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He who D.A.R.E.’s infringe copyright fails… but what’s the damage?
Posted on 二月 22, 2012 by adminsampsung in CopyrightBy Rosie Burbidge @ Art and Artifice There have been a number of recent cases in the Patents County Court for England and Wales which have affected the world of art. The “red bus” decision has attracted the most attention but another case, Hoffman v D.A.R.E, regarding the application of the “innocent infringer” defence and calculation of damages [...]
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Attacking Australian Patents – Re-examination & Revocation
Posted on 二月 22, 2012 by adminsampsung in Patentby Mark Summerfield @ Patentology As many readers will be aware, Australia has a pre-grant opposition procedure which can be used to challenge a decision of the Australian Patent Office to issue a patent. Opposition proceedings are conducted before the Patent Office, and are initiated by the opponent filing a Notice of Opposition. There is, however, [...]
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BGH: hyperlinks, freedom of expression and copyright infringing software
Posted on 二月 22, 2012 by adminsampsung in Copyrightby Birgit Clark @ The IPKat on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 In October 2010, the Bundesgerichtshof (“BGH”), Germany’s highest court in civil law matters, decided in the ‘AnyDVD’ case (case reference I ZR 191/08) a lawsuit brought by several music companies against Heise Verlag, an online publisher specializing in IT and computer news (see the IPKat’s earlier report here). [...]
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Apple v. Proview. China Trademarks And So Much To Learn.
Posted on 二月 21, 2012 by adminsampsung in Trademarkby Dan @ Chinalawblog A reporter called me the other day on the Apple-Proview trademark kerfuffle. She kept wanting me to give her a quote on what foreign companies should take away from this dispute and I kept parrying with her, unable to give her just one. I kept finding myself saying “it’s probably more complicated [...]
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Pirate Bay “a stronger case” of infringement than Newzbin
Posted on 二月 20, 2012 by adminsampsung in CopyrightBy Jeremy @The 1709 Blog Dramatico Entertainment Ltd & others v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd & others [2012] EWHC 268 (Ch)(20 February 2012) is today’s big British copyright news. Mr Justice Arnold, sitting in the Chancery Division, England and Wales, gave judgment. This blogger hasn’t yet had a chance to read the details, but this is how Music Week saw [...]
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