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IP Events and Conferences

Olswang’s OS Summit and the evolution of “open”

November 17, 2008

Olswang held its second summit on free and open source software (FOSS) at its offices last week. This year’s event was a much more intimate affair (last year had Bruce Perens and was at QE II conference centre), but was still very informative and well attended. Compliments and thanks to Nigel Swycher, the panel of [...]

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Future leaders IPI event – 28 October

October 28, 2008

Quick note to say that I’ll be at the Intellectual Property Institute‘s Future Leader event tonight (Tuesday, 28 October) as posted over on IP Kat: The Intellectual Property Institute (IPI), London, is interested to hear from enthusiastic young industrialists, professionals and businessmen who may thinking of taking a more active part in the activities of [...]

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New LinkedIn group for IP strategists

October 24, 2008

I notice with some interest that IP strategist and blogger Duncan Bucknell started an IP strategists group on LinkedIn in early September, and it now has 46 members (as of today).  I wonder, is this the beginning of moves that may lead to an international organisation of strategists as well as setting standards among IP [...]

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SOLO IP event notes

September 12, 2008

On Wednesday I attended the SOLO IP meeting at Olswang to listen to representatives from LexisNexis explain their product offering for solo and small firm IP professionals (though not before the IP Kat mentioned a grand scheme to change the face of legal research). LexisNexis mostly chatted about: Patent optimizer, a service with automated claim [...]

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Solo IP meeting in London | 10 Sept

September 10, 2008

Tonight, I’ll be at the SOLO IP group’s meeting at the (decidedly not a solo) Olswang’s London office. Via Jeremy Phillips at the SOLO IP blog: Don’t forget: this coming Wednesday, 10 September, is the date of the forthcoming SOLO IP group meeting (details here). It’s 5pm to 6.30pm at the London office of Olswang [...]

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US IP conferences for EU based IP professionals

September 4, 2008

The United States is generally quite a leader in IP – based in large part upon the size and sophistication of the companies located there and on the frequency of litigation (thus making for more decisions to dissect and frequent adjustments to the law around current practice). As a result, it can be quite important [...]

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LES Britain and Ireland Open Source event

September 3, 2008

Our UK and Ireland branch of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) is having an event on open source on Wednesday 10th September 2008 at 5:30 PM (speakers starting at 6). From the event description (DOC file): Free and open source software has had a radical impact on how we – both individuals and businesses – [...]

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