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Two New Blogs I'm Reading on Global IP

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Well, these blogs aren't new, but they're new to me.

First, I am enjoying Spicy IP, a blog written by 9 contributers (including Duncan Bucknell, the clear non-Indian of the bunch but a well-known IP blogger). Spicy IP's goal is to "increase transparency in Indian intellectual property policy/institutions." The contributors have now posted over 350 posts on Indian IP issues. According to this post, India has had about 80 or so patent cases so far -- in its history. There were that many in the first ten days of 2008 in the US. But it's fair to say that Indian patent litigation is something that might be on our minds less than a decade from now. So no time like the present to start to learn the issues.

Second, Intellectual Asset Management Magazine (IAM) has a blog, which doesn't appear to have any name - perhaps the IAM Magazine Blog? Joff Wild, the London-based editor, comments mainly on European patent issues like the Nokia-IP-Com case, but on other issues as well. While I'd like to see IAM put up some links on the side of its page to some of the blogs it cites (it is more like a magazine than a blog right now), it's a very interesting and timely read. For example, this recent post surmises that a proposed new pan-European patent court will adopt injunction rules that will be very bad for trolls.

Other interesting blogs are on the right side of my page. I'm sure I'm forgetting some others. Although I don't agree with IP attorney Brett Trout on some issues, he does have a pretty big list of patent blogs on his site. His blogroll seems focused on US patent issues - comprehensively, I might add. Perhaps he'll be interested in a global patent meme as well.

Full post as published by Patent Troll Tracker on February 12, 2008 (boomark / email).