Richard Stallman about granting patents.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 31.01.2005
Check the article on www.newsforge.com website.
Bruce Perens about granting patents.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 31.01.2005
Read C|Net article.
and "Spambuster".
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 31.01.2005
Read The Register article about the ruling. Hormel had already lost its trademark case back in February 2002. The UK Patent Office decision (PDF file).
and fake ad.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 31.01.2005
Read the article on www.worldnetdaily.com website. The link with this movie mentioned in the article.
EPO.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 31.01.2005
EPO's official journal January, 2005.
UCKFAY approved by USPTO.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 31.01.2005
"UCKFAY" trademark (application no 78366377) for clothing products (class 25) was approved by USPTO. It's very controversial decision. Read more about this issue on John Welch blog.
2004 best brands.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 31.01.2005
Read the article on www.brandchannel.com website.
University trademark.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 31.01.2005
Who should be the owner of the "Missouri State University" trademark? Read the article on www.columbiamissourian.com website.
Patents in China.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 31.01.2005
$175M patent suit agreement between Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. More about this issue in articles on www.chinatechnews.com, www.bloomberg.com, www.channelnewsasia.com, www.ft.com, www.news.com, www.forbes.com websites
Trademarks in China.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 30.01.2005
588,000 trademark's applications. Check the article on www.chinaview.cn website.
Insurance from patent suits.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 30.01.2005
Check the thread on www.slashdot.org website (those comments are always worth reading) and main article about this issue on www.ip-wars.net website .
suffers lower shares prices after the patent judgment.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 29.01.2005
MERCK's shares plunged by more than 10 per cent to $27.88 on the New York Stock Exchange after The US Federal Court in Washington ordered that the patent on one of MERCK's leading drugs is to be withdrawn in ten years earlier than expected. Check articles on www.timesonline.co.uk and www.reuters.com websites.
WIPO Copyright Treaty.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 29.01.2005
WIPO Copyright Treaty adopted in Geneva on December 20, 1996. Published in Dziennik Ustaw, 2005. No 3, pos. 12.
Polish Government's official statement on October 28, 2004. concerning entry into force WIPO Copyright Treaty adopted in Geneva on December 20, 1996. Published in Dziennik Ustaw, 2005. No 3, pos. 13.
PDF files.
Vietnamease tea.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 28.01.2005
The article on www.vnagency.com.vn website about the trademark "Che Viet Nam" for national tea from Vietnam
has problems in China.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 28.01.2005
Read the article on www.chinadaily.com.cn website about Coca Cola China Beverages Ltd. trial before Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court.
New patent for 
.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 28.01.2005
US patent no 6,847,959 and the article on www.macobserver.com website about this patent.
USPTO.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 28.01.2005
Very good move from United States Patent and Trademark Office. The Trademark Document Retrieval displays the electronic file wrapper of U.S. Trademark applications and applications for Extensions of Protection, as well as U.S. Trademark Registrations. It also displays information contained in the USPTO records regarding International Registrations and applications for International Registration filed under the Madrid system through the U.S. More info in FAQ.
Patent for a good judged tennis match.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 28.01.2005
US patent no 6,816,185 and the article about this issue on www.yahoo.com website.
Strange trademarks filings 
.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 27.01.2005
Read C|Net article about Intel's moves.
can't register trademark?
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 27.01.2005
The article about problems with "Have a break" slogan on www.forbes.com website. Advocate General opinion in case C-353/03 Société des produits Nestlé SA v Mars UK Ltd. Another www.forbes.com article about this case.
and antiphoto patent.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 27.01.2005
Check patent application no 20040202382 and C|Net article.
The report from USPTO.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 27.01.2005
Performance and Accountability Report for 2004. PDF file. And transcript of the 07 December 2004 online chat for independent inventors.
Firewall patent?
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 27.01.2005
McAfee was granted US patent no 6,839,852. Check comments from www.slashdot.org thread.
