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April 27, 2012
Prototype shoes, banned songs and poor grammar: have you been following the news in IP this week?
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April 25, 2012
A court in Germany has become the first to rule that YouTube must use filtering technology to check for copyright infringement, in this case for repeated uploads
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April 05, 2012
Test your knowledge of this week’s IP developments. All the answers can be found in items on managingip.com published in the past five days
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March 28, 2012
IP owners are mistaken if they imagine yesterday’s decision by MEPs not to refer questions about ACTA to the EU’s top court reflected a softening in their position
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March 15, 2012
Hogan Lovells won the inaugural global IP firm of the year award at tonight’s Managing IP Awards Dinner in London
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January 27, 2012
Free access: The nominations for Managing IP’s Global Awards 2012 have been announced
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January 05, 2012
As the clock counted down to 2012, the estates of artists, creators, authors and composers prepared to see their incomes wane as copyright works slip out of protection
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September 29, 2011
The original advocate of reforming collecting societies explains why the system is such a mess, but the European Commission can do little about it
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September 27, 2011
Members of collecting societies across Europe are heading to Luxembourg this week to tell Europe’s General Court why they should not be forced to offer cross-border services for collecting and distributing royalties for music
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March 23, 2011
In Europe, Google is likely to adopt an opt-in approach to digitisation, as indicated in its deal with French publisher Hachette Livre last year
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March 15, 2011
Companies must pay fair compensation in at least one member state when selling blank disks in the EU, according the Court of Justice’s Advocate General
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October 01, 2010
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September 08, 2010
The decision to force YouTube to compensate IP owners whose work appears on the site without their permission could create big problems for the company in Germany, lawyers say
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June 07, 2010
Germany’s highest court has boosted copyright owners in a ruling that clarifies liability for IP infringement in user-generated content on the web
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June 04, 2010
Perfume maker Coty Prestige has welcomed a judgment that will allow it to stop the unauthorised sale of testers in Europe
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June 04, 2010
Fifteen trade mark users’ groups will have an opportunity to explain their priorities for European trade mark reform next Tuesday
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May 12, 2010
The EU’s General Court has overturned an OHIM Board of Appeal finding, in its second decision on a registered Community design
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May 05, 2010
File-sharing site RapidShare has won an appeal against an injunction imposed by a German court, which prevented it hosting some Capelight Pictures movies
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April 26, 2010
Germany’s top court has confirmed that a Microsoft patent over file names is valid, overturning a decision of the Federal Patent Court
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March 01, 2010
File-hosting site RapidShare intends to appeal an injunction from a German court banning certain content from a group of publishers from being uploaded