Category: Intellectual property

Another Federal Court trademark infringement … Remuneration rate set for multi-channels … Sydney Uni students caught copying textbooks … Australian Winnebago to appeal … Apple seeks ban on eight Samsung products … Kanye West defends song copyright with a little help from Nietzsche … Mitt Romney’s campaign in trouble over use of songs ... more

Two interesting Federal Magistrates Court decisions on copyright … US court finds isolated human genes patentable … Australian decision pending … Google responds to copyright removal notices … Four year jail term for UK file sharer … IKEA reveals the worth of its trade mark ... Publication of pop singer’s marriage photos without consent not fair use ... more

Federal Court bins Australian’s Winnebago registration … Company Facebook pages deemed responsible for advertising code breaches … GM giant Monsanto reaps giant patent damages … myVidster not guilty of copyright infringement … Another reality game stoush … US Cybersecurity Act gets the thumbs down … Blanket order on Bollywood film … From North Face to Butt Face ... more

Copyright decision on educational questionnaire … Apple and Samsung start Federal Court stoush … US jury kerfuffle in Samsung case … Internet Defence League launches with “cat signal” ... NZ’s three-strikes copyright infringement stats … Russia re-claims vodka trademarks … “Nice” cease & desist letter goes viral … Kim Dotcom compares himself to Martin Luther King ... more

Shoe retailer back on the front foot … Hepburn Springs bath owner refused spa registration… Productivity Commission to investigate patent licensing … Samsung not as cool as Apple … Re-sale of downloaded software decision … European Parliament kills off ACTA … Def Leppard take on Universal by re-recording old hits ... more

Google gets special leave … ACTA not transparent enough … TPP under scrutiny in the US … Decisive royalties win for Eminem and other recording artists … Tetris clone infringed copyright …Universal’s “pre-emption” defence fails …European patent deal compromise … NatWest (the person) victim of NatWest (the bank) computer error … Holocaust author’s works to become available ... more

Two Federal Court decisions of great import … The difference between granola and muesli … Beauty salons get $50,000 damages bill for playing unlicensed music … Kraft at war with Mars … The great internet name rush … South African king issues “authentic” clan trade mark ... more

Foxtel royalty decision … Small beer wars in Brunswick … California’s resale royalties law unconstitutional … Authors can bring class action against Google Books … Latest in Megaupload wrangle … “Cheech and Chong” test for Apple/Samsung battle … EU rejects ACTA … Good news for app developers ... more

Swisse Vitamins denied procedural fairness … New US fair use guidelines for universities … Another blow for Oracle … YouTube win against French broadcaster … Google puts a figure on URL removal requests … And fights another domain name battle … US basketball player wins copyright over use of his own name … Olympic Committee’s florist crackdown ... more

Drug company gets 10 year extension … ACCC saves artists’ costs … Apple loses appeal against Samsung … Results of the 2011 Global Software Piracy Survey … US lags in copyright enforcement plan … US Supreme Court refuses to hear file sharer’s case … No patent infringment by Google … Chef seeks patent over steak … Granny in Olympic trade mark stoush ... more

Optus to appeal TV Now decision … Injunction granted over text threat to breach copyright … Sydney artist sues Madonna over perfume logo … Unlocking geo-blocked sites … Google v Oracle saga continues … New York judge criticises use of IP addresses in mass actions … Chinese company loses case over iPad trade mark … ACTA likely to go the same way as SOPA … First file-sharing church wedding ... more

A dearth of copyright proposals in Convergence Review … UK orders ISPs to block infamous file-sharing site … Italy fails to protect copyright over the internet … Titantic 3-D producer in copyright tussle with Picasso estate … 92 year-old defies MPAA to copy Hollywood movies ... more