Intellectual Property Law News
eBay told to pay $59M to fashion brand for fakes
PARIS (AP) - A French commercial court Monday ordered eBay Inc. to pay more than $59 million to a high-end fashion company because counterfeit goods were sold on the auction site.
Web panel paves way for hundreds of new domains
By ANICK JESDANUN AP Internet WriterNEW YORK (AP) - The Internet's key oversight agency relaxed rules Thursday to permit the introduction of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new Internet domain names to join ".com," making the first sweeping changes in the network's 25-year-old addressing system.
Artist says CA must halt use of whale tail plates
By NOAKI SCHWARTZ Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - A whopper of a fight has escalated over who should benefit from the proceeds of California's popular whale tail license plate.
S.C. Counties Can Copyright, License Public Documents
By DEBORAH NATHAN, ESQ., Andrews Publications Staff Writer
It does not violate freedom-of-information law for a public entity to copyright and license specially created documents and to restrict subsequent commercial use, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. Calif. artist fights over license-plate royalties
By NOAKI SCHWARTZ Associated Press WriterLOS ANGELES (AP) - One of California's most popular specialty license plates - depicting the tail of a Pacific humpback whale rising out of misty waters - could soon become endangered itself.
By ANICK JESDANUN AP Internet Writer
By NOAKI SCHWARTZ Associated Press Writer
By DEBORAH NATHAN, ESQ., Andrews Publications Staff Writer
It does not violate freedom-of-information law for a public entity to copyright and license specially created documents and to restrict subsequent commercial use, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. Calif. artist fights over license-plate royalties
By NOAKI SCHWARTZ Associated Press Writer
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- ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law
- American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) The AIPLA represents individuals, companies and institutions involved directly or indirectly in thepractice of patent, trademark, copyright and unfair competition law, as well as other fields of law affecting intellectual property.
- US Copyright Office Informational circulars; application forms for copyright registration; links to the copyright law and to thehome pages of other copyright-related organizations; news of what the Office is doing, including Congressional testimony andpress releases; our latest regulations; a link to our online copyright records cataloged since 1978.
- US Patent and Trademark Office Promotes the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times toinventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries (Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution).
- USPTO Web Patent Database Full text database, bibliographic database, AIDS patent database.
- USPTO Web Trademark Database Full bibliograpic text database.
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- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) WIPO is responsible for the promotion of the protection of intellectualproperty throughout the world through cooperation among States, and for the administration of various multilateral treatiesdealing with the legal and administrative aspects of intellectual property.
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