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... Union governments on Thursday agreed the main components of a patent litigation system that will apply throughout the 27-country bloc: (IPWatch) Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament backs Commission Proposal to end design ... United Kingdom Triumph of style over substance? (UK Channel Management Ltd v E! Entertainment Television Inc and another): (IPKat), New UK TM search tool: (Filemot), (IPKat), New UK Patent rules are, according to the UK-IPO, due to come in on 17 December 2007: ( ...

... (India): (International Law Office) Japan Japan Fair Trading Commission raids music licensing society on suspicion of abuse of dominant market position: (Managing Intellectual Property) ... rules that myspace.co.uk domain does not need to be transferred to MySpace Inc, owners of myspace.com social networking site: (IPKat), Critics brand Phorm a regulatory ... FTC jump into standards-setting dispute that could affect country's conversion to digital television?: (IP Law360), Hal Wegner's top ten patent ...

A Swedish court of appeals has upheld the country's first conviction for sharing music files over the Internet without paying, in what the recording industry hailed as a victory. The Appellate Court backed a verdict by ... lobbying effort to extend similar rules to forthcoming wireless broadband networks. As part of a congressionally mandated switchover to digital television broadcasts, the federal government is preparing to auction off a generous chunk of the 700MHz broadcast TV band by early next ...

... should consider the implications for the marketplace of the provisions it puts into place. Steven Ellis, Canadian Film and Television Production Association Clarity and balance, supportive of TPMs, increase web capacity instead of throttling, levy on ... Picture Distributors Association Implement WIPO, ISPs should play a greater role, consumers have more legitimate options in countries with reformed copyright laws. Annie Morin, Canadian Private Copying Collective Expand private copying levy to deal ...

... ZIPCAR, CICAR and conceptual distinctions: Case T-36/07 Zipcar, Inc v OHIM, Canary Islands Car, SL: (Class 46), Operation scuttle - ... broadcasters to protect exclusive rights to broadcast football games to subscribers in individual EU countries; Football Association Premier League & Ors v QC Leisure & Ors to go ... Development and Licensing files lawsuit against Comcast alleging infringement of a patent for television set-top boxes: (IP Law360), Cypress Semiconductor Corp - California Court ...

... our way to the front pages of Business Standard: (Spicy IP), Bootleg baloney: It's music to the ears: (Spicy IP) Spain Spanish parliament passes new private copying levy ... IP Organisers), US & Japan - trial of New Route for obtaining patents in foreign countries: (IP Organisers), (PLI), Fewer IP lawsuits filed in 2007: (IP Law360), ... Prospector), Vizio - Vizio reaches settlement in Positive Technologies Inc.'s suit over plasma display television patents: (IP Law360), Vonage - Vonage and Nortel ...

... in Northern Ireland. Read more here (from BBC News). Chinese authorities have closed an influential publication at the heart of the country's budding civic society movement. Read more here (from Media Guardian). Performance regressions and the need ... ). Break.com, the online video site, has received investment funding from Lionsgate, the independent film and television studio. The investment amount was not disclosed.This is the first round of funding for the video-sharing site. Read more here ( ...

... not negatively impact public health and should fit with the needs of developing countries: (IP Watch), Open Innovation & Open Source: (IPCentral), Cory Doctorow ... light-emitting diode design patents (damages just $62): (IPLaw360), Youtube Inc. has appealed the decision of a district court to let Robert Tur, a journalist who sued ... new music-sharing Web sites: (IPLaw360), OpenTV Inc. and Liberate Technologies Inc. have reached a settlement in a lawsuit over patents related to interactive television ...

Turkish lawmakers have adopted a law allowing the state to block access to Internet sites that are deemed to insult the country's founder. The legislation also authorises authorities to cut off access to sites whose content includes ... SiliconValley.com). Media execs are criticizing potential further US government involvement in regulating what Americans watch on television and calling on industry lobbyists to prepare for a battle. "Well-funded" organizations are "distorting this conversation," ...