Who is pro patents for CII?.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 27.01.2005
Yesterday Polish PM Marek Belka recived a letter from IT industry companies asking Poland to support the draft of the Directive about patentability computer implemented inventions. Read the article on www.gazeta.pl website (sorry it is in Polish). There are Siemens, Nokia, Philips, Ericsson and Alcatel mentioned.
"gives" patents.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 27.01.2005
No dubt that it happens after the earlier IBM statement. SUN grants its patent portfolio for open source developers based on Common Development and Distribution License licence. Check articles on www.neowin.net and www.webpronews.com web sites.
Is this 
website?
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 27.01.2005
Rumours about www.dellwebsites.com website made by Dell. Read The Register article.
Canada defends Blackberry's producer.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 26.01.2005
The Canadian government is stepping in to help save RIM from its US patent wars. Read The Inquirer article about this problem.
fills patent application and discloses XBOX2 specification?
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 26.01.2005
ATI Technologies, Inc. in it's patent application no 20050007165 may reveal some technical details about the newest console from Microsoft. Read the article on www.computerandvideogames.com website and The Inquirer article.
licence.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 26.01.2005
Text, rules of the licence.
versus 
the story goes on.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 26.01.2005
One story ended with the judgment saying that that Hynix infringed 29 claims from four Rambus patents. Now article from www.reuters.com says that Rambus has filed another patent infringement lawsuit against Hynix Semiconductor. Short overview of all cases on Rambus website.
Patent law in India.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 25.01.2005
The Indian government said patent laws were open to amendments, although an ordinance defined the scope and applicability of patents late last year. Read www.indianexpress.com article about this issue.
EPO after public hearing.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 25.01.2005
According to this information from EPO's web site. European patent EP 705903 (patent on mutations in breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene, check info from January 17, 2005) is to be maintained in amended form.
access.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 25.01.2005
Republic of Singapore access to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs, adopted at Geneva on July 2, 1999 (the "Geneva Act"). WIPO's official press release. Singapore access to the WIPO Copyright Treaty, adopted at Geneva on December 20, 1996. WIPO's official press,/a> release, and access to the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, adopted at Geneva on December 20, 1996, WIPO's official press release. All said treaties will enter into force, with respect to the Republic of Singapore, on April 17, 2005.
access.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 25.01.2005
The Union of the Comoros access to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of September 9, 1886, as revised at Paris on July 24, 1971, and amended on September 28, 1979. WIPO's official press release. The Berne Convention will enter into force, with respect to the Union of the Comoros, on April 17, 2005.
Short news from 
.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 25.01.2005
Short news (published in "Wiadomości regionalne" part of "Gazet Pomorska" newspaper from January, 24 2005), that makes happy. I will cite the full story. The Police arrested 43 years old man selling counterfeited clothes with famous trademarks in Saturady at the marketplace at Targowa street in Świecie. Four sweatshirts were found with the perpetrator. The suspect was released after interrogation.
USPTO.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 24.01.2005
Final rule trademark filing fee change. All info available here (PDF file).
EPO.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 24.01.2005
New The EPO Boards of Appeal's decisions .
Poland stops again.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 24.01.2005
The draft of the Directive (you should know which one) did not pass A-item during European Council meeting. Read the article on www.eweek.com website. Check the FFII website too. The Register article about it.
Patent cases about DVD technology.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 23.01.2005
Check www.slashdot.org thread about this issue.
Polska still on crosshair.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 22.01.2005
Mr Robert B. Zoellick (US Trade Representative) in his official statement wrote that Poland will remain on the Watch List (Intellectual Property Rights - Out-of-Cycle Revievs), and Taiwan will be moved from the Priority Watch List to the Watch List due to the progress it has achieved. Found on B. Heinze blog.
