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What's the Buzz  |  Buzz Archive

A provoking sampling of what people are saying about intellectual property and its role in the creative process   

• Collegiate Inventors Competition seeking innovative students - over $75,000 in prizes! (Deadline of June 24, 2011)
  http://www.invent.org/collegiate
• IP Video Contest—Why is the Patent System Important? – Up to $5,000 cash prize (Deadline of July 1, 2011)
  http://www.ipvideocontest.com
• Facebook to trademark the word “face”
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8156669/Facebook-to-trademark-the-word-face.html
• A Trove of Historic Jazz Recordings has Found a Home in Harlem, But You Can’t Hear Them
  http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/a_trove_of_historic_jazz_recordings_has_found_a_home_in_harlem_but_you_cant?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tech_monthly
• Protecting America's intellectual property assets
  http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202491664461&src=EMC-Email&et=editorial&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&pt=NLJ.com-%20Daily%20Headlines&cn=20110428nlj&kw=Protecting%20America's%20intellectual%20property%20assets&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1
• Technology Transfer: From the Lab to the Marketplace
  http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news-technology-transfer-from-the-lab-to-the-marketpla-040611.aspx
• Patently absurd system encourages litigation, not innovation
  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/10/BU521IR7MQ.DTL&type=business
• USPTO Collaborating with Smithsonian Museum for Educational Outreach and Public Programs about Inventing -- Exhibition Dedicated to Innovation in 19th-Century America Opens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum July 15
  http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2011/11-18.jsp
• Patent law and disorder: The trolls are at it again
  http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/patent-law-and-disorder-the-trolls-are-it-again-989?source=IFWNLE_nlt_blogs_2011-04-15
• The Case of the Day: Can Genes be Patented?
  http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/04/04/the-case-of-the-day-can-genes-be-patented/?mod=djemlawblog_t