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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
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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
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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
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April 20, 2012
IP practitioners’ reaction to the AFACT v iiNET decision reflects concern over its impact on copyright enforcement in Australia
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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
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April 19, 2012
The Australian Football League has said that its application for .afl was motivated by IP protection, and some marketing opportunities
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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
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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
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March 16, 2012
Test your knowledge of IP news with our five quick questions on the past week’s developments
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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
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February 02, 2012
The Federal Court’s controversial decision in favour of Optus has created uncertainty over the future of mobile rights in Australia
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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February 28, 2011
A trade mark dispute has led US group-buying website Groupon to launch in Australia under the name Stardeals