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WIPO has written a letter to Icann advising it against revising the UDRP.

Icann’s Board has held discussions with the GAC ahead of the scheduled publication of the final Applicant Guidebook for gTLDs on Monday

The G8 meeting in Paris is expected to release a call today for tighter regulation of the internet, including stronger privacy rights and rules on copyright piracy

Covington & Burling has added four life sciences partners to its London office, from Morrison & Foerster. Paul Claydon, Natalie Diep, James Gubbins and James Halstead have all joined a team that is spread across London and Brussels in Europe. They advise life sciences, technology and renewable energy industry clients on mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and follow-on financings, and private equity and venture capital transactions. The team has worked together for many years, and was ranked first for number of UK pharmaceutical M&A deals for four years from 2007 to 2010. Notable transactions including advising Acambis on the £276 million recommended takeover offer from Sanofi-Aventis, IS Pharma on the recommended merger with Sinclair Pharma and Liberum Capital on the AIM IPO by HaloSource.

The comment period for the latest draft of Icann's draft Applicant Guidebook for new generic top-level domains ended in May, one month after the draft was released. The 58 organisations to have sent in comments included INTA, MARQUES, WIPO, News Corporation, IBM, Time Warner and Microsoft.

The Belgian Court of Appeal has told Google that it infringes publishers' copyright by reproducing their headlines. The ruling confirms a 2007 first instance decision that supported the claims of Copiepresse, which represents French-language newspapers in Belgium. It claimed the way Google News reproduces headlines and article extracts in order to create a search engine for news infringed its copyright. Google claimed the system produced large benefits for the publishers and could be opted out of. The decision underlines the uncertainty around the interpretation of copyright around Europe. In January last year a Paris court ruled that Google did not break its copyright laws by reproducing thumbnail images of visual works. Other countries have followed similar interpretations of copyright. Google is likely to appeal to the Cour de Cassation in Belgium, the country's highest court and may then seek to refer the case to the Court of Justice of the EU.

The USPTO's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) has published the long-awaited third edition of its Trademark Board Manual of Procedure (TBMP), to the delight of US trade mark owners and practitioners.

Icann visited Interpol's general secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France this week for the first time.

TiVo and EchoStar settled their years-long patent dispute last month, just weeks after the Federal Circuit issued an en banc decision in the case. The two parties agreed to a $500 million settlement and licences that will enable the companies to work together.

The review of UK IP laws by Professor Ian Hargreaves (right) makes some useful recommendations on updating copyright rules, but its one big idea seems not to consider overlap with existing proposals.