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Intellectual Property

Dec. 29, 2010

Copyright, Trademark Wars Hot in 2010

2010 ended with the death of comprehensive patent reform and an inconclusive U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a major patent case.


By Craig Anderson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


2010 ended with the death of comprehensive patent reform and an inconclusive U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a major patent case. But copyright and trademark practices saw the real action in intellectual property this year.


Mountain View-based Google Inc. was under siege, as the European Commission investigated whether its search engine violated antitrust law and authorities from around the world probe...

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