Intellectual Property and Computers

• World Wild Life Fund Misses The Bus

• You can't have your rice and eat it

• Breach Of Registered Community Design Considered

• How do you decide about breach of Community Design?

• Businesses Caught Out by Trademark Law Trap, Warns Law Society

• Law Society gives timely reminder of protection from Trade Mark rickery.

• Change Of Use Of Device - Where Does IP Benefit Lie?

• Can the designers of stress balls complain when someone uses them for doing the washing?

• Charles Christian Feature

• IT guru for lawyers, Charles Christian

• Churches Risk Porn For Phone Masts

• Church court has interesting case about phone masts

• Community Trade Marks Regs

• New Community Trade Marks Regs

• Da Vinci Code Case Report

• Simmons & Simmons decode this case

• Data Sharing Unjust?

• Eversheds are good, for local government law, and more . . .

• Double Glazing Competition Fine Upheld

• Appeal tribunal upholds enormous double glazing fine

• E-Business Newsletter

• Law Society E-Business Newsletter April 2006

• ECJ on Hotel Transmissions and IP

• Authors retain rights over communication with hitel guests who are the "public" after all

• EU Throws Record Industry Into Chaos

• Should the EU interfere with company mergers?

• Employee's Invention Goes to Employer

• Isn't this obvious about intellectual property?

• Euro Court on Medical Re-Packaging Case

• Re-Packaging case Opened Up by European Court

• File Sharers Sued Throughout Europe

• File Sharers get the bite Europe-wide

• Freedom Of Information Act A Success

• The Lord Chancellor praises FOI

• Freedom of Information Costs Increase

• Government hails FOI and then reduces its effectiveness by charging more

• Home Office Puts Pressure on Paedophiles' Internet Use

• Internet ID's to be disclosed by sex offenders?

• Intellectual Property Law from SPR

• Good quality, easy to read article from SPR - to patent or not - what is the point?

• International MP3 Litigation

• Dominant Position in MP3 Market Considered

• International Patent Application Fails

• Judge refuses appeal after error in patent filing process

• Issue Estoppel After Trade Mark Registry Action

• Effect of Trade Mark Registry action on High Court proceedings

• Judges to Jail Data Traders

• DCA tightens rules about data protection

• Law Society E-Business Newsletter

• The Law Society sets a new standard in E-Business newsletters

• Law Society Gets WiFi

• Law Society turns on to internet access at top venue

• Law Students and Plagiarism

• Legal Practitioner analyses law student plagiarism figures.

• MOT Fees Go UP

• New computer system sends MOT fees higher

• Music Law Updates

• A useful resource for Intellectual Property information

• New Regulations help to protect Intellectual Property

• A new Statutory Instrument helps international protecxtion of intellectual property

• New Rules about Computer Tax Breaks

• Computer tax exemption goes

• Obvious Patent Queried - Disclosure Allowed

• Disclosing documentation relating to queried patent application where obviousness alleged

• Password Disclosure Required

• Passwords are no longer sacrosanct

• Patent Appeal - New Points From Comptroller General

• If the Comptroller General can't put forward new appeal points, who can?

• Patents Act Powers To Decline Dealing

• Comptroller General and his powers to decline to take action

• Patents For Unsuccessful Applicants?

• Court rules against patent applicant

• Pele's Shirt Badge In Court

• Court finds that old badge not registrable as trade mark

• Pool Game Copy Not Breach Copyright

• Surprising decision about Pool Games?

• Royal Diaries - To Publish or Not?

• Should Charlie's Diaries be published by mere newspapers?

• Search Orders For Computers Validated

• A possible search order loop hole blocked

• Search Orders and Computers?

• Are solicitors well enough organised to search computers properly - is anyone?

• Sex Establishment Loses Appeal

• Authority right to take late objections into account if does so fairly. Only recently reported.

• Should Meat be Sold at New Covent Garden?

• Battle bewteen Smithfield and New Covent Garden hots up

• Sole Ownership Claim of Patent Allowed

• Can a claim for joint ownership of a patent be changed to a claim for sole ownership out of time?

• Statute Database a Reality At Last?

• Up-to-date UK Statutes access moves a step closer

• Street Map Wiki

• Need a street map - got GPS gear? - draw your own!

• Tennis and Logos

• Tennis matches, dress code and logos

• Trade Mark Courts - EU or National Law to Take Precedence?

• EU rules against national courts and helps to define special circumstances

• Trade Mark Strategy Considered by SPR

• Consider Trade Mark Strategy with SPR

• Trademark War Over VIPS

• Should the first VIPS trademark be protected even if its a different country?

• UK Precedent Does Not Over-Rule EU case

• The Court of Appeal can ignore precedent which is contrary to EU decision

• UKLawyers Archive of Intellectual Property and Computers Materials - March 2006

• The collection of all our Intellectual Property & Computers materials published by us in March 2006

• Unsurprising Trade Mark Case Sucks

• Vacuum cleaner case surely not entirely surprising

• WWF Bites Euro Government

• If you've got a duty to disclose information you have a duty to record it too.