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Headlines from two RSS news feeds:
1) World Intellectual Property Organization
2) Law.com on Intellectual Property

An RSS Feed aggregator, also called an RSS News Reader, automatically polls, collects, and formats all new information it finds on the topics you specify.

A common RSS News Reader that you install on your computer is NetNewsWire from NewsGator. NewsGator makes an aggregator that works with Mac, Outlook or Windows Mobile. www.NewsGator.com.

In the aggregator demo below, we use a simple PHP program to search for and present an online collection of feeds from two distinct sources (WIPO and Law.com). This presentation is dynamic, so the content below changes when the text from the feed is updated by WIPO or Law.com.

This is the general idea of what a Reader like NewsGator does for you on your computer rather than on a web page as we are doing here.

If you need a website that is frequently updated with fresh content, but you do not have the dedicated schedule or manpower to create new content regularly, this is one possible solution, ie, tying into a syndicated feed, of course referencing content creators. You then present the syndicated content directly on your website and your web page will be automatically updated when the feed is updated, as occurs on this page.

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WIPO Upcoming Events

Working Group on the Legal Development of the Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks
2008-05-05 to 2008-05-09, Geneva, Switzerland

WIPO National Seminar on Trademarks and Industrial Designs
2008-05-06 to 2008-05-07, Vilnius, Lithuania

WIPO Summer School on IP
2008-05-06 to 2008-05-16, Bangkok, Thailand

Informal Liaison Meeting with the IP Offices of the Members of the Madrid Union
2008-05-08, Geneva, Switzerland

WIPO-KIPO-KIWA Korea International Women's Invention Forum
2008-05-09, Seoul, Republic of Korea

WIPO Coordination Committee
2008-05-13 to 2008-05-15, Geneva, Switzerland

Séminaire sur le système de Madrid concernant l'enregistrement international des marques
2008-05-15 to 2008-05-16, Geneva, Switzerland

WIPO Audit Committee - Ninth Meeting
2008-05-19 to 2008-05-22, Geneva, Switzerland

Seminar on Intellectual Property and Creative Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Digital Environment
2008-05-20 to 2008-05-22, Geneva, Switzerland

WIPO-IFRRO Subregional Seminar on Copyright and Related Rights and Collective Management of Rights
2008-05-21 to 2008-05-22, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Law.com IP HEADLINES

Spanx v. SPANK: Fighting Over a Trademark on a Tush
Spanx, the Atlanta-based creator of slimming "body shapers," has slapped Sexy Panties and Naughty Knickers with a suit for trademark infringement, claiming, in part, that the British lingerie purveyor's SPANK abbreviation is so visually and phonetically similar to Spanx that it confuses consumers. Wrote an attorney for Spanx in a letter attached as an exhibit, "The fact that your client chose a name that is too long to put on the product does not mean that Spanx has to tolerate the infringing abbreviation."

Kauffman Certifies Class in Generic Drug Lawsuit
A federal judge has certified a class action antitrust suit that accuses GlaxoSmithKline of using monopolistic tactics to boost its profits from Wellbutrin, a popular antidepressant, by delaying a generic version of the drug from coming to market. The suit was brought by direct purchasers who claim that GSK concocted a plan to keep Wellbutrin prices high by making fraudulent assertions to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and by engaging in "sham" patent litigation against generic drug manufacturers.

Kilpatrick Scores $304 Million Verdict for Adidas
Lawyers at Kilpatrick Stockton scored a $304 million victory for shoe company Adidas AG late on May 6 in what the law firm says could be the largest trademark verdict in U.S. history.

DOJ's Economic-Spy Strategy Emerges
Federal prosecutors' tactics are under fire as defendants in one Silicon Valley economic espionage case are used against defendants in another. For the government to succeed in its apparent strategy of trading sentencing leniency for one pair of defendants in order to help convict another pair on higher-profile charges, they'll have to first persuade Judge James Ware to turn aside defense challenges to the FBI's tactics, which were aired in his courtroom last week.

P&G Sues J&J Over Whitening Strips
Procter & Gamble Co. said May 2 it is suing rival Johnson & Johnson, alleging patent infringement over teeth-whitening strips. P&G charges that health products maker J&J and its McNeil-PPC unit broke two of its patents concerning the whitener's active ingredient and coating system. The lawsuit was filed in Wisconsin federal court.

Ono in Fight Over Copyright of Rarely Seen Lennon Video
Almost four decades after rare footage of John Lennon was shot at his estate in England, his widow is in court, fighting to keep the images private. World Wide Video LLC claims it owns the 10 hours of raw footage, but Yoko Ono claims she is the rightful owner. World Wide Video has filed a federal lawsuit against Ono, claiming Ono's attempts to stop the company from publicly showing the footage is a copyright infringement.

null: Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. WB Music Corp.
Despite objective reasonableness of copyright infringement plaintiff's novel royalty-receipt theory of recovery, plaintiff's continued, vigorous pursuit of discernibly doomed claim warranted award of attorney fees and costs in favor of defendant.

null: McNeil Nutritionals, LLC v. Heartland Sweeteners, LLC
District court did not clearly err in rejecting manufacturer's request for preliminary injunction against alleged trade dress infringement on ground that store-brand packaging was not confusingly similar, especially where packaging prominently displayed store brands' well-known marks; as to certain other store-brand packaging, however, district court gave undue weight to fact that products were store brands, effectively holding store-brand producer to lower standard of infringing behavior.

null: Sinorgchem Co., Shandong v. International Trade Commission
The Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a limited exclusion order of the International Trade Commission based on a finding that the appellant infringed four method claims of patents owned by the intervenor, Flexsys America, by producing in China and selling for importation to the United States a rubber anti-degradant. The court ruled that the commission's determination of infringement was based on an erroneous construction of the term "controlled amount" in the claims at issue.

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