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  • Optus loses mobile TV case in Australia

    May 02, 2012

    The Australian Full Federal Court has found that Optus’s TV Now service, which streamed over-the-air television to customers’ mobiles, infringed the AFL and NRL’s copyrights

  • Asia-Pacific marks World IP Day

    April 26, 2012

    The Asia-Pacific region is the first to celebrate World IP Day. Peter Leung in Hong Kong rounds up some of the activities

  • Siemens fails to stop infringer shifting sites

    April 24, 2012

    Siemens succeeded in having the domain name siemensit.org transferred to it in a recent WIPO case, but failed with siemitglobal.com

  • Copyright enforcement in Australia after iiNET

    April 20, 2012

    IP practitioners’ reaction to the AFACT v iiNET decision reflects concern over its impact on copyright enforcement in Australia

  • Rights holders suffer setback in battle against ISPs

    April 20, 2012

    In a unanimous ruling today, the Australian High Court found that service provider iiNET did not authorise users’ infringement despite not acting on notices of infringement from copyright holders

  • Australian football wants gTLD to protect IP

    April 19, 2012

    The Australian Football League has said that its application for .afl was motivated by IP protection, and some marketing opportunities

  • eDreams loses .au dispute

    April 11, 2012

    A Spanish travel agency has lost another in a series of cases over domain names, this time under the .au Dispute Resolution Policy

  • Google’s AdWords programme ruled “misleading”

    April 04, 2012

    An Australian appeal court has ruled that Google’s AdWord programme misleads and deceives consumers and ordered the company to change its system

  • IP news quiz, March 12 to 16

    March 16, 2012

    Test your knowledge of IP news with our five quick questions on the past week’s developments

  • StarHub is fourth company to apply for .brand

    February 02, 2012

    An Asian telecoms company is now only the fourth brand owner to publicly declare an intention to apply for a new gTLD after saying yesterday that it wants .starhub

  • Optus wins TV copyright battle

    February 02, 2012

    The Federal Court’s controversial decision in favour of Optus has created uncertainty over the future of mobile rights in Australia

  • Managing IP Global Awards 2012 – shortlists revealed

    January 27, 2012

    Free access: The nominations for Managing IP’s Global Awards 2012 have been announced

  • The Managing IP quiz of 2011

    December 15, 2011

    Win a free place at a Managing IP meeting of your choice in 2012 by answering our 20 questions on developments in the past year

  • High Court begins to hear iiNet v AFACT

    December 01, 2011

    A Canberra court room is hearing the final arguments this week in a long-running copyright dispute that could set out what ISPs need to do to avoid an accusation of authorising infringement

  • Aussie ISPs give helping hand to rights holders

    November 29, 2011

    Copyright owners in Australia may be given the power to warn consumers who are suspected of downloading illegally and could even access their personal details before taking court action

  • Ericsson calls for file-sharing debate

    November 18, 2011

    Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson has published an opinion paper in Australia that reveals the extent of the disagreements there between copyright owners and internet service providers over online enforcement

  • Speedo swims to victory over blogger

    November 07, 2011

    Speedo was so concerned about its clean reputation in Australia that it went to court to shut down a blogger who was using its brands on salacious websites, and last week won a wide-ranging order

  • Global awards 2011 – full list of winners

    April 07, 2011

    Managing IP presented more than 60 awards to the leading firms in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America at the annual global awards dinner in London last night. Here are the winners:

  • Film companies lose online liability case in Australia

    February 28, 2011

    The Full Federal Court of Australia has found that an Australian internet service provider did not authorise copyright infringement carried out by its customers in a case that is now likely to be appealed to the High Court

  • Groupon’s Australian brand battle

    February 28, 2011

    A trade mark dispute has led US group-buying website Groupon to launch in Australia under the name Stardeals

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