8/29/2008 IP News & Blog Round-Up

• Can you Copy Without Infringing? - No doubt a question asked by many businesses in Asia. This conference in London will hope to shed a little pre-litigation light on the subject. (from IP Kat)
  

• Taiwan's Longlife Cigarettes Trademark Refuses to Die - For many decades a powerful brand in Taiwan's tobacco industry, Longlife looks to live on in China. (from IP Dragon)
  

• Who invented the Patent Troll? - Or more precisely, the somewhat-cute-yet-derogatory term. Peter Detkin and Anne Gundelfiner, both ex of Intel, have interesting if not slightly differing stories. (From IAM)
  

• The American Bar Association supports Legal Outsourcing - An issue that will surely affect thousands of businesses in Asia, if not more. (from Law.com)