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Intellectual property everywhere….

Let me let you in on a secret: when there is no obvious topic for my weekly blog, I scour the Web. I am in particular a fan of Google News, which, unlike other news sites, operates without human intervention. Its bias is due solely to its search algorithm (which is proprietary and protected by a trade secret). Thus its use, filtered only by chronology, gives sometimes unforeseen results.

This week, Google News highlighted a number of items of interest: another case of generic drugs in India, a visit of Indian businessmen to China to participate in the Global IP summit, analyses of continuing and new lawsuits in semiconductors and software (last week Nokia sued Qualcomm, and Oracle attacked SAP).

But there were other, less evident, less mainstream nuggets of information:

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