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Inspiring Entrepreneurs – Surviving and thriving: controlling costs to boost your business Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Another inspiring Inspiring Entrepreneurs event this evening with the title of Surviving and Thriving: Controlling costs to boost your business. You can catch the webcast of the event once it is… (From In through the Outfield, Neil Infield’s blog on business and intellectual property)
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Inspiring Entrepreneurs – Surviving and thriving: controlling costs to boost your business
As we commented on this blog last week, the European Commission Competition DG report into the use of intellectual property in the pharmaceutical sector was not as bad as many (including us) were fearing it would be. In the next issue of IAM, which publishes at the end of this month, we have an article looking at the negative way in which IP is so often viewed these days and one of those contributing is Sherry Knowles, senior VP and chief IP counsel at GlaxoSmithKline.
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BLOG: GSK IP chief welcomes "balanced" European Competition DG pharma report
The British Library Business & IP Centre in London is part-funded by the London Development Agency (LDA). It launched in March 2006 and supports entrepreneurs, inventors and small businesses from that first spark of inspiration to successfully launching and developing a business. Since the launch, over 32000 entrepreneurs have used the Centre every year.
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Business & IP Centre promotional trailer
World Trademark Review, like IAM a part of The IP Meda Group, is reporting on a flurry of rumours doing the rounds in London that Clifford Chance could be about to downgrade its IP operation – and perhaps even abandon it altogether. The firm has ruled out the latter, but it does not seem to be denying that big chages could be on the way: "We’re not pulling out of intellectual property wholesale," the firm said in a statement. "As part of our partnership review we have been looking at practice groups across the firm, including intellectual property.
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BLOG: Trouble at Clifford Chance?
Part of an interview with Darren Shirlaw. Who We Are Shirlaws Company Profile Shirlaws started operations in July 1999, with the goal of establishing business coaching as an industry, primarily servicing the small- to mid-size business market.

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The list of potential candidates for the president’s job at the European Patent Office in succession to Alison Brimelow, who will be standing down in the middle of next year, is growing. In addition, to Roland Grossenbacher of the Swiss Patent Office, someone else to have more or less formally entered the fray is Jesper Kongstad. He is the head of the Danish Patent Office and another stalwart of the EPO’s administrative council
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BLOG: More names enter the fray in the battle to be the next EPO president
IP Australia has released three further consultation papers which discuss proposals for improving opposition proceedings and divisional application processes. The objective of the proposals is to reduce the period of uncertainty during which the public and third parties do not know where they have freedom to operate
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IP rights reforms
Cisco introduces new Small Business solutions, service and support to help Cisco partners better serve small businesses.
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Cisco’s Andrew Sage Discusses Why Now Is the Time for Small Business
Avaya IP Office 500, 406 & 412 Business Phone Systems from one of Canada’s largest voice and data resellers. Digitcom.ca
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Avaya IP Office 500 Business Telephone System, Digitcom.ca, Toronto
Avaya IP Office, S8300, Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express, Business Phone Systems from one of Canada’s largest voice and data resellers.

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Avaya IP Office, Cisco, Nortel Business Phone Systems. digitcom.ca, Toronto Canada
Limousine Eighteen Ltd. is a luxury ground transportation company based in Burlington, Massachusetts that offers airport transportation, chauffeured cars, and special services for corporate sports and entertainment events throughout New England, plus worldwide scheduling through a network of global affiliates
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Avaya IP Office – Limousine Eighteen Video Testimonial
In IceTV Pty Limited v Nine Network Australia Pty Limited [2009] HCA 14 , the High Court has decided that IceTV’s use of some of Nine Network’s time and title information obtained from aggregated program guides did not infringe Nine’s copyright in its weekly schedules. The High Court restored the trial judge’s original decision (see here and here )
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Ice TV not in breach of copyright
Fortknoxis Telecommunications – www.fortknoxis.com Investment in a telecommunication system requires business communication foresight. Businesses need to be able to effectively communicate today – yet want to make sure that they are properly equipped to handle the growing demands of their future communication needs. Highly modular and empowered with the latest SIP technology; the new KX-TDE IP PBXs are an ideal communication platform for customers to solve their business telephony needs …

