Archive for June, 2006

Beatles Apple label loses first round of fight with Apple Computer for use of Apple logo on iTunes store – Apple Corps Ltd v Apple Computer Inc, High Court

1 June 2006 | Paul Gershlick

The High Court has decided that Apple Computer, the supplier of iPod digital music players and downloadable music for iPods, had not breached a trade mark co-existence agreement with Apple Corps, the Beatles...

ICSTIS fines company £40,000 over misleading and hard to read reverse charge SMS advert in breach of its Code of Practice

1 June 2006 | Paul Gershlick

The Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of the Telephone Information Services, the body that regulates premium rate charged services in the telecommunications sector, has fined MX Telecom...

ICSTIS fines company £40,000 over misleading and hard to read reverse charge SMS advert in breach of its Code of Practice

1 June 2006 | Paul Gershlick

Gambling Commission publishes consultation paper on proposed licensing, compliance and enforcement regimes under new Gambling Act

1 June 2006 | Paul Gershlick

The Gambling Commission, the gambling regulator, has issued a consultation paper on the proposals for granting licences under the Gambling Act 2005, monitoring compliance with the new regime and enforcing...

ICANN shelves plans for ‘.xxx’ domain names

1 June 2006 | Paul Gershlick

The proposed introduction of a new set of '.xxx' domain names providing access to adult content has finally been shelved after a series of setbacks. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers,...

WIPO decides ‘synagisisbadforyou.com’ and ‘synagisisnotsafe.com’ are not confusingly similar to ‘synagis’ trade mark and should therefore not be transferred, despite evidence of bad faith

1 June 2006 | Paul Gershlick

MedImmune, a pharmaceutical company, sells a brand of medicine under the registered trade mark ‘Synagis’. MedImmune operates a website at ‘www.synagis.com’, which provides information about the...

Domain names ending in ‘.mobi’ now available for registration

1 June 2006 | Paul Gershlick

A new top-level domain name ending in ‘.mobi’ has been made available by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN is the body responsible for managing technical matters...

Eurostar, the train operator, unable to win rights to ‘eurostar.eu’ under .eu domain name dispute resolution service based on a prior co-existence agreement

1 June 2006 | Paul Gershlick

The body set up to hear disputes on disputes of ownership of domain names ending in '.eu' has refused to look into a mutual co-existence agreement between Eurostar, the train operator, and the registrant...

25% of 10-25 year olds admit to downloading music, films and software form the internet illegally

1 June 2006 | Paul Gershlick

A quarter of 10-25 year olds have admitted to downloading music, films and software off the Internet illegally. Those are the findings of the British Crime Survey, a study of 42,000 people in England...

US armed forces hacker Gary McKinnon faces extradition to US

1 June 2006 | Paul Gershlick

Gary McKinnon, a UK citizen who hacked into the networks of the US Army, Navy, Air Force and Department of Defense, should be extradited to the US, Bow Street Magistrates Court has ruled. The ruling...

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Archive for June, 2006

Beatles Apple label loses first round of fight with Apple Computer for use of Apple logo on iTunes store – Apple Corps Ltd v Apple Computer Inc, High Court

ICSTIS fines company £40,000 over misleading and hard to read reverse charge SMS advert in breach of its Code of Practice

ICSTIS fines company £40,000 over misleading and hard to read reverse charge SMS advert in breach of its Code of Practice

Gambling Commission publishes consultation paper on proposed licensing, compliance and enforcement regimes under new Gambling Act

ICANN shelves plans for ‘.xxx’ domain names

WIPO decides ‘synagisisbadforyou.com’ and ‘synagisisnotsafe.com’ are not confusingly similar to ‘synagis’ trade mark and should therefore not be transferred, despite evidence of bad faith

Domain names ending in ‘.mobi’ now available for registration

Eurostar, the train operator, unable to win rights to ‘eurostar.eu’ under .eu domain name dispute resolution service based on a prior co-existence agreement

25% of 10-25 year olds admit to downloading music, films and software form the internet illegally

US armed forces hacker Gary McKinnon faces extradition to US

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