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1 6 March 2002


Features:

  • Domain Names - Renault UK ltd v Derivative Risks Evaluation Management ltd, in which Renault failed in their bid for summary judgement for passing off for the registration of vavavoom.com.

  • Trade Mark - America Online Inc v David Nasi in which AOL successfully obtained the transfer of domain names containing the trademarks of Microsoft and Sony as well as their own from a pornographic site

  • Domain Names - Radio Taxi Cabs (London) ltd v Owner Driver Radio Taxi Services ltd. In this High Court judgment the claimants failed to win their case for passing off.

  • Trespass - Oyster v Forms Processing Inc ND California raised once again the issue of trespass on the web. This report analyses the judgment and other US trespass cases and the potential for such arguments in the UK.

  • Copyright - Leslie A Kelly v Arriba Soft Co. The US Appeals Court case involved a search engine that reproduced the claimant’s photographs. The court agreed that thumbnail reproduction was fair use, larger scale it was not.

  • Online Liability - In The Chancellor of Justice v Kalle Ljunkvist, the City Court of Stockholm found the editor of Sweden’s largest evening paper guilty of agitation against an ethnic group for comments published by racists on the paper’s online forum.

  • Domain Names - World Wide Fund For Nature and World Wildlife Fund Inc v World Wrestling Federation Inc. The Court of Appeal dismissed the Wrestling Federation’s Appeal over restraint of trade.

  • Disclosure - Financial Times ltd and other v Interbrew S.A. Court of Appeal. This decision suggests more order for journalistic disclosure could be on its way.

  • Online Dispute Resolution - The UK government has launched a site, which allows recovery of money online.

  • Passing Off - Celebrities can protect the use of their image.

  • Patents - In Manashe Business Mercantile ltd and Anr v William Hill Organisation, an interesting point of law was decided regarding jurisdiction and an online gaming system that was hosted in the Antilles and accessed in the UK.

  • Cookies - Toysrus.com and the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs provide an insight into Regulators attitudes’ towards the use of cookies.

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