Around the blogs. tytoc collie has recently had the chance to take a look at IP Sharing ("partage de savoir en propriété intellectuelle"), a participative IP weblog masterminded by the charming and erudite French lawyers Sébastien Oddos and David Lefranc. You can enjoy this tasty dish in English or French. Bon appetit! Elsewhere, PatLit -- a specialist patent litigation weblog which now contains getting on for 300 searchable posts -- has reached the 600 email subscriber milestone. And if you appreciate a good begging email, you may want to savour the three IP scams posted on IP Finance: there's even a poll so that you can help decide which is the best.
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If you know as little as tytoc collie does about Protecode, you might want to find out more here. According to the promotional material, Protecode has announced "a significant new capability that will enable software development organizations to view their code from a pure license obligation perspective reported in plain English". Anything which claims "plain English" appeals to tytoc collie. The company is transatlantic but, by way of mitigation, is Canadian. So if you dabble in anything open source, this might just come in handy ...
There was some money available for a juicy EU-funded research project on "patent costs: international comparison and analysis of the impact on the exploitation of R&D results by SMEs, universities, and public research organisations". Sadly, no-one got it. According to Ted (not a cuddly bear, but Tenders Electronic Daily) "the contract has not been successfully awarded due to the impossibility for 1 of the members of the winning consortium to present the proofs of fulfilment of the exclusion criteria. The contract might be subject to a new publication in case there is budget availability for this action in the coming years' work programmes". Indeed. It is tytoc collie's impression that ticking all the boxes in order to get a research contract these days is more difficult than doing the research itself. Any comments?
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