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Government body says developing countries need open source
News In its report, called Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy, the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights will encourage developing countries to take a stand against unfair copyright measures affecting online media, and...
[September 13, 2002, 10:19]
Making IP infringement a crime
News The Commission claimed that the proposed measures were merely "to align national criminal law", but some are concerned that the law will go much further and jeopardise open source developers, file sharers and companies using software that...
[August 1, 2005, 17:30]
FFII slams EC taskforce over software patents
News A software development pressure group has slated a report published this week by the European Commission ICT Taskforce into intellectual property rights, saying it wrongly promotes software patents. The Foundation for a Free Information...
[November 29, 2006, 13:48]
Intel's response to FTC administrative complaint
News By its administrative complaint, the Commission apparently questions whether Intel has the legal right to assert its intellectual property rights as a defense to an attack on its core microprocessor business.
[June 9, 1998, 17:20]
A Year Ago: Intel's response to FTC administrative complaint
News By its administrative complaint, the Commission apparently questions whether Intel has the legal right to assert its intellectual property rights as a defense to an attack on its core microprocessor business.
[June 8, 1999, 6:33]
EU votes against disconnecting file-sharers
News The other, which passed with a much thinner majority, specifically called for the Commission to "rethink the issue of intellectual property in order to assure solutions that are equitable for both big and small actors and strike a balance between...
[April 11, 2008, 12:45]
EC plans more funding for tech research
News The idea of an European Community-wide patent system was last raised in July 2008, when the Commission laid out its intellectual-property strategy. It argued that the European intellectual-property system would be improved by helping technology...
[March 13, 2009, 15:33]
EU considers changes to IP enforcement
News A new EU proposal for harmonising intellectual property law enforcement across member states has come under criticism from the first parliamentary committee to review it, which has suggested that the proposal may need to be modified to better...
[May 16, 2003, 16:06]
Intel, AMD spar over patent-licensing dispute
News AMD, in its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, said Intel sent it a letter that alleges AMD "committed a material breach of the cross-licence through the creation of the company's Globalfoundries joint venture and...
[March 17, 2009, 7:22]
'DMCA on steroids' heads for Euro Parliament
News Intellectual property: Enforcing the rights, measures and procedures", known as the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive, is primarily aimed at cracking down on organised piracy and counterfeiting in the EU, but critics say its...
[February 19, 2004, 20:39]
Microsoft vs EC: The story so far
News The Commission is seeking to make new law that will have an adverse impact on intellectual property rights and the ability of dominant firms to innovate," Microsoft said. It then started another lawsuit, claiming that the EC was violating its...
[April 24, 2006, 13:20]
Unix contract sheds light on Novell-SCO dispute
News SCO claims the agreement gives it the intellectual property rights to Unix, which it then claims were illegally copied into Linux. The question is, even though (Novell) didn't assign the intellectual property (to SCO), did (Novell) assign the...
[June 5, 2003, 7:28]
Music industry attacks EU copyright proposal
News The EU said that the proposal aims to create a "level playing field" across all member states, "especially in those countries where the enforcement of intellectual property rights is currently weakest.
[February 3, 2003, 13:11]
'Dubious' patents may be easier to challenge
News The FTC report stressed that overlapping patents have created a "thicket" of intellectual-property rights that poses particular problems for technology firms. Speaking to the annual gathering of the American Intellectual Property Law Association in...
[October 31, 2003, 8:00]
Judge dreads software patents
News Sir Robin Jacob, a judge at the Court of Appeal who specialises in intellectual-property (IP) law, has questioned whether patents should be granted for software. One is detecting public disquiet in a number of areas of intellectual property, asking...
[January 13, 2006, 16:00]
Microsoft pushes for single global patent system
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation is planning to hold a conference on global enforcement of intellectual property rights in Geneva on the 17th and 18th of September. A senior lawyer at Microsoft is calling for the creation of a global...
[September 2, 2009, 16:03]
Taiwan: MS may have violated trade laws
News If Microsoft pressures schools to pay exorbitant fees on the premise of protecting intellectual property rights, the association will lobby international teachers' groups to boycott Microsoft products," said Chang Hui-shan, National Teachers...
[May 8, 2002, 9:05]
Broadcom warns Bush over Qualcomm chip veto
News Overturning the ITC's remedy for Qualcomm's patent infringement would ultimately make it more difficult for US companies to defend their IP [intellectual property] rights and complicate the administration's IP policy initiatives.
[July 9, 2007, 14:33]
EC: New net-neutrality law is unnecessary
News Reacting on Thursday, the Commission said "the right balance between the need to protect intellectual-property rights and important fundamental rights such as freedom of expression and freedom of information can be found already in each of the...
[June 12, 2009, 16:17]
UK to probe 'patent thickets'
News Gowers, a former editor of the Financial Times, was chosen by the government late last year to lead an independent review into intellectual-property rights in the UK. Andrew Gowers, the man leading a wide-ranging review into the UK's intellectual...
[March 2, 2006, 11:45]
