Monday, June 22, 2009
More business for Newscorp's NDS
The recent federal court's verdict on the long standing patent litigation (involving the US patent 6,233,389) between the Dish Network (erstwhile Echostar - WO2008027406A1) and the digital video solutions provider Tivo has consolidated the position of NDS, a Newscorp and Permira owned company. NDS is only the second player in the same field providing digital video solutions standing second to Tivo. NDS has patents (US20090080866A1, US20080285943A1) in the field of Video Substitution or the ability to rewind, fastforward etc options on the satellite tv. Already NDS has several clients across the globe. With this court order, the position of NDS would be bolstered or subtly proclaimed that its THE alternative for the satellite TV providers across the globe to seek video solutions inorder to showcase the video subsititution features.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
ICAP bags Ocean Tomo : My thoughts

Indeed, there is a lot of synergy between the two but on the long term horizon IMHO it would’ve been great to see Thomson Reuters buying Ocean Tomo than ICAP. No doubt ICAP has a lot of synergy in the brokerage domain but it takes more to deal with the patent brokerage. Had the buyer been Thomson Reuters then the value addition is just manifold. A combination of a patent database provider, patent brokerage firm and a media biggie Reuters would be deadly for this IP Business as a whole. However, I don’t discount the importance of the company financials that these M&A deals are clout with.
Intellectual Property infringement threat on Facebook…why not on linkedin?


Novartis yet again sued over contraceptive pill patent

Monday, June 15, 2009
Potent message with a swimsuit tag
"Please take care of our oceans, without which the swimsuit might be extinct" - Source
The message goes loud and clear. The World Oceans Day announced by the UN couldn't have been reached out and celebrated better. The article includes a video which describes the evolution of the swimsuit innovation.
The message goes loud and clear. The World Oceans Day announced by the UN couldn't have been reached out and celebrated better. The article includes a video which describes the evolution of the swimsuit innovation.
Europe Gearing for renewed IP Laws?
With a seat victory by the The Pirate Party “Piratpartiet” in the Sweden's eighteen European Parliament seats in the European Parliament, its is quite evident that the europe would look at IP laws of the present and fill out any gap that may exist. This party has already won with the following on its manifesto.
* legalising Internet file-sharing
* overhauling copyright and patent laws
* free access to the Internet
* extend copyright terms to 90 years
* patent protection for software inventions
* european patent courts etc
This incident is all set to go down the european history lanes. For more information on this please click here.
* legalising Internet file-sharing
* overhauling copyright and patent laws
* free access to the Internet
* extend copyright terms to 90 years
* patent protection for software inventions
* european patent courts etc
This incident is all set to go down the european history lanes. For more information on this please click here.
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