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		<title>Trademarks: In Ate My Heart Inc. v Mind Candy Ltd and Moshi Music Ltd, Lady Gaga&apos;s company successfully sought an interim injuction on the basis of tr</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lady Gaga's company successfully sought an interim injunction on the basis of trade mark infringement to prevent the creators of the Moshi Monsters computer game from distributing a single performed by 'Lady Goo Goo', a character from the game....]]></description>
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		<title>Cybersquatting: In Petroliam Nasional Berhad v GoDaddy.com, Inc. the Judge addressed differing approaches in recent cybersquatting cases in the US.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Differing approaches in recent cybersquatting cases in the US, particularly Microsoft Corp v Shah Civil Action, leave questions as to how far domain name registrars are liable for claims of contributory cybersquatting....]]></description>
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		<title>Payments: In Cisero&apos;s v. U.S. Bank restaurant owners in the US filed a lawsuit against their bank, claiming that it wrongfully deducted monies to pay </title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Restaurant owners in the US filed a lawsuit against U.S. Bank, claiming that it wrongfully deducted monies to pay fees associated with alleged network security failures under the Payment Card Industry standards....]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright: A number of high profile court cases in the US mark the shift in approach from simply shutting down offending websites to inhibiting the fl</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Department of Justice closed down another large file-sharing website used to facilitate the infringement of copyright. A number of high profile court cases, mark the shift in approach from simply shutting down offending websites to inhibiting the f...]]></description>
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		<title>Market Dominance: A French court ordered Google to pay damages of andeuro;500,000 for abuse of its dominant position, compensating for losses caused b</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A French court ordered Google to pay damages of andeuro;500,000 for abuse of its dominant position, compensating for loss caused by Google's policy of providing companies access to its online mapping service, Google Maps, for free....]]></description>
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		<title>Trademarks: In OAO &apos;Alfa Bank&apos; v Alpha Bank AE, the High Court of Justice held that the similarity of registered trade marks OAO Alfa Bank and Alpha B</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The High Court of Justice held that the similarity of registered trade marks OAO Alfa Bank and Alpha Bank AE, in the recent appeal case, resulted in likelihood of confusion, despite concurrent trading and distinguishable services....]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright: In British Telecommunications Plc and another v Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, the Court of Appeal dismissed th</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Court of Appeal dismissed the latest challenge by BT and TalkTalk, on 6 March, as to the legitimacy of the Digital Economy Act 2010 regarding online copyright infringement....]]></description>
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		<title>Patents: In Omnipharm Ltd v Merial, the High Court of Justice found that what may be considered &apos;obvious to try&apos; does not necessarily mean a patent la</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The High Court of Justice found that what may be considered 'obvious to try' does not necessarily mean a patent lacks inventiveness, a number of factors need to be considered to ascertain whether an invention involves the essential inventive step, such as...]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright: In Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and others v British Telecommunications plc, the UK High Court ordered an internet service provid</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK High Court ordered an Internet Service Provider to block access to a file sharing website featuring infringing content, as an alternative to injuncting the website....]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 5 Apr 2012 23:06:37 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Defamation: In Jan Cambridge v Guillermo Makin, the High Court upheld the decision that the Defendant had acted with malice by deliberately sending ou</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The High Court upheld the decision that the Defendant had acted with malice by deliberately sending out an email with defamatory allegations he believed not to be true to several hundred of the Claimant's professional contacts....]]></description>
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		<title>Adwords: An evaluation of the key cases dealt with by the European and national courts that have shaped the current case law regarding the use of bran</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The use of brand names and trade marks as keywords in online advertising has been hotly disputed. Below is an evaluation of the key cases dealt with by the European and national courts that have shaped the current case law....]]></description>
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