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Panasonic Business Phone system – TDE Pure IP – PBX
From City trader to small business owner: William de Lucy realised that there was a huge gap between the tools and technologies that home traders can access, compared to professionals.
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Success Story of the Month: William de Lucy, Amplify Trading
Antoine Rouot walks through a demo of Nortel’s IP Powered Business demo from the Nortel booth at Mobile World Congress 2009.
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Nortel IP Powered Business demo at Mobile World Congress 2009
SIP Hosted PBX Business Phone System IP Communications VoIP SaaS Unified Communications Server Sip@demo.octopusip.com logs into SIP Softphone and makes VoIP phone call to hosted PBX conferencing application. Sip@demo.octopusip.com creates a hosted VoIP conference and logs into SIP Unified Communications Webmail to pickup VoIP conference PIN. Sip@demo.octopusip.com joins the hosted VoIP conference through desktop Softphone
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SIP Hosted PBX Business Phone System IP Communications VoIP SaaS Unified Communications Server
DarklandServers [RP] The Drug Business Server IP: 66.216.25.32:27015

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The Drug Business
IP Australia has recently completed a review of the penalty provisions in the Trade Marks Act 1995 . The review also considered additional damages in civil actions for trade marks. IP Australia considers that the maximum penalties for indictable offences should be raised to the same level as in the Copyright Act primarily because of the Commonwealth policy of consistency of penalty levels between similar offences.
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Trade Mark Counterfeit – Review of penalties and additional damages
Nortel’s IP Powered Business solutions make it easy for service providers around the world to sell and host pre-tested VoIP services to small and medium sized businesses (SMB). This video shows how the solution can help small business owners, mobile sales workers, and multi-site businesses make communications more efficient and affordable.
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Nortel IP Powered business solution
A detailed report outlining Australia’s involvement in the recent international cyber security exercise, Cyber Storm II, has been released by Attorney-General Robert McClelland. Cyber Storm II was held in March in conjunction with the US Department of Homeland Security National Cyber Security Division, the UK’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada and New Zealand’s Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection. Its key finding was that “Effective response is enhanced by routinely reviewing and testing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Incident Response Plans and/or crisis management arrangements.”
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Lessons learned from Cyber Storm II: international cyber security exercise
Australian academic Peter Black (Freedom to Differ) hosts Blawg Review #178 for One Web Day 2008 . The review features a range of law blogs discussing the economy, society, politics, technology and education. Most interesting was the post on the shrink-wrap licence surrounding a packet of grapes! Read it here
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Law, blogs and technology…and grapes
Commercial success: Imtaz set up her couture tailoring business more than twelve years ago and is now regarded as one of the leading lights in the new couture tailoring movement. She has been named by Cosmopolitan as one of the top four tailors in London.
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Success Story of the Month: Imtaz Khaliq, Imtaz Bespoke Tailors
In this business tv show, emerging market specialistsStephen Philips, Chief Executive, China-Britain Business Council, Ian Coleman, Partner, Head of emerging markets, PricewaterhouseCoopers UK, Frederique Schillern, COO Asia Pacific, Equity Trust, and Chris Runckel, President, Runckel and Associates, discuss the IP challenges that every company must consider before doing business in an emerging economy.
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Business TV – Strategies to preserve intellectual property
divergent – doing things different and better. But most companies focus on convergence on price, quality, features.image, branding, winning customers, online marketing and building trust. Consumer changes, preferences and lifestyles.
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Future Consumers, Lifestyles and Online Communities – impact of new technology, communications, wireless networking on business and personal life. …
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at the British Library have supported the UK Urban Fashion Awards since the initial concept… Adenike Durosaro (UUFA Founder and Manager) and myself (UUFA Creative Director) met Tim Campbell (Apprentice winner) here at the Business and IP Centre…
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Reuben Christian (UUFA Creative Director) at British Library
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VoiceCon 2007 Forum For IP Business Telephony
