| EU's Juncker: Yen Trend Better Than A Month Ago -2-
Juncker, who also chairs the group of finance ministers from euro-zone countries, said inflation pressures in the currency area are "under control." His remarks came just after the European Central Bank raised its key rate to 3.75% from 3.50%. The ECB is widely expected to push that rate to 4.0% by the end of the year, prompting worries about slower economic growth among some E.U. politicians. -By Carolyn Henson and Adam Cohen, Dow Jones Newswires; +322 741 1486; adam.cohen@dowjones.com (END) Dow Jones Newswires March 08, 2007 11:17 ET (16:17 GMT) Copyright 2007 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. .
Cooley IP Practice Announces New Leadership Position, Reflecting ...
PALO ALTO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 03/05/07 -- Cooley Godward Kronish LLP announced today new leadership for one of the practice areas within its Intellectual Property practice group. Partner Tom Friel will become the leader of the firm's national Intellectual Property litigation practice. He joins partners Anne Peck, head of Trademark, Copyright & Advertising, and Frank Pietrantonio, head of the Patent Counseling & Prosecution team, as an Intellectual Property practice group leader. Pietrantonio will continue to lead the firm's overarching Intellectual Property practice, comprised of nearly 100 attorneys, patent agents and professionals nationwide. Cooley's Intellectual Property practice group has added key talent over the past two years in areas that are of increasing need by clients, including life sciences-related patent prosecution and counseling, trade secrets theft and economic espionage and international trademark and copyright protection.
Google indexing of links to newspapers violates copyright laws ...
A Belgian court has fined Google $32,600 for every day it continues to publish links to news articles in Belgian newspapers, an action that the court ruled a violation against copyright laws. Google said that it plans to fight the decision. "Google is disappointed, and we intend to appeal the ruling because we believe that Google.be and Google News are entirely legal and provide great value and critical information to Internet users, said Ricardo Reyes, a Google spokesman. However, we are very pleased that the judge agreed Google should be given notice of articles and other material that content owners want removed. As we have in the past, we will honor all requests to remove such materials, Mr. Reyes said. Publishers around the world are following the ruling closely because this may be the beginning of a battle over who deserves to monetize from content.
Microsoft runs into Live trademark spat
A company called Office Live has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Microsoft over the software giant's use of "Office Live" for its on-demand productivity tools. Office Live, which runs sites such as Accountantsofficelive.com, Legalofficelive.com and Realtorsofficelive.com, offers free professional advice to consumers and offers customer leads to businesses. The company is seeking an injunction to prevent Microsoft from using the "Office Live" name. The lawsuit comes at a time when Microsoft is working to get its highly touted "Live" offerings established in the market. In November, Microsoft's internet-based business software, Office Live, became generally available in the US, with such features as customer management tools, email accounts and website building and hosting.
Angry Shop owner and the Copyright Police raid caught on tape.
An interesting story now from the Dum Phone Shop in South Pattaya. The owner of the shop is Khun Pichai aged 37 who called in journalists to his shop at 10.30pm on Friday regarding an incident which occurred on Wednesday Night at his shop which was caught on tape. He explained that a group of 6 armed men claiming to be Police Officers working in the Copyright Department entered his shop and demanded to inspect his laptop.
Khun Pichai correctly asked the men for their Police Identification Badges and a search warrant issued by the court. Both failed to materialize which aroused suspicion. The 6 men were not polite and one of the men was even carrying his firearm in his hand as if he was either about to use it or was prepared to threaten the shop owner with the weapon. Khun Pichai decided to film the men and gave us a copy of the tape.
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