In the News.

["Tamiru Degefe" <TDegefe@xxxxxxxx>]

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Facebook, EU Privacy, HTC, Rating Apps: Intellectual Property.
By Ellen Rosen, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, December 01, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/836uyt3
"Facebook Inc., the world's biggest social networking site, agreed to
settle complaints by the Federal Trade Commission that it failed to
protect users' privacy or disclose how their data could be used."
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Red Bull, Samsung, Pfizer, Google: Intellectual Property.
Bloomberg BusinessWeek, December 01, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/6t5ymnq
"Red Bull GmbH, the Austrian energy- drink maker, lost a court bid to
stop a maker of Scalextric racing games from putting its brand name on
toy cars."
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America's Lifetime Products keeps pushing on intellectual property in
China.
By Steve Toloken, Plastics News, November 30, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/72onwm2
"American plastic table manufacturer Lifetime Products Inc. is
continuing its push into Chinese courts to stop alleged violations of
its intellectual property, securing a victory in a trademark case but
having mixed results thus far in a separate case involving manufacturing
patents."
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Counterfeits, Tracking Shoppers, Tessera: Intellectual Property.
By Ellen Rosen, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, November 30, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/7pjau2j
"The U.S. seized 150 domain names of websites selling counterfeit goods
-- including fake Ugg boots and Nike sneakers -- in a crackdown on
retailers violating intellectual property laws, authorities said."
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London backed by UK lawyers as home of new European patents court.
The guardian, November 28, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/cs9qxra
"An Anglo-German tug of war is developing over the site of a new
European patents court that could generate hundreds of millions of
pounds of business for UK lawyers and scientists."
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Netgear, Merck & Co., Yahoo!, BMW: Intellectual Property.
By Victoria Slind, Bloomerg BusinessWeek , November 28, 2011.

http://tinyurl.com/7dp6ydf
" Harris Corp. a maker of communications-related electronic equipment,
sued Netgear Inc. for allegedly infringing network-security patents."


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Vt. artist says he'll fight giant for his kale.

CBS News, November 27, 2011.

http://tinyurl.com/89s5up7

"A folk artist expanding his home business built around the words "eat
more kale" says he's ready to fight root-to-feather to protect his
phrase from what he sees as an assault by the second-largest chicken
restaurant chain in the country, which holds the trademark to the phrase
"eat mor chikin."

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Piracy vs. an open Internet.
Los Angeles Times, November 25, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/876ea7s
"To avoid the reach of US copyright laws, numerous online pirates have
set up shop in countries less willing or able to enforce intellectual
property rights. Policymakers agree that these "rogue" sites pose a real
problem ..."

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'Eat More Kale' trademark flap more complex than simple slogan.
By Dan D'Ambrosio, BurlingtonFreePress.com, November 24, 2011.

http://tinyurl.com/76ayzpd

"Bo Muller-Moore, purveyor of hand-stenciled "Eat More Kale" T-shirts
screen printed one at a time in a room over his garage on Vine Street in
Montpelier, has posted a couple of instructional videos on his website,
eatmorekale.com, for those who want to make their own T-shirts."

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Terrified of cyber squatting, businesses battle plan for more top-level
domains.
By Sean Gallagher, The ars techica, November 23, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/csukf5z
"Now ICANN has done it-they've gone and made the advertising industry
angry, along with an army of other trademark and intellectual property
stakeholders. The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) is leading a
petition drive asking the US Commerce Department to stop ICANN's planned
roll-out of potentially hundreds of new "generic" top-level domains
(gTLDs; existing gTLDs include .com and .net), including the
controversial .xxx domain for pornographic content."
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Tamiru Degefe

Center for Intellectual Property