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The European Directive On The Legal Protection Of Biotechnological Inventions: History, Implementation, And Lessons For Canada
White Papers Following a decade of depate and controversy, the Council of the European Union and the European parliament finally adopted the "Directive on the Legal Protection of Biotechnological Inventions (the Biotech Directive) on July 6, 1998.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
JBoss Offers Customers Legal Protection
News Typically, commercial software companies provide legal protection to their customers, said Bob Bickel, JBoss Group's vice president of strategy and corporate development. In an effort to offer the same guarantees as commercial software companies...
[November 17, 2003, 8:37]
Microsoft Widens Legal Protection
Talkback Is that a response to teams of small players preparing to sue MS? The other alternative, and not a mutually exclusive one at that, would be that there are some anti-competitive clauses in the OEM contract to exclude the established embedded systems.
[February 10, 2006, 10:48]
Microsoft Widens Legal Protection
News Microsoft said on Thursday it will expand the legal protections it offers device makers that create products using its Windows Mobile and Window Embedded operating systems. Under the new program, the indemnification for those products will more...
[February 10, 2006, 8:50]
Torvalds Gets Legal Protection Force
News OSDL has agreed to fund legal representation for Torvalds and any other employees of the lab who may become involved in the litigation," the consortium said in a statement it planned to release on Friday.
[November 14, 2003, 10:05]
ISPs Win Crucial Legal Protections
News Internet service providers and network operators in the UK have won protection from legal action over content held on, or passing through, their networks. Measures providing the protection are contained in the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive...
[August 14, 2002, 10:48]
Microsoft's IP Indemnification Praised
News Microsoft is touting a new study that points out that the software maker offers customers more legal protection against intellectual property claims than that given by open source rivals. In November, Microsoft extended its legal protection to...
[February 10, 2005, 8:55]
Microsoft Beefs Up Protection For PC Makers
News Microsoft is again expanding the amount of legal protection it offers partners, adding coverage for trade secrets claims as well as partial indemnification for smaller computer makers. Under new changes expected to be announced on Thursday...
[June 23, 2005, 9:40]
Microsoft's New Weapon Against Linux Questioned
News Microsoft's latest defence of the Windows in which its chief executive Steve Ballmer claimed it provides better protection against legal action over patent violations than its open-source rivals, has been questioned by a legal expert.
[November 1, 2004, 15:54]
Sun To Boost Solaris' Firepower Against Linux
News When Sun releases Solaris as open-source software, it plans to provide legal protection from patent-infringement suits to outsiders using or developing the operating system -- one of several ways Sun hopes to make Solaris more competitive with Linux.
[November 18, 2004, 15:20]
Novell Offers Linux Protection, As SuSE Deal Completed
News Novell expects this week to begin offering SuSE Linux customers some legal protection for using the open-source operating system, marking the fourth legal umbrella provided by a computing industry grappling with legal threats brought by the SCO...
[January 13, 2004, 7:25]
How Tripwire Supports Standards Set By The BS7799 / ISO17799
White Papers There are a lot of changes underway in the areas of information security, legal issues in computing and legislation for information handling and protection in healthcare and other industries. In the healthcare industry, the Health Insurance...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Microsoft: IP Indemnification 'does Include Damages'
News Microsoft has clarified its IP indemnification policy, saying that it will indemnify claimants against damages as well as just legal costs, but some legal observers say the company still needs to spell out the small print on the protection it is...
[November 4, 2004, 14:03]
Chatroom Danger: Britain Breaks UN Pledge To Protect Kids Online
News Britain is in breach of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child by failing to provide proper protection to children online, according to legal experts. The UN Convention declares children should have access to all forms of mass...
[March 15, 2001, 12:40]
Napster Clone Seeks Court Protection
News File-swapping and instant messaging company Aimster has opened a new front in the online music wars, asking for court protection against the record industry in a pre-emptive legal strike. In that case, Napster has consistently lost its attempts to...
[May 3, 2001, 8:16]
UK Launches 'Euro-DMCA' Debate
News Significant changes include new legal protection for digital watermarks, copy protection systems and other technological measures used to protect copyright material online. Under Article 6 of the Directive, the UK and other member states of the EU...
[August 12, 2002, 11:29]
Aussie Court Backtracks On Mod Chips
News Justice Sackville found that the technology that the mod chips disable could not be classed as a copy protection measure as it also prevented legal activity such as playing back-up copies of legally acquired games.
[July 31, 2003, 16:19]
IT Managers Failing Legal Test
News The legal side of the business might pick up on data protection but does the IT department implement it in the same way," he added. Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Financial Services Authority regulations, as well as legislation such as the Data Protection...
[May 5, 2005, 9:45]
Treaty Casts Shadow On Public Domain
News Jamie Love, who works for the Ralph Nader-affiliated Consumer Project on Technology, says the treaty is worrying because it creates an additional legal protection for works in the public domain that are Webcast.
[November 7, 2003, 14:50]
UK Police Ask For Traffic Data From ISPs
News Under current data protection principles, traffic data can only be retained for 30 days -- the current legal period deemed acceptable for billing purposes. The Data Protection Act usually prevents ISPs from retaining data about their customers...
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