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Legal Eye: Bogus brands face web crackdown
Comment A landmark ruling against eBay amounts to more than the multimillion-euro fine imposed by the court. The French court's ruling is a landmark that could see more online auction sites punished for counterfeit trading. [22 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Trademark landmark
Comment Ruling in 3's favour, the European Court of Justice said the use of rival trademarks is permissible in certain, specific circumstances. O2's initial proceedings before the English High Court were dismissed and put before the European Court of... [16 Jul 2008]
Will consumers always want free banking?
Comment However, a lack of transparency about charges has created an increased reliance on revenue from this source, ultimately leading to the court case. Because of the court case, consumers can expect greater transparency in bank charges, which will... [12 May 2008]
Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season
Comment But as well as seeking greater uniformity in practice, the move was almost certainly prompted by a recent landmark court judgement in the case of Wilson v Yahoo! This month Google changed its policy on selling keyword search terms containing... [30 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.04.08
Round-Up However, as it happens, the rather strange but law-abiding denizens of Second Life (no, not these guys… ) were the focus of attention this week as they made their case to Capitol Hill legislators that their world is safer and easier to police than... [04 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up It quotes some private emails from senior Microsoft executives which had emerged in a recent US court case. Are you worried that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will render your precious applications unusable? [07 Mar 2008]
Legal Eye: High Court's patent sense
Comment In the Macrossan case, the Court of Appeal refused a patent for a program that simply allowed users to produce documents via an interactive site. All the same, the High Court's decision does represent an important watershed. [13 Feb 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Microsoft vs EU
Comment Microsoft has had a near monopoly for at least a decade, and the EU court case has been running for years. The real lesson of this week's EU decision is that it is pointless issuing a court ruling 10 years too late. [18 Sep 2007]
The hard reality of virtual world litigation
Comment Because of this, the plaintiff sued Linden and Rosedale in federal court in Pennsylvania, asserting various causes of action, including unfair trade practices, conversion, interference with contractual relations and breach of contract. [14 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.09.06
Round-Up So, a trip to Tottenham Court Road and a nice little cash bonus for the staff, then, you might think but not a bit of it. Or at least they couldn't be seen until you cut and pasted the section into a Word document in which case you could read the... [08 Sep 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.08.06
Round-Up Now, because Hawke owes $12.8m awarded to AOL in a federal court case over the spammer's activities, the internet giant has brought in the services of bulldozers to unearth what treasures there might be. [18 Aug 2006]
Leader: Should McKinnon be extradited?
Leader The genuine fear we've seen in his face while attending his court hearings certainly make it difficult to condone the UK government's decision to hand this man over to the US. We suspect McKinnon's concerns about being sent to Guantanamo Bay may be... [07 Jul 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.05.06
Round-Up There's really only one place to begin this week and that's with the farce at the BBC which saw BBC News 24 interview an entirely clueless member of the public, with a poor grasp of English, live on air about last week's ruling in the Apple v... [19 May 2006]
Analysis: What's the next malware threat?
Comment In January this year, 20-year-old Jeanson James Ancheta pleaded guilty in a Californian court to charges that he had broken into government computers and taken control of them for purposes of fraud. The botnets are used by their owners to defraud... [12 Apr 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.03.06
Round-Up Our man Sam is an FBI agent (called Neville) escorting a crime informant to a court case. Rather than shoot or stab him or in fact do anything else remotely sensible they decide to smuggle a few hundred poisonous snakes on to the plane carrying him... [31 Mar 2006]
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