Be careful when extending a covenant not to sue for patent infringement. Even if the covenant has unmet conditions can cause loss of rights. Source: shaked-law.com

On September 29th, Judge Virginia Kendall of the Northern District of Illinois denied Citigroup’s motion to dismiss a patent infringement suit brought by Card Verification Solutions, LLC, based on a software patent. Source: blogs.valpo.edu

How can you fight back against so-called “patent trolls”? Source: abovethelaw.com

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Patent reviews through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office offer the fast cheap proceedings that arbitration is supposed to provide and they just may kill the old way of arbitrating those disputes. Source: http://www.law.com

MaxVal Group, a Silicon Valley based patent portfolio management company launches Annuity Payer™ athttp://www.annuitypayer.com, an annuity payment and management solution. Source: http://www.annuitypayer.com

News. An online support center Friend aimed at decreasing the number of suicides among children and teens in Kazakhstan has opened in Almaty. Source: en.tengrinews.kz

Kazakhstan intends to enter capacious markets in the Southeast Asia, and to this end, it is reviewing the possibility of constructing a railway grain terminal on the border with China, Source: en.trend.az

News. Kazakhstani expert Nurlan Nurov talks about the possibility of Kazakhstan hosting the Olympics 2022 and the financial aspect of the endeavour. Source: en.tengrinews.kz

ASTANA – Professional and amateur musicians participated in an Oct. 4 Dombyra party musical event at the new National Museum of Kazakhstan to promote the traditions of the Kazakh people and the national instrument known as the dombyra. Source: http://www.astanatimes.com