Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog : Maryland Intellectual Property Lawyer & Attorney : Brian Wm. Higgins : Serving Baltimore, Columbia, Frederick

• Univ. of Maryland University Center's Center for Intellectual Property announces its 2008-2009 asynchronous online workshop series. Courses include "Copyright Law and Integrated Access to Digital Course Materials," "Section 108," and "Fair Use and Balance in Copyright: The Best Practices Model," among others.
   
• KROLL's Global Fraud Report, release earlier this week, concludes that the average company loss due to fraud increased by 22%, based on input from 890 senior executives worldwide. The fastest growing type of fraud was information theft (27%: up from 22%), which KROLL attributes to, among other things, high staff turnover or weak internal controls.

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• 2008 Maryland trademark filings and registrations continue to trail 2007 numbers:

• Wake County, North Carolina, Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens ruled September 3, 2008, that two Chinese companies and a former Serenex employee must pay Serenex $57.5 million for damages. Serenex brought the action against the companies and former employee alleging corporate espionage and stolen trade secrets. [Womble Carlyle Trade Secret Blog]
   
• No. of IP-related lawsuits filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in August 2008: 9
   
• Top states in Technology and Science, according to Milken Institute (with 2004 rankings):

1) Massachusetts (1)
2) Maryland (4)
3) Colorado (3)
4) California (2)
5) Washington (6)
6) Virginia (5)
7) Connecticut (10)
8) Utah (9)
9) New Hampshire (12)
10) Rhode Island (11)

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