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Legal Eye: Bogus brands face web crackdown
Comment Recent research we conducted with online intellectual property specialist Commercial Security International estimates the value of counterfeit goods passing through online shopping sites in the UK to be as much as £800m. [22 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Trademark landmark
Comment The necessity to maintain a well-defended portfolio of trademarks and intellectual property remains but recent developments have certainly moved the goal-posts. Its award-winning technology, media and commercial practice employs 70 partners... [16 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Blogging cowboys ride the Wild Web
Comment Indeed there are a range of laws that can catch offensive messages posted online, as well as other provisions, ranging from specialist intellectual property issues to incitement, that can trip up the unsuspecting blogger. [05 Jun 2008]
Legal Eye: High Court's patent sense
Comment The court decided the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) was wrong to refuse patent claims for computer programs. Increased market innovation and competition vs protection of intellectual property. [13 Feb 2008]
Legal Eye: Scrabble-Facebook row spells trouble
Comment The letter was a statement of intent from two companies keen to protect their intellectual property and once again highlighted the challenges that the digital sphere, and technology in general, presents to brands. [29 Jan 2008]
Lawrence Lessig
AS Profile Lessig has continued to lead the global debate on intellectual property this year - earning the Stanford University professor of law a spot on this year's list. The panel recognised Lessig as also being hugely influential in the UK, having shaped... [12 Oct 2007]
The Brampton Factor: Microsoft vs EU
Comment The other is the extremely restrictive character of US policy on so-called intellectual property rights. After all, intellectual property rights cannot be based on some kind of natural justice, they have to be based on what will give the best... [18 Sep 2007]
Prepare for some 'digital tension'
Comment This term describes Europe's policy position in regard to pervasive technologies and its concerns surrounding security, privacy and intellectual property legislation - both are squeezed between the frequently conflicting commercial interests of... [27 Sep 2006]
Open source - is it a risk for your business?
Comment Crucially, the licence includes no indemnity protection against claims by third parties for intellectual property rights (IPR) infringement, so the user of the software is not automatically protected from such legal actions. [31 Aug 2006]
Opinion: Corporate IT - you can help fight cyber crime
Comment The Scotland Yard economic crime working group addresses cyber crime, data and identity theft, counterfeiting and intellectual property rights, and money laundering. Though combating cyber crime is no doubt a matter for international law-makers, it... [03 Oct 2005]
Security in the spotlight
AS Analysis Wen and China are at the forefront of the digital rights management debate and the protection of intellectual property. Recent acquisitions are taking shape and the intellectual property the company has bought to develop antivirus and anti-spyware... [26 Sep 2005]
Devil's Advocate: IP disputes wholly unsatisfactory
Comment Do big companies really have any grievances over intellectual property? But the small companies are exactly those most opposed to extensions of patent law into software. It's just one more reason why software patents kill innovation, says Martin... [19 Jul 2005]
Leader: Is file-sharing sacking too heavy-handed?
Leader It also says his views on intellectual property and copyright are incompatible with their line of business as a software company. However in this case we seem to have a combination of naivety on the part of Hanff and a legally dubious knee-jerk... [04 Jul 2005]
Criminal IT: The crime you can still get away with
Comment Until relatively recently, there was no law to criminalise what might be recognised as obvious 'mischiefs' performed against computers; there was no legal framework to make hacking, viruses, denial of service or the theft of intellectual property... [28 Apr 2005]
Leader: Look to Russia
Leader In the ongoing debate over how to enforce intellectual property rights on digital content, we have an interesting development from Russia. Just as Moscow is located geographically between East and West, its intellectual property laws appear to also... [09 Mar 2005]
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