Patent for 
.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 21.01.2005
Check C|Net article about patent application no 20040266529.
sued by patent attorney.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 21.01.2005
Check the article on www.chicagotribune.com website. Some comments on Deniss Crouch great blog.
On-line chat with USPTO.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 21.01.2005
Senior officials of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, as well as a representative from the Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program, will be available live on-line next Tuesday, January 25, from 2 to 3 pm (EDT). They will be answering questions and offering tips for independent inventors.
Foodstuff and traditional products.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 21.01.2005
There is a new Act in Dziennik Ustaw from 17 January 2005 (No 10, pos. 68). Act from 17 December 2004. "O rejestracji i ochronie nazw i oznaczeń produktów rolnych i środków spożywczych oraz o produktach tradycyjnych". The Act comes into force at 17th February 2005. There are changes made by this Act in The Industrial Property Law Act from 30 June 2000. (Dziennik Ustaw from 2003. No 119, pos. 1117 and from 2004. No 33, pos. 286).
Agreement between and 
.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 21.01.2005
Hewlett-Packard will pay Intergraph $141 million to settle a patent infringement dispute.. More details C|Net article.
in the Court.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 21.01.2005
There will be the CFI judgment. Check this site in tuesday February the 1st. Case T-57/03, SPAG, OHMI v Dann and Backer. It is about a controversial trademark of the HOOLIGAN brand. Very popular one in Poland, especially between football fans. Oi! ;)
Patent law in Japan.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 21.01.2005
I wrote about this case August 16, 2004 r. The inventor of the blue LED, Professor Shuji Nakamura signed the $8.1m agreement with his previous employer Nichia Check The Register article for more details.
Again the draft of the Directive on Patentability of CII between fishes?
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 20.01.2005
Check the FFII web pge for more details. I would like to see Council's documents with information who is so stronlgy pushing this draft to be voted in such manner. Which of the EU bureaucrats? Anyway long live "euro democracy"!
Other view about patentability of computer implemented inventions in European Union and the need of such law in Flash Eurobarometer 164 Innobarometer 2004 (PDF file) realised by EOS Gallup Europe upon the request of the European Commission.
loses trademark dispute before French court.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 20.01.2005
Read C|Net article for more details about this case.
CFI judgment.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 20.01.2005
Case T-387/03, Proteome Inc. v OHIM.
EPO.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 20.01.2005
Notice (PDF file) from the European Patent Office dated 6 December 2004 concerning the filing of patent applications and other documents.
ICANN and VeriSign .net registry agreement.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 20.01.2005
Check it here. There will be next commercial operator.
Hynix infringed patents.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 20.01.2005
Read C|Net, The Register and The Inquirer articles about Hynix v. Rambus case.
Amendments to the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 20.01.2005
WIPO's official press release.
access.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 20.01.2005
Republic of Latvia access to the Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs, signed at Locarno on October 8, 1968, as amended on September 28, 1979. WIPO's official press release. The said Agreement will enter into force, with respect to the Republic of Latvia, on April 14, 2005.
Jail for P2P.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 20.01.2005
Check C|Net article. The plea guilty institution makes criminal trials faster.
and 
tried patent law reform?
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 19.01.2005
Both companies are unhappy about the decision of the US Supreme Court refusing their writs of certiorari (PDF file) in American Axle and Manufacturing v. Dana Corp case. Check the article on www.news.com website for more details.
will say if the game works?
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 19.01.2005
Interestin patent application no 20040268341 and C|Net article with comments.
Biotechnology patents.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 19.01.2005
Please check very good www.wired.com article and www.slashdot.org thread about this issue.
Court battles about patents.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 19.01.2005
Read C|Net article about Qualcomm against Maxim. Second C|Net News article about Ciena and Nortel case.
RIM Ltd. and american law.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 18.01.2005
A rehearing en banc of the case NTP v. Research in Motion, unpublished (Fed. Cir. 2004). PDF file. More details on Dennis Crouch web blog. Some comments in C|Net article.
against the directive.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 18.01.2005
Check www.techworld.com article.
