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asked for helpful data concerning TV programme format rights. He has directly been literally deluged amongst helpful emails from loads of readers. In the fullness of fourth dimension he volition personally admit all responses but, inwards the meantime, he says a generalised "thank you" to all who answered the call.

Comments on IPKat blogs

is happy to have comments on his musings, which is why he has activated the "Comments" facility at the halt of each posting. He doesn't think, though, that this facility is the correct house for people to advertise their goods together with services. This morn he deleted a comment that consisted of an promotion for a commercial production aimed at individuals who desire to file their ain U.S.A. patent applications. feels that this is an abuse of the Comment facility together with hopes that potential free-riders volition at to the lowest degree bring the courtesy to inquire earlier seeking to distribute commercial content costless of charge.

Fighting IP criminal offence ... it's NIPER!

Here's a U.K. Patent Office press issue announcing the publication last calendar week of the National Intellectual Property Enforcement Report for 2005 (NIPER for short). says it makes depressing reading for IP owners together with legitimate businesses: he feels the psyche argue that word together with enforcement figures bring improved is that there's directly then much infringement that yous tin hardly fille it. Merpel agrees: this is a have out which, without amount back upwardly from government, the courts together with - most importantly - the public, nosotros can't win. But nosotros can't quit either.

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Here’s i to sentinel out for. The Register reports on the latest phase of the Australian representative brought yesteryear Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) against Sharman Industries, the rear companionship of Kazaa. Sharman is claiming that for sure testify obtained yesteryear the MIPI from Sharman’s premises yesteryear agency of an Anton Piller order should travel declared inadmissible. It’s contention that the raids breached the Australian Telecommunications Act. It claims that MIPI took "communications" from Sharman's routers earlier they were relayed to the company's computers, reverse to the Act’s prohibition on the interception of a "communication" passing through a telecoms system. However, Judge Wilcox wasn’t impressed yesteryear this declaration in addition to fixed 29 Nov 2004 equally the trial date, though the parties volition travel going dorsum to courtroom on xvi July to written report on whether they accept sorted out their disagre

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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

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It's The Wtmr Again

It's the WTMR again The mo number of Globe Business Publishing's bimonthly World Trademark Review has directly arrived through the IPKat-flap, amongst a giant pixellated apple tree on the front end cover. Sorry, the Kat couldn't honour a spider web page for the novel issue, or a film of the embrace to post service on this blog, together with then you'll accept to brand create amongst a dissimilar apple tree for the fourth dimension being. It's a skilful issue, though. 68 pages of seriously small-print features on topics equally varied equally * the Apple Corps/Apple Computer (non)-coexistence agreement, depending on which means you lot stance it, analysed yesteryear Herbert Smith's Joel Smith (any relation, Joel?) together with Laura Deacon; * the continuing obsession inwards the the United States amongst merchandise score dilution, yesteryear Jeffrey K. Riffer together with Brian M. Yates ( Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro , Los Angeles); Left: Globe Publish

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