Natalie Hickey
Answers to our World IP Day quiz
4 May 2011
Last week we challenged our readers to guess the brands in our World IP Day quiz.
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How many brands can you name?
27 April 2011
Did you know that yesterday was World Intellectual Property Day?
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Is the EU a “Community”? Forum shopping and database rights
5 April 2011
Football Dataco and The Scottish Premier League are presently locked in litigation against Sportrader GmbH (a German company) and Sportrader AG (a Swiss company).
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Books without Borders: UPDATE
17 February 2011
Earlier this week, we reported on the imminent bankruptcy of Borders USA, distinguishing it from the REDGroup, which owns Borders Australia.
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Books without Borders – Has the Internet killed off the giant bookseller?
15 February 2011
In the film You’ve Got Mail, Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) espouses to Kathleen (Meg Ryan) the benefits of Fox Books, a chain store similar to Borders, and then watches as her independent book store goes under, whilst his mega-chain – and their romance – flourishes.
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Willy the Wizard fails first leg of Triwizard Tournament: US case dismissed
11 January 2011
As readers will know, we’ve been following the copyright cases brought by the Estate of Adrian Jacobs (Paul Allen) against J K Rowling and her publishers in the United Kingdom and, more recently, in the United States.
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Merry Christmas on behalf of Mallesons IP Whiteboard
23 December 2010
In 2010, the Mallesons IP Whiteboard (like all IP nerds) relished the opportunity to critique and discuss a huge range of IP related topics and stories.
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Music on Hold: Federal Court overturns decision to increase fitness class music fees
14 December 2010
In May, we reported on the Copyright Tribunal’s decision to increase the licence fees paid to the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA) for music in group fitness classes: http://blogs.mallesons.com/ipwhiteboard/ppca-flexes-music-muscles Today, the Federal Court set aside this decision, on the basis that it lacked procedural fairness, and has remitted the matter back to the Copyright Tribunal for a re-determination.
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Bottle Wars – Titans clash in Coke / Pepsi dispute over shape mark
26 October 2010
Coca-Cola’s trade mark for its classic bottle shape has long been ‘the’ talisman example of how a shape can be registered if it is sufficiently distinctive.
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