The world's intellectual property system is broken. It's stopping lifesaving technologies from reaching the people who need them most in developed and developing countries, according to the authors of a report released in Ottawa today by an international coalition of experts.

Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a lower court ruling and held that licenses such as Creative Commons (CC) licenses set conditions on the use of copyrighted work as opposed to covenants.

Do you have some great stuff in your Flickr account, at least in your opinion? You may find out if others agree with you. Getty Images and Flickr have announced a partnership: in the coming months Getty Images will troll Flickr for images and invite photographers whose pictures are deemed license-worthy to participate.

At the American Intellectual Property Law Association's Spring meeting being held in Houston, Texas, IBM's Associate General Council of Intellectual Property Law, Manny Schecter, will moderate a panel on the Peer-to-Patent project; a historic effort to improve patent quality by opening the examination process to community review.

Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) today announced successful interoperability testing of Mentor’s Serial ATA (SATA) Host/Device IP controllers integrated with the SMIC and TSMC SATA PHY IP solutions at the SATA-IO Plugfest #9 in Milpitas, California (Nov 12th-15th 2007).

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Vette Corp ("Vette"), a global provider of thermal management solutions, announced a series of agreements for Vette to license IBM's Rear Door Heat eXchanger water-cooling technology.

HP and Mouscan, a Korea-based start-up company with scanning and mouse expertise, announced a licensing agreement that will offer people a way to listen to printed text.

Microsoft Corp. today announced a plan for Bungie Studios, the developers of the “Halo®” franchise, to embark on a path to become an independent company.

By ruling that those copyrights had never been sold to SCO by Novell, the court triggered a process that will almost certainly tear down the rest of SCO's legal actions (and the company itself, since it now owes Novell the tens of millions of dollars it pocketed from Microsoft and Sun by licensing Unix intellectual property it turns out not to have owned).

CA, Inc. announced that it has filed an amended complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York against Rocket Software, Inc. alleging Rocket stole intellectual property associated with a number of CA's key database management software products.

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U.S. District Court sentenced an ex-Coke secretary Joya Williams for trying to sell Coca-Cola secrets and sell to Pepsi Cola.