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Top 10 Intellectual Property Headlines from All Regions The recent High Court ruling in G and G v Wikimedia Foundation Inc [2009] serves as a warning to any applicants for interim injunctions who may seek to rely on derogations from the open justice principle. An amendment to the Copyright Act that grants copyright protection to various foreign works that were previously in the public domain in the United States is not violative of the First Amendment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled. A unanimous decision is not always what it seems. On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld without dissent the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s ruling that a patent application for hedging against price changes was not patentable. On the last day of its October 2009 term and more than seven months after hearing oral arguments in In re Bilski, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in the case. A federal court recently held that Google's auctioning of Rosetta Stone's trademarks as triggers for paid advertisements — and the use of those trademarks within the advertisements — creates no likelihood of confusion and therefore does not infringe. Patenting generally offers a superior means for legally protecting most inventions It’s said that those who don’t learn from their mistakes are bound to repeat them. Over the author’s years of practice in negotiating license agreements and mediating, arbitrating, or litigating disputes involving them, the same types of provisions seem to cause a disproportionate amount of the trouble. In its 2008 decision in Omega v. Costco, the Ninth Circuit held that the "first-sale" doctrine of copyright law does not apply to goods manufactured and first sold abroad. According to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, venture capital (VC) investing hit a five-year high in 2006, with $25.5 billion invested. Google’s AdWords service is a helpful tool in getting your business name to the top of the Google listings when the search facility is used. |
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