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Music for a Pound, or a Pound of Flesh?</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/music-for-a-pound-or-a-pound-of-flesh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Music not shared is music not heard, and a band not shared basks only in obscurity.  Gene Simmons regrets not having been more vigilant in his marshaling of the RIAA cavalry back in 2007.  A fundamental question is how to monetize an industrialized art form without creating an artificial scarcity that undermines the cultural popularity on which that art form is dependent.  Ars Technica has an article this week highlighting the competing views on how to monetize music in the absence of natural scarcity. <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/music-for-a-pound-or-a-pound-of-flesh/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bill C-32: The Latest Attempt to Amend the Copyright Act</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/bill-c-32-copyright-amendment/</link>
		<comments>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/bill-c-32-copyright-amendment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 05:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Information Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a new copyright bill that was tabled yesterday in Parliament.  It’s been in the papers, online news sources, etc.  It can be found at http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=4580265&#38;Language=e&#38;Mode=1 Activities that are commonplace and have been legal in the U.S. for about 3 &#8230; <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/bill-c-32-copyright-amendment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Library Manifesto</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/library-manifesto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanities]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/?p=266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[the risk of common cultural property becoming the puppet, through digital means, of copyright holders rather than the protectorate of library gatekeepers <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/library-manifesto/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Stallman came to Vancouver, and I upset him</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/richard-stallman-came-to-vancouver-and-i-upset-him/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Stallman was in Vancouver two weeks ago.  He performed, if I may describe his lectures like that, three times; I caught the first.  I asked Stallman a question after it was over, and thoroughly annoyed him.  I know that I annoyed him because he grew flustered, stamped his feet, turned away from me to the rest of the crowd and yelled at me. <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/richard-stallman-came-to-vancouver-and-i-upset-him/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What would you call open-source marketing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instead of tightening your grip on intellectual property (mostly trade-mark with a healthy dose of copyright and some neighbouring rights) and then hoping for royalties, the group doing the marketing attempts to engineer a type of personality cult for the brand. ...  What I'm talking about is tying differences (real or created) to cultural phenomena, and then grabbing hold of those phenomena and driving from that end; the product becomes a tag-along to those cultural memes. <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/what-would-you-call-open-source-marketing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>EU suggests reason and logic behind ACTA</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/eu-suggests-reason-and-logic-behind-acta/</link>
		<comments>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/eu-suggests-reason-and-logic-behind-acta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the EU, ACTA will ignore "infringing goods [that] are not part of large scale traffic."  ACTA will also not force already taxed enforcement officers "to look for a couple of pirated songs on an i-Pod music player..." <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/eu-suggests-reason-and-logic-behind-acta/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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