Archive for June, 2008

Large but hollow victory for MySpace against junk mailers

1 June 2008 | Paul Gershlick

MySpace – the popular social networking site – has secured a judgment against Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines - two junk mailers - after they had used MySpace accounts which they had created or taken...

Court says establish whether elements of later composite mark have independent distinctive roles when judging possible confusion with earlier registered mark – Rousselon Freres v Horwood HomeWares, High Court

1 June 2008 | Paul Gershlick

The owner of already registered marks ‘PROFESSIONAL SABATIER’, ‘SABATIER’ and ‘SABATIER LION’ - which had been registered in class 8 on the trade marks register - applied for two later UK composite...

US jury rules that two and four stripes breach Adidas’s three stripe trade mark

1 June 2008 | Paul Gershlick

A nine person federal jury in Kansas has found that Collective Brands’ two stripe and four stripe shoes breached Adidas’s three stripe trade mark and has ordered Collective Brands to pay Adidas $305...

Ryanair’s advertising practices come under fire again as ASA refers it to the OFT

1 June 2008 | Paul Gershlick

Ryanair has come under fire again from the Advertising Standards Authority (‘ASA’), which has referred the low cost airline to the Office of Fair Trading (‘OFT’). The ASA have been investigating...

ITV receives record fine of £5,675,000 for abusing premium rate services

1 June 2008 | Paul Gershlick

ITV has been fined by Ofcom - the broadcasting regulator - a total of £5,675,000 for serious breaches of Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code in relation to the abuse of premium rate services (‘PRS’). The...

44% of UK businesses report firing employees for violating email policies

1 June 2008 | Paul Gershlick

44% of UK businesses have reported sacking employees in the past year for violating email policies and 78% of UK business reported disciplining workers for this offence. In addition, 53% of UK businesses...

French court rules RSS website liable for having snippets from source websites that invaded privacy

1 June 2008 | Paul Gershlick

A French court has ruled that three websites which published snippets of a story about Sharon Stone, the actress, on their websites through an RSS feed from a third party website was liable under the country’s...

Appeal panel overturns ruling which had ordered the transfer of the myspace.co.uk domain name to MySpace

1 June 2008 | Paul Gershlick

A Nominet appeal panel has overturned the Nominet arbitration panel’s ruling that MySpace had the right to have the domain name myspace.co.uk transferred to it. Upload-IT reported in February this year...

Offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel abolished

1 June 2008 | Paul Gershlick

The common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel have been abolished. The abolition was brought in by the recently passed Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. The changes will take effect...

Government tightens its grip on phone and email records

1 June 2008 | Paul Gershlick

Two pieces of news have emerged concerning the increased regulation surrounding data retention. Firstly, the Government has announced that it will be looking to pass the Communications Data Bill. This...

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Archive for June, 2008

Large but hollow victory for MySpace against junk mailers

Court says establish whether elements of later composite mark have independent distinctive roles when judging possible confusion with earlier registered mark – Rousselon Freres v Horwood HomeWares, High Court

US jury rules that two and four stripes breach Adidas’s three stripe trade mark

Ryanair’s advertising practices come under fire again as ASA refers it to the OFT

ITV receives record fine of £5,675,000 for abusing premium rate services

44% of UK businesses report firing employees for violating email policies

French court rules RSS website liable for having snippets from source websites that invaded privacy

Appeal panel overturns ruling which had ordered the transfer of the myspace.co.uk domain name to MySpace

Offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel abolished

Government tightens its grip on phone and email records

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