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Links on the LawPundit Main Page : (2) (i) The Law Blogroll - Blawgs Beginning with the Letter I
We have gone through our links on the LawPundit law blogroll to update URLs and to provide selected recent information about those linked websites or blogs. This posting covers Links on the LawPundit Main Page : (2) (i) The Law Blogroll - I:
i-legal.info out of the UK presents podcasts as legal advice audios from Fisher Jones Greenwood Solicitors. Their newest podcast discusses how the new Fraud Act will affect employees.
Immateriblog is a German blog by Matthias Spielkamp "über Immaterialgüter in der digitalen Welt" (immaterial goods in the digital world) and his most recent posting of March 9 announces the Online-Dossier zum Urheberrecht (An Online Dossier on Copyright Law)
at the BPB (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) (The Federal Agency for Civic Education) which "centres on promoting awareness for democracy and participation in politics". Except for that last linked "about" page, which is in English, the rest of the website is in German. See also generally for German copyright law in German language iRights.info and their blog Arbeit 2.0.
The blog IMPACT® "is brought to you by the Intellectual Property and Technology team at UK law firm Freeth Cartwright LLP based in the UK Science City of Nottingham". Via a posting at the Class 46 blog, they alert everyone having an Internet presence in Germany at their IMPACT® posting:
"German Courts have held that using a competitor company's name as a search engine keyword (e.g. Google's AdWords service) is lawful provided it's clear that the advert in question is for the advertiser's own products/services, not those of the competitor."
Class 46, an experimental site dedicated to European trade mark law and practice by friends and supporters of MARQUES, the Association of European Trade Mark Owners, writes:
"As court of appeal the Oberlandesgericht (OLG) Frankfurt am Main last week decided that using a competitor's trade mark as a keyword ("Adword") in an internet search engine does not amount to trade mark infringement, if the search result is clearly recognisable as an advertisement.
The OLG made it clear that it disagreed with other German courts which have treated metags and "Adwords" in an identical manner."
This is an important decision because Germany is a major player on the Internet, as illustrated by domain statistics released by DENIC and featured at Class 46. German .de domains rank second worldwide, only behind the first-ranked .com domains.
Class 46 also has some postings about German patent court decisions, for example regarding the color red.
We posted recently about the blog Indefensible at LawPundit and also did a book review.
InsideOutLegal Blog in New Zealand recently posted a "Grab bag of recent items with relevance to the legal profession".
Instapundit. We used Glenn Reynolds' blog name as a guide when we chose the LawPundit name. Instapundit is a famous, widely read blog, consisting of a collection of informative and witty, mostly short, often only one-line remarks plus links primarily to current events and especially political US news of the day.
Inter Alia is a legal research weblog recently posting on the new instant collaboration program Yakkle (instant messaging, voice, and desktop sharing) from Zenviva.net which is definitely a coming thing:
"[Y]ou can log in to Yakkle with your Gmail or Google Talk account settings. What sets Yakkle apart is its ability to share your desktop with others during the chat session."
The idea of Yakkle is a definitely a future winner for all kinds of long distance applications - just think of teaching. The teacher can see what the learner is doing and if necessary, make corrections or issue instructions using the learner's own screen, all in real time. There are fantastic possibilities.
Or imagine contract negotiations or other kinds of collaborative document work via long distance. The possibilities are enormous.
There is also a Yakkle blog - which is where we got this Yakkle video:
International Trade Law News by Douglas N. Jacobson of Strasburger & Price, LLP, Washington, D.C. had, for example, a recent posting on "Heritage Foundation Hosts Program on Dual-Use Export Controls With China".
Internet Cases points to an important case of first impression involving criminal harassment and MySpace (People v. Fernino, — N.Y.S.2d —-, 2008 WL 382348 (N.Y.City Crim.Ct. February 13, 2008), also discussed by Mike Fass in the New York Law Journal (MySpace 'Friend Request' Could Violate Protection Order). See also a UK case involving Facebook.
