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Intellectual Property: US PTO on the verge of an outstanding error of judgement

American intellectual property laws are already scorned in many quarters but that does not prevent the US Patent and Trademark Office making ever more ridiculous grants. The latest is to be on track to allow the trademarking of the word "fa...



IP: Motorola claim patent infringement by Microsoft

Motorola Mobility, Inc., a subsidiary of Motorola, Inc, has filed complaints Microsoft Corp. with the U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of Florida and the Western...



Intellectual Property: Russian criminals fake Rolex website

Recently, our colleagues in The Risk Professional reported on how an e-mail address given to an insurance company had ended up in the hands of spammers within a week of it being given out to one person only. Now that address is in the hands of R...



IP: is there a "right" to have DVDs?

There was uproar when authorities in Penang stopped a car and its occupants were fined for being in possession of illegal copies of DVDs even though it was accepted they were for personal use. As the campaign goes national, there's a body of pub...



Intellectual Property: web business sold illegal copies of software

A father and son have pleaded guilty to selling USD1 million worth of counterfeit computer software through the Internet. And used search-engine small-ads to promote their activities.

Intellectual Property: conviction for uploading pre-release version of film to internet

A character in The Love Guru is compared to Tiger Woods, and then in a fall from grace, said to go "from role model to dating models."...



IP law: Business Software Alliance gets judgment against download site

The Business Software Alliance has won a substantial damages claim against Matthew Miller of Newark, Delaware who operated a website selling unau...



BizLawCentral: copyright in a digital age

An article Copyright Laws And Fair Use Doctrine - Are The Courts Against Bloggers? in Scientific Blogging gives a balanced argument in relation t...



BizLawCentral: Texas man jailed for selling counterfiet software

A Texas man has been jailed for 41 months for supplying "warez" over the internet



BizLawCentral: IP: NZ - Action against online auction house

Paul Meier of company Brand Developers has had enough: he's sold 45,000 "Ab King Pro" exercise devices - But Customs have seized more t...

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Intellectual Property

Copyright, patents, trade marks and other intellectual property rights.