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December 10, 2008
The EPO define a computer implemented invention as an invention that works by using a computer, a computer network or other programmable apparatus. To qualify, the invention also needs to have one or more features which are...
December 11, 2008
Following up to our earlier blog post, a new decision has been issued in the ongoing legal battle between Mattel, the makers of Barbie dolls, and MGA, the makers of Bratz. Last week Mattel was able to get an injunction...
December 16, 2008
Data protection laws regulate how personal data is used. The UK principal legislation in this area is the Data Protection Act 1998 (“DPA“) which implements the EU”s Data Protection Directive. If...
December 24, 2008
Azrights is organising a meeting of sole practitioner IP/IT law firms to explore the possibility of sharing certain costs and resources, particularly those of working towards Investors in People and Lexcel accreditation, and...
January 9, 2009
How not to lose sense of priorities when running a business, that is the question. As you get sucked into the day to day, it is all too easy to forget the bigger picture. So, the holidays were useful thinking...
January 15, 2009
Following my earlier post I noticed this piece by Dayne Kaufman in Net Search Direct about Yahoo’s US terms for PPC advertisers. He concludes
“after you spend hours creating your campaigns, adding your...
January 19, 2009
We recently queried some small items of 20 Euro bank charges which we could find no explanation for.
HSBC identified the charges as being raised by Spanish bankers – Banco de Bilbao – who take receive money on behalf...
January 20, 2009
Unless you just have a lifestyle business you need to understand intellectual property rights. In fact even if you have a lifestyle business, you still need to know enough about intellectual property rights so as to avoid trouble...
January 22, 2009
The state of the world economy is not in the best shape and businesses are looking to cut costs. Trade mark owners are no different as they try to streamline expenditure without compromising brand protection.
Cost reduction, in...
January 22, 2009
The Intel Case
The European Court of Justice’s landmark ruling in Intel Corp v CPM (UK) Ltd on the 27 November may alter the landscape of European trademarks. This case clarified the European position on trade mark...
January 22, 2009
China is often cited as a high risk country for organisations to effectively enforce their intellectual property rights. There are however, a growing number of success stories where brand owners have successfully enforced their...
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has overturned the Domain Name Seizure Order which I discussed in my previous post. To recap, last year a court in Kentucky had seized 114 domain names from several online gambling sites. The lower court...
