MEDIATION & ARBITRATION
Last week, the National Arbitration Forum released a ruling in favor of Google. The issue was whether certain domain names were confusingly similar to Google's domain name. The disputed domain names included googkle.com, ghoogle.com, gfoofle.com and gooigle.com. Since the extra letter in each name... read more
The Japanese Patent Office has decided to revise the Patent Attorneys Law to allow patent attorneys to represent clients in out-of-court disputes over copyrights for music, movies and other works. Such out-of-court dispute resolution would be in the format of arbitration... read more
from c|net news.com:
Creative Commons, a nonprofit group that has proposed new ways to share creative works by use of a "some rights reserved" copyright system, is expanding from the realm of copyright into patents and scientific publishing by launching "Science Commons". From their website... read more
Matt Homann over at the The [Non]Billable Hour blog, regularly hosts a question/answer series famously known as the "Five-by-Five". For each Five-by-Five, Matt solicits five experts in an area of the law to give five responses to a specific question about... read more