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Trade agreement has domain name dispute language
News The draft text of the Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement released this week proposes requiring operators of country-code top level domain names in signatory countries to adopt a controversial system for settling trademark disputes over...
[July 9, 2001, 12:15]
EU seeks overhaul of global IT trade pact
News The European Commission has proposed a revision of the Information Technology Agreement, a trade pact that for the past decade has helped keep down prices for IT-related goods across the world. The ITA remains a milestone duty-free agreement," said...
[September 16, 2008, 17:27]
Singapore signs up to US copyright law
News On Tuesday, the US and Singapore signed a trade agreement that affirms both nations' commitment to punishing people who bypass copy-protection technologies -- such as those used in most DVDs, a small number of CDs and some computer software.
[May 7, 2003, 11:43]
US exports DMCA in trade treaty
News Congress is being asked to approve a trade agreement with Chile that would export a controversial US law: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In May, the United States and Singapore signed a free-trade agreement (FTA) with nearly identical...
[July 16, 2003, 14:12]
Teleworkers get new employment safeguards
News Four and a half million teleworkers in the European Union will have greater security, while keeping their flexibility, as a result of a consultation process between European employers and trade unions.
[July 18, 2002, 14:50]
US Report: America pushes no-Net-tax plan
News Trade diplomats said the U.S.stance was set out by Washington's ambassador to the WTO, Rita Hayes, at an informal session of the body's ruling General Council after Canada had proposed an interim agreement on the issue.
[April 27, 1998, 9:54]
Wine development stifled by software patent
Talkback I haven't looked into the claim myself, but looking at the US-Australia 'free trade' agreement, Australia essentially has to support software patents and guess who's got a big say in what the WTO says?
[May 14, 2005, 15:33]
Papermaster settles with IBM, sets Apple start date
News IBM had sued Papermaster for allegedly violating the terms of a non-compete agreement in agreeing to join Apple as senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering, claiming Papermaster would be in a position to divulge important IBM trade...
[January 28, 2009, 7:32]
Mandatory open source 'too risky' for Australia
News Pearce also attacked the Australian Labor Party's (ALP) spokesperson on IT, Senator Kate Lundy, over her raising of intellectual property concerns involving the free trade agreement with the United States.
[September 6, 2004, 11:20]
UK signs up to international anti-spam agreement
News The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) have joined forces with the US Federal Trade Commission, the UK Department of Trade and Industry, the UK Information Commissioner and the...
[July 5, 2004, 10:40]
EMC and Hitachi agree to cross-license patents
News EMC also asked the International Trade Commission to block the importation of the HDS software. The trade commission proceeding was scheduled to begin next week. The five-year agreement calls for cross-licensing of their intellectual property and...
[March 4, 2003, 14:54]
Linux Australia trademark battle takes new twist
News While Openera conceded that the trademark application was unlikely to succeed, it claims that without control over it, the company's ability to trade is in danger. We've not been able to resolve the [situation] with Linux Australia Inc, but at no...
[September 23, 2004, 9:40]
Symantec sues Microsoft over storage tech
News Symantec has launched a suit charging Microsoft with misappropriating its trade secrets and source code and with violating a licence related to data storage technology. They have used our intellectual property in terms of trade secrets and source...
[May 19, 2006, 9:10]
SCO wants $5bn from IBM
News The amended suit drops earlier allegations that IBM had misappropriated SCO trade secrets through its Linux development efforts, a substantial feature of the original complaint. An IBM representative said the new claims and the jettisoning of the...
[February 9, 2004, 7:15]
IBM: Our Unix licence is irrevocable
News SCO, inheritor of many of the rights to the Unix operating system initially developed by AT&T, filed a billion-dollar lawsuit on Thursday alleging IBM violated its trade secrets by implementing ideas from Unix in the open-source Linux operating...
[March 11, 2003, 13:00]
Developing the all-important confidentiality policy
News Most companies safeguard sensitive trade secrets with confidentiality agreements -- but many of these agreements aren't as comprehensive as they need to be. There's always a danger that a new employee will bring trade secrets with them from their...
[January 13, 2003, 14:24]
Microsoft to Oracle: Cease and desist
News Trade-show keynote speeches are a sure soapbox for vendors to dis their competitors. Microsoft's lawyers sent us a letter threatening to sue us," Ellison told the trade-show audience. But the letter didn't stop Ellison from reiterating that claim...
[October 27, 2000, 8:32]
Microsoft suit alleges ex-worker stole trade secrets
News Microsoft has sued a former employee for allegedly lying when he applied for a job there and stealing trade secrets that were later used in a lawsuit against Microsoft partners.Update: 18 Nov 2009: The case has been settled out of court.
[February 2, 2009, 16:43]
Tech companies broadside anti-piracy plan
News This legislation would be an unwarranted intrusion by the government into the commercial marketplace," said Ken Kay, executive director of the Computer Systems Policy Project, a trade group that includes IBM, Intel, Dell Computer, Motorola and...
[October 23, 2001, 8:59]
Durusau's proposal is preposterous
Talkback The Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade is all about eliminating unnecessary obstacles to international trade by eliminating incompatible standards with duplicate functionality. Agreement Article 2 section 2.6:
[February 29, 2008, 18:25]
