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Legal Eye: Trademark landmark
Comment Under the Trademark Directive, trademark owners have exclusive rights to prevent others from using a mark that is identical or confusingly similar to their own. Its award-winning technology, media and commercial practice employs 70 partners... [16 Jul 2008]
Users' privacy wins in YouTube vs Viacom
News Viacom will look like a responsible internet citizen, Google will no doubt be credited for standing up for internet rights and, most importantly, YouTube users don't have to worry about their privacy. [15 Jul 2008]
MPEG-4 Over IP Networks: A New Distribution Paradigm Emerges
White Paper To round out the technology set necessary to construct viable distribution networks, IP rights management is maturing to the point that studios are ready to entrust their valuable content to this new topology. [30 Jun 2008]
Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract
News But transferred staff will not retain their existing rights and redundancy packages under their new employers, with Shell estimating these will expire after about two years. Swee-Chen Goh, Shell VP global IT infrastructure services, said staff... [31 Mar 2008]
Legal Eye: Scrabble-Facebook row spells trouble
Comment Monetisation vs rights protection. Hard as it's been to escape the growing popularity of Facebook, news that the rights owners of Scrabble, Hasbro and Mattel, have asked for the removal of one of its most popular applications, has once again pushed... [29 Jan 2008]
Geography lessons for online retailers
Comment Geolocation can be used for delivering customised content, targeted ads, web analytics, digital rights management and regulatory compliance. Bringing geographic borders to the internet in areas such as online gambling or digital rights management... [09 Jan 2008]
Salten Broadband Rolls Out Triple Play Voice and Video Services Over Ethernet to the Home Network With Cisco Technology
White Paper Salten Bredband is using existing tubes, ducts and rights of way from its energy utility parent companies to help extend the fibre cost-effectively to households and reduce the overall digging requirement. [16 Nov 2007]
Yahoo! fights China human rights suit
News spokeswoman said the company is a strong believer in human rights and it respects freedom of expression and privacy around the world. deeply sympathises with the plaintiffs and their families and does not condone the suppression of their rights and... [28 Aug 2007]
Index ranks most-competitive IT countries
Countries must also balance open competition in IT and protection for intellectual property rights, according to The means to compete: Benchmarking IT industry competitiveness report. Despite praise for the UK's IP policies, the information... [12 Jul 2007]
Most competitive IT countries named
News Countries must also balance open competition in IT and protection for intellectual property rights, according to The means to compete: Benchmarking IT industry competitiveness report. Despite praise for the UK's IP policies, the information... [11 Jul 2007]
Broadcom warns Bush over Qualcomm chip veto
Overturning the ITC's remedy for Qualcomm's patent infringement would ultimately make it more difficult for US companies to defend their IP [intellectual property] rights and complicate the administration's IP policy initiatives. [09 Jul 2007]
Europe's execs turn to patents for cash
News According to the research, 53 per cent of companies surveyed said IP rights (IPR) are critical to their business model, up from 35 per cent two years ago. Europe's execs are increasingly attempting to protect their intellectual property (IP), a new... [25 Apr 2007]
Apple and Cisco kiss and make up
News Cisco also charged in its complaint that Apple had attempted to get rights to the iPhone name several times but after Cisco refused the company created a front company to try to acquire the rights another way, according to the lawsuit. [22 Feb 2007]
Ballmer fires off Linux patent warning shot
News Ballmer said: "I would not anticipate that we make a huge additional revenue stream from our Novell deal but I do think it clearly establishes that open source is not free, and open source will have to respect the intellectual property rights of... [21 Feb 2007]
Photos: Outsourcing to Russia
Photo Milovantsev admitted intellectual property protection is a "very serious problem for Russia" but said when it comes to industrial IP rights Russia has adopted a "very strict and solid position" and has ratified the EU directive on data protection. [15 Feb 2007]