Liberty versus property.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 18.01.2005
The conference is organized by Jagiellonian University in Kraków along with Towarzystwo Biblioteki Słuchaczów Prawa UJ. Special guest star prof. Lawrence Lessig.
EPO - opposition hearings on two genetic engineering patents.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 17.01.2005
Do You remeber my old post from Sptember 2001? Well the archive is in Polish only. There is a www.slashdot.org thread mentioned. Now more about this issue in official information on EPO's website. It may be very interesting.
NASK came to bad end.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 17.01.2005
Our local monopoly was too clever. Check the artcicle on www.chip.pl website (sorry it's in Polish). Generally speaking it's about illegal actions taken by Polish ccTLD Register against domain users. The court ruled in favour of a user who works for Chip and had registered www.shareware.com.pl domain name. He had this domain for short time and then abandoned it. He decided to stop paying, (his decision was based on NASK regulations about consumer contracts) hoped to be deleted from the register. NASK tried to force him to pay even for the time he didn't use the domain. I got the same problem with NASK. So far they did not sue me but I wait to have some fun in a court.
access.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 17.01.2005
Republic of Macedonia access to the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, adopted at Geneva on December 20, 1996. WIPO's official press release. The said Treaty will enter into force, with respect to The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, on March 20, 2005.
Projects of new regulations.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 16.01.2005
Information about projects of new (PDF file) Industrial Property regulations found on the Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys website. All texts in Polish, sorry.
EPO.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 15.01.2005
EPO's important notice concerning fees. Official press release.
American law.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 15.01.2005
Interesting case Fuji Photo Film Co., LTD. v. Jazz Photo Corp., et al., unpublished (Fed. Cir. 2005).
Patent Cooperation Treaty.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 15.01.2005
The World Intellectual Property Organization paid tribute on Friday to the world's innovators on the occasion of the filing of the one millionth international patent application under Patent Cooperation Treaty done at Washington on June 19, 1970, amended on September 28, 1979, modified on February 3, 1984, and October 3, 2001 Official WIPO press release. All info about this.
WIPO statistic.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 15.01.2005
New Parties to WIPO-Administered Treaties in 2004. Official press release.
Conference in Alicante.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 13.01.2005
Polish Patent Office informs about 6th International Trademark Conference April 28 - 29, 2005 in OHIM, Alicante and pre-conference workshop "Trademark Protection in China", OHIM, Alicante. More info (PDF file).
Software patents - how do they do it in USA, Canada, Japan and Europe.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 13.01.2005
Worth reading Patenting Software - The Standards in U.S., Europe, Japan and Canada article , by Isis E. Caulder.
3 years for trafficing of counterfeit goods.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 13.01.2005
Lyon, France, posters on airport. Photos made by Cory Doctorow, famous from www.boingboing.net.
and access.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 13.01.2005
WIPO informs in its official press release about accession of Syrian Arab Republic to the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks of June 15, 1957, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, and at Geneva on May 13, 1977, and amended on September 28, 1979.
Accesion of the Union of the Comoros to the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO Convention), signed at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, and as amended on September 28, 1979. WIPO's official press release.
Comores access to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of March 20, 1883, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, and as amended on September 28, 1979. WIPO's official press release. The WIPO Convention and The Paris Convention will enter into force, with respect to the Union of the Comoros, on April 3, 2005.
Comoros access to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), done at Washington on June 19, 1970, amended on September 28, 1979, modified on February 3, 1984, and on October 3, 2001.
WIPO's official press release. The said Treaty will enter into force, with respect to the Union of the Comoros, on April 3, 2005.
Altnet seeks patent royalties.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 13.01.2005
Read C|Net article about letters sent by Altnet to LimeWire, BearShare and StreamCast Networks. Altnet is saying they need to pay for licenses, or may risk legal actions.
