(Kyodo) _ Japan on Friday launched a court specializing in disputes over intellectual property rights including patents, trademarks and copyrights.
The Intellectual Property High Court, a special division of the Tokyo High Court, has 18 judges and specialized investigators, as well as external experts to advise judges.
Its first president is 61-year-old Katsumi Shinohara from the Tokyo High Court.
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CHICAGO – As economists often note, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Having secured private funds to underwrite its new public park, Chicago now faces a clash of private claims and public interests. The issue? The right to photograph the park's signature artworks.
Several months ago, city security guards evicted a professional photographer from Millennium Park, saying he couldn't take pictures of the sculpture known as "The Bean" because its copyright belonged to the artist.
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Information is the key word in today's knowledge-based society
Product cycles are becoming shorter, prices are dropping and competition is keener in today's knowledge-based society. Europe saw the need to create centralised systems on intellectual property (IP)to cover the growing demand for better, cheaper, more simple and wide-covering protection.
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Nat Torkington and I were discussing Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative not long ago. I left Microsoft in early December and had spent the last three years directly involved in various aspects of Shared Source work. The more we discussed his questions, the more we realized others probably shared the same questions. This article came from that realization.
Bedford-based RSA Security Inc. has sewn up the wireless handheld game market, winning a deal with Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. to provide a secure environment for software title developers and publishers creating game titles for its new PlayStationPortable handheld game system.
Financial details of the deal were not released.
Just last month RSA announced a similar deal with Sony’s biggest competitor in the handheld game space, Nintendo Co. Ltd., to provide security software products for its Nintendo DS portable.
Need instant cash, and at the same time want to be a "good citizen"? Just dial 0800-1-272-272, provide the person on the other end with solid data on software piracy, and you could pocket up to Rp 50 million (US$5,350).
The anti-piracy hotline number was officially launched on Tuesday by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) -- an international organization actively fighting the use of illegal computer software -- in its support of the government's moves in curbing piracy.
By Subrato Basu -
CIOs have learned to handle business continuity, information security, and project management. Many are constantly raising the bar on their performance in managing these risks, upping success rates for IT projects, managing outsourcer relations with better skill, and by bringing business managers into the business continuity planning process.
As an indication of how things have evolved, Gartner Executive Programs (EXP) observed that risk management was not in the top 10 business drivers for enterprises two years ago. In the Gartner EXP 2005 CIO survey, however, it has become one of the perennial top 10 business issues.
PLI is hosting a free audio webcast titled “How to Get a Job in IP Law," March 28, 2005 from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. (EST) (also available as a teleconference). Katharine Patterson a consultant in the area of recruitment & training of IP profesionals will share her knowledge on the talents, training, and backgrounds that firms and corporations are seeking in the IP field. This presentation will be geared toward law students and young professionals — although it will be useful for anyone considering a job change. Topics include:
By Steven Aftergood -
The Bush administration's campaign against openness.
The government does a remarkable job of counting the number of national security secrets it generates each year. Since President George W. Bush entered office, the pace of classification activity has increased by 75 percent, said William Leonard in March 2 congressional testimony. His Information Security Oversight Office oversees the classification system and recorded a rise from 9 million classification actions in fiscal year 2001 to 16 million in fiscal year 2004.
Reconnex, NASA and Dan Verton Address the Role of Internal Security in Protecting Against Insider Threats
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- WHO: Reconnex enables companies to guard against information security breaches that originate within an organization. Reconnex's platform is designed for Fortune 1000 companies as well as government, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and other large organizations that must protect confidential data on the network.
Intellectual property theft (brands, trademarks and copyrights) surged to 36% of global counterfeiting during the month of February. More than 95% of all counterfeit items seized by customs, law enforcement and brand enforcement agents related to IP theft, accounting for $55 Million USD. As reported by Gieschen Consultancy, the total value of fake items sold and seized was $76.2 Million from 268 incidents.
LONDON: The Government plans to set up a special court to try intellectual property cases, including disputes on patent rights and trademarks, and to deal with the issue of piracy.
Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Mohamed Shafie Apdal said the draft proposal for the setting up of the Intellectual Property Court had been submitted to the Attorney-General for study.
Geneva - Following the March 9th passage in Guatemala of Decree 31-88 and the US-Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reiterated its concerns about their devastating impact on access to essential medicines in Guatemala and throughout the region.
"We fear that our ability to ensure sustainable access to treatment for our patients, particularly people with HIV/AIDS, will be severely affected," said Dr. Karim Laouabdia, Director of MSF's Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines.
By Tyler Hamilton -
Researchers in Canada who make it their job to find holes and glitches in digital security products are worried that proposed "anti-circumvention" amendments to federal copyright legislation will undermine their livelihood and lower the bar on digital protection.
Legal protection for so-called technological protection measures "is the equivalent of making screwdrivers illegal because they can be used to break and enter," argue executives of 12 software and security companies in a letter sent this week to Industry Minister David Emerson and Heritage Minister Liza Frulla.
"Good legislation targets the illegal act, not the legal tools the crook might use."
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NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Paris Hilton has a problem keeping her personal life personal.
The slinky socialite's latest saga involves highly sensitive details, including phone numbers and personal notes, posted for all to see on the Internet in what could be a case of mobile device hacking.
A spokesman for T-Mobile confirmed earlier reports that information from Paris Hilton's star-studded address book has been posted online.
by Matt Buchanan -
This past Wednesday, I went to an event sponsored by the School of Law's Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Society. The panel featured several attorneys from the law firm Paul Weiss who discussed intellectual property litigation. I know my perspective on IP; I know the big corporations' perspective on IP; so why not see what the perspective of the people actually carrying on the machinations of the IP system is? I wound up surrounded by so many lawyers that it seemed at the time entirely possible that when I stepped through the gates of Vanderbilt Hall, I had somehow walked into some dimension of Hell.
FORT MYERS, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2005--SmartDisk Corporation announced today that on Friday, March 4, it filed a suit for patent infringement against Archos S.A. of France and Archos, Inc. in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The suit alleges infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,658,202, which was awarded to SmartDisk on December 3, 2003. This patent protects SmartDisk's technology marketed under the brand name FlashTrax(R).
ISLAMABAD, March 3 : Pakistan’s Commerce Secretary Tasneem Noorani, who was on a two-day visit to Washington on 28th February to 1st March, 2005, met US officials to discuss ways to move forward the ongoing dialogue between the two countries “for deepening bilateral trade relations”.
His visit was a follow-up to last year’s Trade and Investment consultations and to a recent proposal by the President of Pakistan to the US President for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries. The topic of deepening trade relations between Pakistan and USA has assumed centre stage because of the important role of trade in economic development, poverty alleviation and reduction of extremism in developing countries.
(PRWEB) March 3, 2005 -- I - Is Macau a Violent Place?
I-OnAsia expects that the overall number of violent cases in Macau, as well as the magnitude of the cases themselves, will fall compared to a year ago.
Most likely, this is because with the local economy booming, Macanese gangsters have been far too busy making money by maintaining the peace to resort to violence. Analysis of law enforcement actions in Macau, Hong Kong, and Guangdong against organized crime in the region supports this fact.
IPLocks has unveiled the IPLocks Information Risk Management Platform. The IPLocks platform secures information assets that businesses rely on, while improving business continuity and easing the pain of corporate governance.
The IPLocks Information Risk Management Platform secures critical information assets from malicious and negligent use minimizing risks by alerting and reacting to threats. With behavioral analysis, content verification, security assessment and auditing capabilities, IPLocks provides a platform for automating and enforcing business best practices and security policies without altering IT infrastructure.
