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May 15, 2012
The Philippines' decision to join the Madrid Agreement will be good for businesses, says Blancaflor, in an exclusive interview. Law firms need to realise that their clients pull the strings
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May 15, 2012
Rosa Wilkinson joined the IPO in September last year after working with UK Trade and Investment and Lloyds Bank, where she served as director of public policy and regulation. She tells Emma Barraclough about her IP role
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May 14, 2012
This week’s IP quiz questions all relate to last week’s INTA Annual Meeting in Washington DC. How many can you answer?
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May 14, 2012
Managing IP lists the IP conferences, decisions and meetings taking place this week
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May 09, 2012
“Who has downloaded music?” asked Christopher Robertson of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “I promise I’m not going to take any names.” At this, nearly everyone raised a hand. The better question, perhaps, was who hadn’t illegally downloaded music.
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May 09, 2012
Computer programs cannot be protected by copyright under the EU’s Software Directive, but could be eligible for protection under other European laws
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May 08, 2012
In 2000, a bookstore owner in the UK found a poster in the shop with the words “Keep Calm and Carry On.” The owner hung it in the store and, when customers inquired about it, began selling copies. Since then, the phrase and the lone graphic—the crown of King George VI—have become iconic. Others have even registered the phrase as a trademark.
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May 08, 2012
Julie Alexa Strauss of Feld Entertainment describes her love of live entertainment, the battle to enforce trademark rights, and why she wants outside counsel to understand her business.
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May 08, 2012
Events organizers need to stay one step ahead of ambush marketers if they want to protect their brands and keep their sponsors happy. Emma Barraclough explains how they are meeting the challenges of the social media revolution.
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May 08, 2012
In advance of today’s session on trademarks and publicity rights, Karen Bolipata looks at the evolution of the law on the use of brands and celebrities in expressive works.
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May 07, 2012
A US jury has found that Google infringed “the overall structure, sequence and organization” of 37 of Oracle’s copyrighted Application Programming Interface (API) packages
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May 07, 2012
Malaysia has boosted the protection it offers copyright owners by creating a DMCA-style safe harbour provision for ISPs and content aggregators such as YouTube
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May 07, 2012
With IP issues front and center in Congress, attorneys need to know when their stance on a particular topic may be crossing the line into the highly regulated world of lobbying. Eileen McDermott and Patrick Ross explain.
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May 02, 2012
Europe’s highest court has ruled that the functionality of a computer program and the programming language cannot be protected by copyright
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May 02, 2012
The Optus decision in Australia was unfortunately narrow, leaving many questions unanswered. Are the courts signalling that legislation is needed?
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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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May 01, 2012
The US government has published its annual list naming and shaming countries that it claims have failed to protect the IP rights of its citizens and companies
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April 30, 2012
Copyright owners and the businesses that offer digital content services face a problem: how to identify, organise and license the rights involved. An industry initiative hopes to help
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April 30, 2012
The High Court in London has ordered five ISPs to block access to file-sharing website The Pirate Bay
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April 30, 2012
Toshiaki Iimura, one of the most experienced IP judges in Japan, has been appointed chief judge of the IP High Court in Tokyo
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April 30, 2012
Managing IP lists the IP decisions, conferences and events to watch out for this week
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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 27, 2012
The implementation of the Digital Economy Act in the UK has been pushed back to 2014 at the earliest because secondary legislation needs to be amended
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April 27, 2012
The UK's IP minister reaffirmed the country's support for a unitary patent at an event to mark World IP Day yesterday
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April 26, 2012
Ideas Matter, a new industry association that aims to improve awareness of IP, was launched today in Brussels by companies, inventors, OHIM and WIPO
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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 25, 2012
A legal adviser at Europe’s highest court says that creators of computer programs should be allowed to prevent people from selling so-called used licences that enable the programs to be downloaded from the internet again
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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 23, 2012
While the 2012 French presidential election is dominated by concerns about the economy, the candidates have also campaigned on ACTA, copyright rules and ways to get the country innovating
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April 23, 2012
Managing IP lists the IP meetings, conferences and decisions to watch out for this week
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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 Supreme People’s Court has released its Top 10 IP Cases of 2011, showing the country’s commitment to tackling online infringement
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April 18, 2012
The closely watched case will have a big impact on the responsibilities Australian ISPs have for the infringing acts of its users
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April 17, 2012
Statutory damages for infringement could be doubled, with triple damages for wilful and repeat infringers, under draft changes to China’s Copyright Law
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April 17, 2012
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear Supap Kirtsaeng v John Wiley & Sons, a case that addresses whether goods manufactured and purchased abroad are subject to the first sale doctrine
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April 13, 2012
This week's quiz questions cover gTLDs, UK IP policy, ACTA - and Jeremy Lin. How many can you answer?
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April 12, 2012
Judge Denny Chin wanted attendees of the Fordham IP China Conference to know two things: First, he is not an IP expert. Second, he is not a China expert
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April 12, 2012
An influential European politician has indicated that he will recommend that ACTA be rejected, making it increasingly unlikely that the Agreement will ever be implemented in Europe
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April 12, 2012
Things are moving again at WIPO. That was the clear message from IP negotiators speaking at the Fordham IP conference in New York
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April 12, 2012
Richard Hooper, the author of a report into digital licensing in the UK, wants to hear how digital copyright exchanges can be developed and improved
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April 11, 2012
The UK All-Party IP Group of MPs recently launched an inquiry into the role of government in protecting and promoting IP. James Nurton spoke to its vice-chair Pete Wishart about its aims, agenda and the risk of report overload
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April 11, 2012
A first-of-its-kind US government study released Wednesday concludes that intellectual property results in more than one-third of GDP and one-fourth of US jobs
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April 11, 2012
US authorities have seized nearly $900,000 from bank and PayPal accounts used to store the proceeds of counterfeit sportswear
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April 11, 2012
How can IP owners and regulators respond to the unprecedented attack on IP rights seen in the past few months?
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April 10, 2012
The next big challenge for the founder of file-sharing site Megaupload is fighting extradition from New Zealand to the United States. What are his chances?
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April 09, 2012
A US appeals court has reversed much of a district court’s ruling in favour of Google in a case that will help to shape the law around the use of trade marks as keywords and in sponsored ads
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April 06, 2012
The Second Circuit’s decision in Viacom v YouTube throws into doubt some assumptions internet service providers have operated under regarding liability for infringing content, one lawyer said
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April 06, 2012
The New York Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has reversed a district court’s finding of summary judgment for YouTube in the video site’s $1 billion battle with Viacom
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April 05, 2012
Internet companies and Hollywood faced off this week in friend of the court briefs filed in a case that could have major implications for how courts assess copyright infringement online
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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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April 05, 2012
File sharing company Megaupload, whose websites were shut down in January, is facing its first civil lawsuit - and lawyers predict more will be on the way
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April 03, 2012
A ruling from the English courts last week could limit the ability of copyright owners to issue so-called speculative invoices to people they believe have breached their IP rights online
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April 02, 2012
New York judge Colleen McMahon tells Karen Bolipata and a room full of judges why she went to law school, how she approaches patent cases, and why all judges need her invention, the e-Clerk
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April 02, 2012
Apple to protect a rectangle and EU agrees patent court venue? It must be April 1
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April 02, 2012
Managing IP has published its annual ranking of firms with specialist copyright practices, analysing the market in 21 jurisdictions
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April 02, 2012
Copyright owners and ISPs have until the end of this month to provide comments on the fee provision in New Zealand’s three-strikes law
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April 02, 2012
Managing IP’s round-up of the IP events, decisions and meetings taking place week beginning April 2