One US world wide patent.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 13.01.2005
See the website of the Committee of the Judiciary. Read how "the United States could take a leadership role in negotiating an agreement under which countries would give full faith and credit to patents granted by an international organization or one of the three largest patent offices in the world - the U.S. Patent Office, the European Patent Office, or the Japanese Patent Office". Found on IPKat web blog.
Software patents - from where did it come?
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 12.01.2005
Subject of software patents law is very "hot" in European Union lately. Some of You may wonder from where did come this tendency. The answer is very short. USA legal system was very liberal about those issues at the begining. First very important judgemnt came in Diamound v. Chakrabarty, 100 S.Ct. 2204 (1980) case. USA Supreme Court precisely said (based on Congress historical materials about patent law legislation) that "anything under the sun that is made by man" can be patented, I wrote short info about this case in January, 2004. Shortly after this case, about one year after USA Supreme Court gave another important judgment in Diamond v. Diehr, 450 U.S. 175 (1981) case. In dictum of this judgment You may read a lot of interesting things about patentability of software inventions. This judgment was the key for todays USPTO policy about granting software patents. I need to mention that this policy is under hard criticism in USA. Big software companies which try to monopolize fields of their activity started legal lobbying in European Union to bring such solution in European internal/common market. Please read obiter dictum of both judgments to learn more about such law policy in USA.
Next CFI judgment.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 12.01.2005
Case T-334/03, Deutsche Post EURO EXPRESS GmbH v OHIM.
CFI judgments.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 12.01.2005
In Joined Cases T-367/02, T-368/02, T-369/02, Wieland-Werke AG v OHIM.
thanks.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 12.01.2005
Check www.gnu.org website. More details here. :)
and copyright.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 11.01.2005
American point of view. Check slashdot.org thread and www.reuters.com article and www.nytimes.com. Small comment: please do not forget about Taiwan and human rights in China.
Jail for bugs.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 11.01.2005
Check slashdot.org thread and ZDNet article. French programmer Guillaume Tena spend 4 months in prison. He was sued by Tegam Company for reverse engineering its software and publishing exploit codes for a number of vulnerabilities. "Idiotic law" it is probably to weak comment from my side.
Top ten.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 11.01.2005
The Department of Commerce's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today the 2004 top 10 private sector patent recipients. Here is the list. There is IBM too.
Alicante News.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 11.01.2005
OHIM has published the next issue of the official newsletter from Alicante.
gives patents.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 11.01.2005
IBM gives its 500 patents for developing Free Software/Open Source for open-source developers. No need to be afraid of an infringement lawsuit. Details in C|Net and ZDnet articles. Full details and help on www.sourcelicense.com website. those patents are listed in PDF file.
American law.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 11.01.2005
PalmOne case mentioned before. NCR Corpporation v. Palm, Inc., et al., Fed. Cir. 2005, unpublished. PDF file.
Polish MEPs about new 1st reading.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 10.01.2005
It's all about this "patent directive". Prof. Jerzy Buzek supported by 60 other MEPs. More details on FFII website.
New faces.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 10.01.2005
Jon Dudas, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the Department of Commerce's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has named three Deputy Commissioners for Patents. Official USPTO press release.
European Patent Attorneys.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 10.01.2005
EPO maintain online database of professional representatives. Update was done.
Cheese worth many euro.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 10.01.2005
Jacek Pałasiński article "Ser za milion euro" in "Wprost" magazine (19 Dec. 2004), and online edition on www.wprost.pl website. Does he mean not correctly cited in his article Case C-66/00 Bigi? There will be new CFI opinions in 12 January. I will try to post links and comments asap. :)
got style.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 10.01.2005
Collection of especially memorable articles and threads in the history of Usenet on www.google.com 20 Year Usenet Timeline website. Thx for this info goes to www.slashdot.org website.
Change copyright law?
