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April 2007
CD-WOW! loses fight
against record
companies
Online music
store CD-WOW! has been
ordered to pay damages
to record companies
after it was found
guilty by the UK High
Court to have ...
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Cigar company ‘implied
consent’ court rules
The UK Court of Appeal
has dismissed a
lawsuit filed by
Corporacion Habanos SA
(CSA), the owner of
the Habanos cigars, in
which it sought ...
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Court invalidates
Brazil’s historic
football logo
The UK High Court has
invalidated the logo
used on Brazilian
football shirts
between 1914 and 1971.
The ruling, which was
handed down ...
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Court of Appeal rules
on computer game
structure
According to the UK
Court of Appeal, the
general ideas and
structures behind
computer games and
programs can be copied
so long as the source
...
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Do two stripes
infringe three
stripes? Adidas back
in Luxembourg
Adidas and its famous
three-stripes mark
have been before the
European Court of
Justice (ECJ) twice
before. In Adidas v
Marca Mode (Case
C-425/00), decided ...
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Duo denied UK software
patents while EPO
refuses to refer
questions
Attempts to clarify
the position on
software patents have
been turned down at
both UK and European
levels this month. On
13 March ...
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ECJ hands down QUANTUM
decision
The European Court of
Justice (ECJ) has
handed down its
decision in TIME ART
Uluslararasi Saat
Ticareti ve diş,
Ticaret Aş, v OHIM.
...
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Microsoft enters into
the Google Books
debate
Microsoft, the
software company that
is being sued by
Alcatel Lucent for
patent infringement
and Office Live for
trade mark
infringement in the
US, has ...
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News in brief
A first from the Court
of Paris In what is
the first French
decision ever
regarding the
infringement of a
molecular biology
patent, the ...
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Nokia brings Qualcomm
case to Europe
Mobile phone company
Nokia has stepped up
its patent fight
against Qualcomm by
filing patent suits in
the Netherlands and
Germany. The suits ...
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Pfizer blocks Ranbaxy
in Denmark
A Danish court has
granted a preliminary
injunction against
Nomeco, Denmark’s
largest pharmaceutical
wholesaler, which will
prohibit the sale of a
generic version of
Pfizer’s ...
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Rap star found guilty
of breaching agreement
Hip hop artist Sean
Combs, who is also
known as Sean Puffy
Combs, Puffy, and P
Diddy, has been found
by the UK High Court
...
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The ECJ rules on OHIM
v Kaul
The European Court of
Justice (ECJ) has
issued its decision in
OHIM v Kaul GmbH,
(Case C-29/05 P)
finding that both
parties had got it ...
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UK High Court cracks
down on software
sharing
An English mobile
phone engineer that
was discovered to have
illegally shared
software over
peer-to-peer networks
has been ordered by
the UK High Court to
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Viacom v YouTube
On 13 March Viacom
sued YouTube and new
parent Google for
copyright
infringement, firing
the latest shot in the
war between the
content industries and
...
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Vonage hit with US$58
million fine
A US federal jury has
ruled that Voice over
Internet Protocol (VoIP)
company Vonage
Holdings infringed
three of Verizon
Communication’s
patents and must
therefore pay ...
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