links for 2008-04-08

Microsoft reports that it has won a case against a porn spammer at the German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof). The defendant from the German state of Schleswig Holstein had been using fake Microsoft « hotmail » e-mail addresses to send spam mail.

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Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh has been named Trade-mark Prosecution Firm of the Year and Trade-mark Contentious Firm of the Year for 2008 by U.K. publication Managing Intellectual Property magazine (MIP).

Les dégats de l’affaire Mr Spicy :
« Google has announced the lifting of a ban on one company buying the right to use another’s trade mark to trigger its own advert. The move brings the policy for trade marks held in the UK and Ireland in line with that

le latin c’est aussi la langue du chant traditionnel de l’Eglise et Jean Foyer, amateur de chant grégorien, sur l’insistance de notre journaliste, a bien voulu en chanter, dans notre studio, quelques brèves mesures !