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August 10, 2009
OUT-LAW commented recently on Facebook’s offer to companies to notify them of any trade marks that they wished to reserve prior to the rolling out of the username system. It was hoped that this would act to...
August 16, 2009
What would you do if someone spray painted something defamatory on the side of your house? You might call the police or the council, but most likely you’d clean it off yourself. It’s an annoyance, but one that could be...
August 19, 2009
When Bing Crosby sang ‘You’ve got to accentuate the positive/and eliminate the negative” back in 1944, he probably wasn’t thinking about the Internet and promoting business reputation.
But at its simplest,...
August 26, 2009
We have previously written about anonymity online here in relation to Norwich Pharmacal orders in the UK, it is a very topical subject, lying at the intersection of freedom of speech, and defamation law. Now recent events...
August 28, 2009
The patenting of software and business methods, one of the more controversial strands of protection offered by intellectual property regimes in modern times, has traditionally been more accessible to inventors in the United States...
September 8, 2009
New labour have raised a new slogan to be drummed out from the political pulpit: “Innovation Innovation Innovation”. The government is paving the way for a digital future for Britain and, in doing so, wants to reign...
September 17, 2009
Would it not be an amazing day when you could download every book under the sun from one source. From visiting your library, to your local book shop, to online bookshops, to digital libraries – the digital revolution or...
September 25, 2009
Some people are confusing the recent press reports concerning the case of Louis Vuitton vs. Google Inc. with an actual ruling. In fact the ECJ has not delivered its ruling as yet. The recent release from the ECJ was...
October 1, 2009
The UK Trade Mark Registry has launched a new trade mark application service called Right Start which goes live today.
Under the Right Start service applicants will be able to test whether their trade mark will be accepted by...
October 2, 2009
The troubles within the Freecycle network have resulted in over 40 per cent of the UK Freecycle groups breaking away to form an independent network called FREEGLE the Ecologist reported this week: The Ecologist Report.
Unless...
October 7, 2009
On the 22 September 2009 the Advocate General Poiares Maduro delivered his opinion on the question of the legality of Google Adwords in relation to EU trade mark law. He found that Google is not infringing trade mark laws by...
October 8, 2009
The recent news that the Federal Trade Commission intends to revise the rules from 1st December so as to require bloggers to disclose any connection with advertisers, including, the receipt of free products “Guidelines...
