Archive for December, 2005
UK travel websites are not catering for the disabled, according to the results of a study of popular sites by Nomensa, the Internet research and design consultancy. Of the 10 UK travel sites researched,...
MP proposes law requiring ISPs to state whether they block access to child porn…
Margaret Moran MP has proposed a change in the law to require Internet service providers to declare whether or not they block access to child pornography. BT's Cleanfeed system shows technology already...
Electronic companies accused of inflating prices for online shoppers…
The Office of Fair Trading is investigating a complaint from the Interactive Media in Retailing Group that electronics manufacturers have been increasing wholesale prices to Internet retailers to prevent...
New organisation buys up Linux patents to offer them royalty-free…
Open Invention Network, a new patent-holding organisation, has been founded with the aim of buying up patents relating to the Linux open-source software and licensing them royalty-free to Linux users. ...
It may be Christmas presents for Wizzard children every day…
Children who sang in the chorus of one of the most popular Christmas songs, 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day', in 1973 may be in line to get royalties 32 years on. Each time the song is played,...
High Court dismisses applications for summary judgment by producers of ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ in format rights dispute –Celador v Melville, Baccini, High Court…
The High Court has thrown out Celador's attempts to dismiss separate claims by Alan Melville and John Baccini that Celador had infringed their copyright and misused their confidential information by copying...
Grokster and KaZaA lick wounds from recent court battles and turn legal…
Grokster and KaZaA are turning legal, following recent court battles that went against them. In Grokster's case, the US Supreme Court ruled that Grokster and StreamCast, which both provide software allowing...
Company cannot use its name in combination with another’s registered trade mark for identical goods or services – Medion AG v Thomson Multimedia Sale, European Court of Justice…
Medion owned the trade mark registration for "LIFE" in Germany. Thomson used the name "Thomson Life". Medion issued proceedings for trade mark infringement against Thomson. The European Court of...
European Court rejects application to register BioID as a trade mark because relevant customers would see it merely as an abbreviation -BioID AG v OHIM, European Court of Justice
BioID AG applied to register "BioID" as a European Community Trade Mark. The European Community Trade Mark Office, OHIM, rejected the application on grounds of lack of distinctiveness. BioID appealed. ...
Prospective new .xxx domain suffers further setback…
The introduction of a new set of '.xxx' domain names providing access to adult content has been further delayed following concerns from ICANN that it needed to investigate further. No date was given...