Producers of Dallas Buyers Club take iiNet to court … Electronic Frontier Foundation seeks to protect your right to play old games … UK government commits to funding specialist online copyright infringement policing unit … Rocco Rinaldo reports ... more
Category: Intellectual property
International IP news
Key features of the leaked second draft of Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement IP chapter … Graphics processing unit maker sues Samsung and Qualcomm … UK High Court paves the way for extended website blocking … Rocco Rinaldo reports ... more
International IP news
British musician’s new album available for sale on BitTorrrent … US Supreme Court patent judgments impacting on patent trolls … Cartier seeks extension of injunctive relief … Rocco Rinaldo reports ... more
IP news, here and there
Australia’s Full Federal Court upholds cancer gene patent … Disney takes on Canadian musician in Mickey Mouse dispute … CBS loses “podcasting patent” case … Rocco Rinaldo reports ... more
IP news, here and there
A range of responses to the Australian government’s discussion paper on Online Copyright Infringement … Disney patents three new drone technologies … Google expands open patent pledge to developers … Rocco Rinaldo reports ... more
International IP news
English Premier League cracks down on GIF and Vines copyright infringement … World’s “biggest podcaster” settles patent suit … Snapchat’s future to be decided by US patent judges … Rocco Rinaldo reports ... more
International IP news
Spain takes on Google again, this time in respect of news aggregation … US citizens free to unlock their phones, at least for the next three years … Expendables 3 and the seemingly insoluble problem of online movie piracy … Rocco Rinaldo reports ... more
IP news, here and there
First award of “additional damages” in Australian trademark dispute … Singapore passes ISP level blocking laws … US anti-troll bill progresses, slowly … Rocco Rinaldo reports ... more
IP news, here and there
Apple’s patent royalty dispute strategy backfires … Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom manages to stall US civil suits, for now … US anti-patent trolling bill unlikely to pass this year … Rocco Rinaldo reports ... more
IP news, here and there
Apple and Google settle patent dispute … US states move on anti-patent trolling laws … Patent trolling study details … Rocco Rinaldo reports ... more
IP news, here and there
Sydney court sentences Foxtel pirates … US Supreme Court opines about lawyers costs in patent disputes … $32 million lawsuit against “Pirate King of MMA” ... Second Apple v Samsung jury verdict … Rocco Rinaldo reports ... more
IP news, here and there
UK cyber crime police shut down sports torrenting site … South Africa prosecutes its first Pirate Bay up-loader … Kim Dotcom’s latest legal wrangles … Game creator backs down in trademark dispute … Rocco Rinaldo reports ... more