phosita ::: quick links for 2005-08-09

• FBI – Intellectual Property Crimes - The objective of the IP program of the FBI is “to reduce the economic loss associated with the counterfeiting and theft of U.S. intellectual property by criminal conspiracies and other major offenders.”
• Patent Baristas: Generics Market Will Light On Fire – “About $100 billion worth of name-brand drugs will lose patent exclusivity in the next five years,” that’s $100,000,000,000!! You can bet that generic drug companies will respond.
• The Quotations Page: recent Quote of the Day – “Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.” (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
• Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog: When the file is too large to e-mail – You can upload the file to YouSendIt.com where it is stored for a short time until the recipient can download it. It works for files up to 1 GB.
• Patently-O: CAFC initiates mediation program – set to start October 3 of this year.
• Google gives ‘googling’ reporters cold shoulder – A reporter published information about Google’s CEO gleaned from a Google search. Google wasn’t pleased.
• Top 10 countries for music piracy – In one country 85% of the music sold is pirated. And, 31 countries have a larger market for pirated music than for legitimate music.

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Posted by Douglas Sorocco, August 9, 2005 at 9:46 am
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