Archive for October, 2005

BlackBerry maker receives patent infringement claim

1 October 2005 | Paul Gershlick

Research in Motion, the business that makes BlackBerries, the wireless communications devices, has received a patent infringement claim over its BlackBerry 7100 services. Eatoni Ergonomics claims that...

Global project updating Open Source General Public Licence

1 October 2005 | Paul Gershlick

The Free Software Foundation has launched a project to update the General Public Licence. The GPL is used in the distribution of most open source software, including the Linux operating system. Although...

P2P service provider executives jailed in Taiwan

1 October 2005 | Paul Gershlick

Three executives working at Kuro, the Taiwanese peer-to-peer service provider, have been jailed for three years and fined approximately £50,000 each. A Taipei court convicted them of copyright infringement...

Nearly 1 in 2 SMEs have no software licensing policy

1 October 2005 | Paul Gershlick

44% of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK do not have any software licensing policy. In addition, nearly 3 in 5 SMEs do not keep records of the software that they use. Despite this,...

Australian Federal Court rules that KaZaA operators infringed copyright by permitting P2P file sharing

1 October 2005 | Paul Gershlick

The Australian Federal Court has ruled that Sharman, the company behind KaZaA, the Internet P2P file-sharing service, had authorised the infringement of the music industry's copyright by making its software...

Trade marks vulnerable to revocation after 5 years if no offer of sale of the product, but this can be to intermediary or end user – Laboratories Goemar SA v La Mer Technology Inc, Court of Appeal

1 October 2005 | Paul Gershlick

Laboratories Goemar had a UK trade mark registration for LABORATOIRE DE LA MER. La Mer applied to the High Court to revoke the trade mark registration on the basis that LG had not used it for five years....

DigiFilm and DigiFilmMaker too descriptive to be registered as European Community Trade Marks

1 October 2005 | Paul Gershlick

CeWe Color AG & Co, a German company, applied to register the words "DigiFilm" and "DigiFilmMaker" as European Community Trade Marks. However, the European Community Trade Marks Office refused the...

Community Trade Mark fees slashed

1 October 2005 | Paul Gershlick

The European Commission has announced that the cost of a European Community Trade Mark, which protects brands across the whole European Union through a single trade mark registration, is set to fall. ...

easyGroup fails to win “easiermobile.co.uk” domain name from Carphone Warehouse despite winning “easiermobile.com” in virtually identical case

1 October 2005 | Paul Gershlick

Stelios Haji-Ioannou's easyGroup has failed to obtain a decision from Nominet, the body that regulates ownership of domain names ending in '.uk', under Nominet's domain name dispute resolution process,...

Security programs on sale for mobile phones

1 October 2005 | Paul Gershlick

F-Secure, the security firm, has started selling a security program for mobile phones that stops viruses jumping from one mobile phone to another one nearby. F-Secure commented that many mobile phone...

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Archive for October, 2005

BlackBerry maker receives patent infringement claim

Global project updating Open Source General Public Licence

P2P service provider executives jailed in Taiwan

Nearly 1 in 2 SMEs have no software licensing policy

Australian Federal Court rules that KaZaA operators infringed copyright by permitting P2P file sharing

Trade marks vulnerable to revocation after 5 years if no offer of sale of the product, but this can be to intermediary or end user – Laboratories Goemar SA v La Mer Technology Inc, Court of Appeal

DigiFilm and DigiFilmMaker too descriptive to be registered as European Community Trade Marks

Community Trade Mark fees slashed

easyGroup fails to win “easiermobile.co.uk” domain name from Carphone Warehouse despite winning “easiermobile.com” in virtually identical case

Security programs on sale for mobile phones

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