Internet Law - Copyright Law is a blog by Giovanni Maria Riccio who recently posted concerning a Bird & Bird case on trademarks, keywords and sponsored search results on Yahoo!:
"Landmark case clarifies law on keywords and sponsored search results
International law firm Bird & Bird together with Yahoo!'s In-house legal team successfully defended Yahoo! UK Ltd and its sister company, Overture Services Ltd (trading under the name "Yahoo! Search Marketing"), in a groundbreaking trade mark infringement case concerning keywords and sponsored search results. The English High Court decision handed down on 20 February 2008 determined that when Yahoo! Search Marketing matched search terms entered by users to keywords bid on by advertisers in order to display sponsored links, there was no use of a trade mark by the Defendants for the purposes of infringement."
IP Dragon 知識產權龍 has a recent posting on the upcoming third amendment of the 1984 Patent Law of China, previously amended in 1992 and 2000 (it looks like an 8-year interval is followed there as a matter of standard practice).
IP Info Blog (Contemporary Intellectual Property, Licensing and Information Law) by Raymond T. Nimmer has a recent posting about Licensing in the absence of intellectual property rights.
IPKat informs us that PPH experiment to go international, citing to a UK IPO press release, excerpted below:
"Patent Prosecution Highway to be extended to cover International Applications
Following a successful initial launch period, the scope of the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot agreements between the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO), the US Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) and the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) are to be extended.
The extended procedure is now in force for the PPH with the USPTO, whilst the extended procedure relating to the PPH with the JPO will come in to force on 25 March 2008.
The Patent Prosecution Highway allows patent applicants who have received an examination report from one of the relevant national intellectual property offices to request accelerated examination of a corresponding patent application filed in another relevant country."
I/P Updates reports on The Patenting Paradox:
"The Patenting Paradox, A game-based approach to improve patent management" by Arnaud GASNIER describes the tendency of many companies, research organizations and universities to patent more and more; but with little value is extracted from patents."
IPwar's in Australia reports that "IPAustralia has announced the beta release of its new, online patent searching tool AUSPAT beta ..." [link added by LawPundit]
Is that Legal. Guest blogger Shertaugh apologizes to Andrew Sullivan and rejects the divisive Clinton campaign.
IT Law in Ireland posts recently about Domain Name Registrars - The New Points of Control?
Permalink : Andis Kaulins : 3/13/2008 09:18:00 PM
Links on the LawPundit Main Page : (2) (i) The Law Blogroll - Blawgs Beginning with the Letter I
We have gone through our links on the LawPundit law blogroll to update URLs and to provide selected recent information about those linked websites or blogs. This posting covers Links on the LawPundit Main Page : (2) (i) The Law Blogroll - I:
i-legal.info out of the UK presents podcasts as legal advice audios from Fisher Jones Greenwood Solicitors. Their newest podcast discusses how the new Fraud Act will affect employees.
Immateriblog is a German blog by Matthias Spielkamp "über Immaterialgüter in der digitalen Welt" (immaterial goods in the digital world) and his most recent posting of March 9 announces the Online-Dossier zum Urheberrecht (An Online Dossier on Copyright Law)
Bild: dieSachbearbeiter.de, cc by-nc-nd/2.0/de
at the BPB (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) (The Federal Agency for Civic Education) which "centres on promoting awareness for democracy and participation in politics". Except for that last linked "about" page, which is in English, the rest of the website is in German. See also generally for German copyright law in German language iRights.info and their blog Arbeit 2.0.
The blog IMPACT® "is brought to you by the Intellectual Property and Technology team at UK law firm Freeth Cartwright LLP based in the UK Science City of Nottingham". Via a posting at the Class 46 blog, they alert everyone having an Internet presence in Germany at their IMPACT® posting:
"German Courts have held that using a competitor company's name as a search engine keyword (e.g. Google's AdWords service) is lawful provided it's clear that the advert in question is for the advertiser's own products/services, not those of the competitor."
Class 46, an experimental site dedicated to European trade mark law and practice by friends and supporters of MARQUES, the Association of European Trade Mark Owners, writes:
"As court of appeal the Oberlandesgericht (OLG) Frankfurt am Main last week decided that using a competitor's trade mark as a keyword ("Adword") in an internet search engine does not amount to trade mark infringement, if the search result is clearly recognisable as an advertisement.
The OLG made it clear that it disagreed with other German courts which have treated metags and "Adwords" in an identical manner."
This is an important decision because Germany is a major player on the Internet, as illustrated by domain statistics released by DENIC and featured at Class 46. German .de domains rank second worldwide, only behind the first-ranked .com domains.
