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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.

At the end of the first quarter of 2011 there were more than 209.8 million domain name registrations, according to a report published by VeriSign

Though Budweiser was the official beer company sponsor of the 2010 World Cup, it was rival Bavaria that got all the attention.

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.

In Alliance Property Group v Alliance Group (March 14 2011), the South African Supreme Court of Appeal upheld an appeal from Alliance Property Group, ruling that Alliance Group Limited was passing its business off as being associated with that of Alliance Property Group.

Maastricht University is to host a roundtable discussion on IP rights, standards and innovation next month

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

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.

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.