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The USITC (United States International Trade Commission) fixes Guidelines for compatible inkjet cartridges importation
As a result of the lawsuits filed by Epson to stop the importation of third party inkjet compatible cartridges, the USITC banned many compatible products for Epson printers, noting that there were 23 counts of patent infringement. However
Microsoft patents the “picture password”
It seems they were working on it for a long time: a new PC protection system based on the recognition of a drawing made by user. In other words, instead of typing the classical alphanumeric password at the
NEW FAIR USE LIMITS FOR COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL
Italian January 9th 2008 n. 2 Act, published in “Gazzetta Ufficiale” on the last January 25th, introduced new provisions regarding the S.I.A.E. (the Italian agency for authors and recording industry, just like BPI in UK and RIAA in
SPECIAL COURTS FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY BECOME “COMPANIES COURTS”
The Italian Government decree about liberalization, approved last January 20th, introduced an important modification to the IP Special Courts system. Article 2 of the Decree has changed the name of IP Special Courts into “Companies Court”, with new
Unitary Patent is going to be less expensive and more effective
As known, last december 11th the EU Parliament, after over 30 years of talks, approved the Unitary Patent, a new regime that will allow to get patent protection among 25 EU Countries, excluded Italy and Spain, through a
The functionality of a software is not protected by copyright law
It’s very briefly what the European Court of Justice ruled in the case C-406/10 of May 2 2012 (below the link to download the full text), with which it was clarified that are not protected by copyright law,
At the Court of Ancona the Specialised Section on Business and IP Law for the Marche Region
As known, the recent amendement of Italian Law Decree 168/2003, that established the “Specialised Sections for IP Law”, has expanded the competences of these Sections also over Company Law (included LLC) and changed their name into “Specialized Sections for Business
New mega-fine for Microsoft for non-compliance with browser choice commitments
Today Microsoft has been fined €561.000.000,00 by EU Commission for failing to comply with its commitments, signed in 2009 and legally binding until 2014, to offer users a browser choice screen enabling them to easily choose their preferred