Class 46 also has some postings about German patent court decisions, for example regarding the color red.
We posted recently about the blog Indefensible at LawPundit and also did a book review.
InsideOutLegal Blog in New Zealand recently posted a "Grab bag of recent items with relevance to the legal profession".
Instapundit. We used Glenn Reynolds' blog name as a guide when we chose the LawPundit name. Instapundit is a famous, widely read blog, consisting of a collection of informative and witty, mostly short, often only one-line remarks plus links primarily to current events and especially political US news of the day.
Inter Alia is a legal research weblog recently posting on the new instant collaboration program Yakkle (instant messaging, voice, and desktop sharing) from Zenviva.net which is definitely a coming thing:
"[Y]ou can log in to Yakkle with your Gmail or Google Talk account settings. What sets Yakkle apart is its ability to share your desktop with others during the chat session."
The idea of Yakkle is a definitely a future winner for all kinds of long distance applications - just think of teaching. The teacher can see what the learner is doing and if necessary, make corrections or issue instructions using the learner's own screen, all in real time. There are fantastic possibilities.
Or imagine contract negotiations or other kinds of collaborative document work via long distance. The possibilities are enormous.
There is also a Yakkle blog - which is where we got this Yakkle video:
Yakkle Video
International Trade Law News by Douglas N. Jacobson of Strasburger & Price, LLP, Washington, D.C. had, for example, a recent posting on "Heritage Foundation Hosts Program on Dual-Use Export Controls With China".
Internet Cases points to an important case of first impression involving criminal harassment and MySpace (People v. Fernino, — N.Y.S.2d —-, 2008 WL 382348 (N.Y.City Crim.Ct. February 13, 2008), also discussed by Mike Fass in the New York Law Journal (MySpace 'Friend Request' Could Violate Protection Order). See also a UK case involving Facebook.
Internet Law - Copyright Law is a blog by Giovanni Maria Riccio who recently posted concerning a Bird & Bird case on trademarks, keywords and sponsored search results on Yahoo!:
"Landmark case clarifies law on keywords and sponsored search results
International law firm Bird & Bird together with Yahoo!'s In-house legal team successfully defended Yahoo! UK Ltd and its sister company, Overture Services Ltd (trading under the name "Yahoo! Search Marketing"), in a groundbreaking trade mark infringement case concerning keywords and sponsored search results. The English High Court decision handed down on 20 February 2008 determined that when Yahoo! Search Marketing matched search terms entered by users to keywords bid on by advertisers in order to display sponsored links, there was no use of a trade mark by the Defendants for the purposes of infringement."
IP Dragon 知識產權龍 has a recent posting on the upcoming third amendment of the 1984 Patent Law of China, previously amended in 1992 and 2000 (it looks like an 8-year interval is followed there as a matter of standard practice).
IP Info Blog (Contemporary Intellectual Property, Licensing and Information Law) by Raymond T. Nimmer has a recent posting about Licensing in the absence of intellectual property rights.
IPKat informs us that PPH experiment to go international, citing to a UK IPO press release, excerpted below:
"Patent Prosecution Highway to be extended to cover International Applications
Following a successful initial launch period, the scope of the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot agreements between the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO), the US Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) and the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) are to be extended.
The extended procedure is now in force for the PPH with the USPTO, whilst the extended procedure relating to the PPH with the JPO will come in to force on 25 March 2008.
The Patent Prosecution Highway allows patent applicants who have received an examination report from one of the relevant national intellectual property offices to request accelerated examination of a corresponding patent application filed in another relevant country."
I/P Updates reports on The Patenting Paradox:
"The Patenting Paradox, A game-based approach to improve patent management" by Arnaud GASNIER describes the tendency of many companies, research organizations and universities to patent more and more; but with little value is extracted from patents."
IPwar's in Australia reports that "IPAustralia has announced the beta release of its new, online patent searching tool AUSPAT beta ..." [link added by LawPundit]
Is that Legal. Guest blogger Shertaugh apologizes to Andrew Sullivan and rejects the divisive Clinton campaign.
IT Law in Ireland posts recently about Domain Name Registrars - The New Points of Control?
Permalink : Andis Kaulins : 3/13/2008 09:18:00 PM
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