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EC announcement heats up SME debate
Days after the US House of Representatives became a centre of criticism over the effects of US patent law on small businesses (click here for IP Review Online’s coverage), a similar scenario has ar....  »
Crunch time for Apple over EC claims
One day after a watershed announcement in which EMI agreed to remove digital rights management (DRM) locks from its songs sold on Apple’s iTunes, Apple itself received a European Commission (EC) S....  »
OC marks man a marked man?
California resident Joseph Lewis Aguirre has raised eyebrows in the Orange County area by trademarking 15 local place names, it emerged on 2 April...  »
Small firms speak out on US patent law
On 29 March, the US small business community took the floor of the House to criticise what it regards as restrictive patent laws....  »
WIPO Symposium pledges to educate
On 28 March, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) unveiled the fruit of its International Symposium on Intellectual Property Academies, which took place last week in Rio de Janeiro...  »
ICANN: New site online - and new sites on-side
This week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) launched a reformatted website that will help its users and associates to keep better track of its policies, procedures and d....  »
Singapore honours namesake Treaty
On 27 March, Singapore became the first country to ratify a World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) trademark treaty that, last year, was named in the nation’s honour....  »
EC strikes at Irish patent proviso
The European Commission has stirred controversy by asking the Irish government to cancel a fundamental proviso in its IP law, it emerged over the weekend....  »
Tech giants bond in patent pact
In a move that will be warmly received by the world’s IT community, Microsoft and Fuji Xerox unveiled a cross-licensing deal on 22 March, in which the firms will have access to each other’s pate....  »
BREIN battles Euro web pirates
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) announced on 21 March that Dutch anti-piracy group, BREIN, has successfully triggered the take-down of illegal peer-to-peer (p2p) si....  »