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Something To Read This Weekend

July-August Copyright World The electrical flow termination of Informa's colourful Copyright World has only reached the IPKat. The comprehend story is Google v Rest of the World - at least, it must experience that means to the giant moneymaker every bit it seeks to induce got on a vast array of vested interests inwards mature markets as well as technologies amongst its controversial Library Project. bets that this topic volition attain saturation point, replacing fifty-fifty P2P filesharing every bit the boringly predictable PhD thesis topic that all candidates desire to write. Full listing of contents here . Merpel's Must-Read : "Into the Honey Trap?", where the Copyright Terminator meets Winnie the Pooh. July-August MIP The July-August termination of Euromoney's Managing Intellectual Property lists the 50 close influential IP personalities of the year. Alas, afterwards the excitement of making the listing concluding fourth dimension round, the IPKat has been
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Where Is Canada, Anyway?

Where is Canada, anyway? Yesterday the IPKat posted an exceptional almost the Canadian Mounties' pursuit of infringers of copyright inwards karaoke inwards Canada, together amongst photograph bearing the caption "The Mounties enforcing copyright inwards Canada". He - as well as other recipients of his electronic mail circulars - thence received the next complaint from a reader, Paul Jones (Jones & Co, Bay Street, Toronto): " should reckon a refresher course of teaching inwards jurisdiction as well as geography. The Mounties bring never had whatever jurisdiction inwards Alaska, which was kickoff a Russian as well as is forthwith an American territory. Perhaps it meant to write the Yukon or the Rockies?". Resisting the temptation to audio triumphalist, the IPKat is pleased to inform his readers that Alaska is indeed inwards Canada: it is a house inwards Prince Edward Island. You tin honour it past times visiting the Natural Resources of Canada Atlas site here

Japan Together With Canada

Picture from Tokyo #2 reports that the Mounties accept charged 2 Toronto businesses as well as their employees alongside renting out infringing copies of karaoke nether the Canadian Copyright Act. The Mounties enforcing copyright inwards Alaska is dreaming of horseback copyright enforcement…How did the GGs snuff it into the karaoke bar though? Favourite Mountie karaoke melody here

Guatemala Goes For Pct; Who Controls The Internet?

learn from WIPO's PCT Update 277 that Republic of Guatemala has immediately move the 133rd contracting nation of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), having duly deposited its musical instrument of accession. The Treaty volition acquire inwards into forcefulness for Republic of Guatemala on 14 Oct 2006 . Full listing of 133 PCT countries here PCT official text as well as information here Guatemala java manufacture inventions here Guatemala Baked Bananas here Who controls the Internet? Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World is a novel majority past times Jack Goldsmith as well as Tim Wu, published this summertime past times Oxford University Press. Both authors are of illustrious pedigree: Jack Goldsmith is Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law, Harvard University, field Tim Wu is Professor of Law inwards the Columbia Law School. The publisher writes : "Will cyberanarchy dominion the net? And if nosotros ambit discovery a means to regulate our cyberlife voliti

No Prophylactic Trend To Intermission Up; Latest Ecdr

No rubber agency to interruption up This morning time the IPKat carried a greenback on Scansafe Ltd 5 Messagelabs Ltd , a Chancery Division conclusion from Mr Justice Patten which was noted on Lawtel. has since received an electronic mail from solicitors acting on behalf of Scansafe, informing him that the Lawtel greenback erroneously stated that Scansafe's application for injunctive relief was dismissed. Lawtel has since withdrawn its greenback in addition to the IPKat, non wishing to mislead his readers, has removed his greenback on the example too. Latest ECDR Issue four of the Sweet & Maxwell bimonthly European Copyright in addition to Design Reports has at i time been published. Cases available inwards English linguistic communication inwards this lawsuit include * L'Oréal SA 5 Bellure NV (Cour d'appel de Paris), on the protection of scents inwards French Republic every bit authors' works; * PlayStation (Tribunal of Bolzano, Italy), on the seizure of modern

Domain Mention Data; No No Nova ...

[2006] EWCA Civ 1044 the Court of Appeal for England together with Wales (Lords Justices Waller, Jonathan Parker together with Jacob LJ) turned downwards an application to cite Nova Productions Ltd v Mazooma Games Ltd together with others (noted here by the IPKat) to the European Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling. This was because Nova's appeal against the decision of Mr Justice Kitchin could in all likelihood move determined without the quest for such a ruling. As Lord Justice Jacob indicated, whichever means a ruling mightiness go, Nova would in all likelihood nonetheless neglect to found infringement on the facts: either what was taken past times the accused was insubstantial or, if it were substantial, it was the taking of no to a greater extent than than an idea. If, next the hearing, the courtroom did determine to cite anything to the ECJ, it would move able to formulate its enquiry to a greater extent than just together with give its ain sentiment on the questions

Ipkat Inwards Japan; Ohim Opposition Guidelines

Picture from Tokyo #1 Changes to OHIM Opposition Guidelines The OHIM Examination Guidelines are beingness revised together with OHIM is inviting comments past times thirty September 2006. Six principal issues are upward for discussion: * procedural matters * identity * global assessment * similarity of goods together with services * similarity of signs * proof of use. reckons that it’s close fourth dimension that the Guidelines on dilution were revised too.