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17 May 2013
New rules have been drafted which would prohibit 'ambush marketing' and illegal street trading during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
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13 May 2013
Infringers of registered designs could face a jail sentence and a fine under proposed reforms to UK legislation.
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09 May 2013
The use of Internet Protocol (IP) address sharing technology will not prevent individuals from being identified as the perpetrators of illegal online activity, BT has claimed.
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08 May 2013
It may be more difficult for patent holders to justify taking court action to prevent rival firms using technology they have been involved in developing after the European Commission has ruled on a patent dispute, two experts have said.
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07 May 2013
Photographers and other rights holders will help define what constitutes a 'diligent search' for the author of copyrighted material as part of reforms to rules on 'orphan works' licensing, Out-Law.com has learned.
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02 May 2013
The absence of 'metadata' from digital files will not automatically mean that creative material would be 'orphan works', the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has said.
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30 Apr 2013
Sponsors may be willing to pay more for the commercial rights to major sporting events that already hold trade marks offering protection against 'ambush marketers', an expert has said.
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23 Apr 2013
The EU's highest court has helped to define the circumstances in which legal disputes can be said to be about a contractual or non-contractual issue, an expert has said.
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22 Apr 2013
A law reform body has proposed changes to the law that would make it easier for businesses seeking to protect their trade marks and design rights to make threats of legal action against alleged infringers of their rights without fear that those threats...
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19 Apr 2013
Pharmaceutical firms are facing problems in their attempts to patent genes isolated from human DNA in the US and the European Union, according to an expert. The US Supreme Court is currently considering a human gene patent case.
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