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news of the Court of Appeal determination inwards the Adlem case. Today the Telegraph reports that this case, which turns upon a funeral undertaker's entitlement to merchandise nether his ain name, volition live going to the House of Lords. This banking enterprise annotation gives to a greater extent than or less interesting background to the case.

Right: Sir Clement Atleee, one-time British Prime Minister in addition to ane of the celebrity burials conducted past times Richard Adlem inwards a career spanning to a greater extent than than forty years

2 Cut to the quick -- exactly sharp-witted knifemaker survives

 of the Court of Appeal determination inwards the  SUNDAY BESTThe Taipei Times reports on the scrap faced past times the companionship that makes Victorinox Swiss regular army knives to dice along its trouble organisation going later the horrors of xi September 2001. Remarkable construct extensions include a childrens' Swiss regular army knife, a blade-free air-travel version in addition to a knife alongside a USB port that allows you lot to link upward to your computer.

says, if anyone doubts that intellectual holding has an "intellectual" flavor to it, this floor should dispel those doubts.

3 Can't acre Google? You may live inwards for a surprise

This has come upward to the IPKat via his friend Andrea Glorioso.

An meshing arbitrator has awarded Google the rights to several website addresses that relied on typographical errors every bit a agency of exploiting the online search engine's popularity in addition to then that reckoner viruses in addition to other malicious software could live unleashed on unsuspecting visitors. The National Arbitration Forum sided alongside a Google electrical load alleging that Sergey Gridasov of St. Petersburg, Russia, had engaged inwards "typosquatting" past times operating websites named googkle.com, ghoogle.com in addition to gooigle.com. The determination of the arbitrator (pursuant to the UDRP) is available here.

 of the Court of Appeal determination inwards the  SUNDAY BESTNothing actually major here, says Andrea - the illustration was quite straightforward, in addition to I recollect this could live used every bit a didactics illustration of "bad faith". I establish this judgement rather interesting, though:
"The disputed domain names registered past times Respondent consist of typosquatted versions of Complainant's famous GOOGLE mark. Thus, Respondent is engaging inwards the practise of "typosquatting" past times taking payoff of a potential typographical fault made past times Internauts, intending to attain Complainant's website at the domain name, who inadvertently boom letters following on the touchstone English-language keyboard to to a greater extent than or less letters inwards Complainant's mark".
Should the panel direct keep considered too the "non-standard", "non-English-language" keyboard (which could direct keep a dissimilar fundamental layout, although I'm non certain at all) out there? Would something direct keep changed inwards the decision?

If you lot direct keep whatever brilliant ideas on this issue, contact Andrea here.

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