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 09.01.2005
What "big fishes" think about it and what do they want? Read C|Net News article.
wins patent case.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 07.01.2005
Read C|Net News article for more details.
patent fillings.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 06.01.2005
Very strange move. Microsoft fills for software patents in Polish Patent Office. Polish patent law do not allow to acquire so called "software patents". Read Gazeta Wyborcza article. I am really sorry but it is in Polish language and soon You will have to pay for reading.
Patents with 
standard.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 06.01.2005
Five companies had grouped together their antipiracy patents (DRM) for a standard set by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). Details in C|Net News and Reuters articles.
sues over leaked trade secrets.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 05.01.2005
Details in C|Net News article.
European Patent Office.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 05.01.2005
The EPO Boards of Appeal decisions database has been updated, 45 new decisions.
and www.mercedes.com.pl domain.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 05.01.2005
Check the website www.mercedes.com.pl. Sorry English readers its in Polish. Generally speaking its about strange behaviour of DaimlerChrysler AG Stuttgart Execs against Szulc-Efekt Comapny. Szulc-Efekt transfered for free www.mercedes.com.pl domain on DaimlerChrysler AG (see scanned document) in 2001. The organization responsible for transfering is NASK (they manage *.pl and *.com.pl ccTLD). Since 2003 DaimlerChrysler AG started to sent mails to Szulc-Efekt Comapny demanading such transfer in German language. Very strange because translations are not so expensive (pardon my malicious comment) and what is more important such transfer was done 2 years ago.
loses DMCA subpoena case.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 05.01.2005
Recording Industry Association of America has lost its case (PDF file) brought against Charter Communications in United States Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit regarding subpoenas for the cable ISP's users to be identified for copyright infringement. For more details check slashdot.org thread and C|Net News article. I suggest You to read obiter dictum of the opinion.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 05.01.2005
Jagellonian University in Cracow, to be precisely the Intellectual Property Law Institute at this University cooperates with University of Alicante and European Research and Project Office in creating IPR Helpdesk tool. Very good initiative IMHO.
appeal analysis.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 04.01.2005
Maybe a little bit late but worth reading The Register article. Andrew Orlowski analyse Microsoft appeal in case T-201/04 R Microsoft v Commission.
should better care about its company secrets.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 04.01.2005
Samsung prototype devices leaked into Internet. Nice gadgets must say. :)
appeal in illegal distribiution of 
sent back.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 04.01.2005
Appeal in the case Microsoft against MBC Enterprises heard before U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. The case was sent back to the district court. More details in C|Net News and The Register articles.
Piracy is pain in the pocket.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 04.01.2005
Execs of media industry define piracy as a threat no 1. Short C|Net News article.
pays "piracy" tax.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 04.01.2005
Beacuse the computer may be used as a machine to copy copyrighted material, Munich distric court ruled that Fujitsu Siemens must pay "piracy" tax for each machine (12 Euro, $16). The case was brought by German copyright holders association - VG Wort in 2001. More details in C|Net, slashdot.org, The Register articles.
versus 
.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 04.01.2005
Crazy marketing against own brand? Check www.elitedesigners.org.
American law.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 04.01.2005
There are new orders and opinions on US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit website. Summary brief of each case (holding and obiter dictum) on Dennis Crouch web blog. Worth reading.
LokiTorrent fights.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 03.01.2005
LokiTorrent's owners fights against MPAA in legal battle. More about in C|Net News and The Register articles. Copy of a demand letter (JPG file) sent by a law firm representing the MPAA to LokiTorrent.
CC version 2.0.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 03.01.2005
New version of Creative commons licence.
How to fight illegal software distribution.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 03.01.2005
Small software company and its fight against a copycat site. Described step by step. Check slashdot.org comments. :)
Wired about piracy.
Tomasz Rychlicki @ 01.01.2005
The Shadow Internet. Mysterious title of www.wired.com article about so caled warez scene and piracy in Internet.
