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United States: Social Media: Are You Requesting Your Prospective Employees To Provide Their User Names And Passwords To Their Personal Online Accounts? – Dickinson Wright PLLC

Source: Mondaq.Com - feed of articles on Intellectual Property

Social media has come to play an increasingly important role in the hiring process of new employees. Employers are scouring Facebook, Twitter and other social networking websites to weed out applicants. Recent reports have shed further light on this practice.



May 17th, 2012 No Comments

United Kingdom: Copyright In Photographic Works – Withers LLP

Source: Mondaq.Com - feed of articles on Intellectual Property

The judge in a recent case before the UK Patents County Court considered whether a photographic image reproduced a substantial part of another, earlier photographic image, thereby potentially infringing the copyright in the earlier photographic image.



May 17th, 2012 No Comments

Brazil: A New Chapter In The History Of Brazilian Intellectual Property – Demarest e Almeida Advogados

Source: Mondaq.Com - feed of articles on Intellectual Property

Recently, ABES, the Brazilian Association of Software Companies [Associação Brasileira das Empresas de Software] has organized an event in São Paulo about innovation, export competition and unfair competition laws.



May 17th, 2012 No Comments

United States: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Found Absent Under The Lanham Act For Trademark Infringement – Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Source: Mondaq.Com - feed of articles on Intellectual Property

Gucci America, Inc. v. Guess?, Inc., 09 Civ. 4373 (S.D.N.Y. 2011)(SAS)(JLC), discusses the growing issue in international litigation of the “extraterritorial” application of federal laws, in this case the Lanham Act’s prohibition of trademark infringement/false advertising.

May 17th, 2012 No Comments

India: Darjeeling – Tea Or Lounge – LEX ORBIS

Source: Mondaq.Com - feed of articles on Intellectual Property

The dispute is on “DARJEELING” between Tea Board of India and ITC Limited.

May 17th, 2012 No Comments