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Pina Mazzotti - ArticlesPina Mazzotti is an Intellectual Property lawyer at Harvey Ingram LLP solicitors.
Is all your company’s software properly licensed? Trading Standards are now using powers to take criminal action against unlicensed software useUnlicensed use of software, including business software, is said to cause huge losses to the creators of that software; recent estimates suggest global losses of around US$ 30 billion annually. Damaging comments appearing on blogs and message boardsHighly damaging comments about our company and managing director are appearing on blogs and message boards. The comments are anonymous but are causing us real difficulty, as well as embarrassment. Is there anything that we can do to stop this? Who owns the content of your website?Website owners need to be vigilant concerning the origin of their website content. If the website owner or employees, whose job it is to design website content have not created all of the content, then it is highly likely that the website owner should have either obtained consents, a licence or an assignment of the rights in the various elements of the website. What is the test of bad faith when registering a Trade Mark?There is useful guidance from the Court of Appeal as to when a Trade Mark is registered in bad faith. In a 2005 case, an Applicant sought to register "CHINAWHITE" as a UK Trade Mark for beverages, when the Applicant knew of the opponents' use of "Chinawhite" as a name for its nightclub and of cocktails served there. Resolving domain name disputesIncreasingly frequently more and more businesses are promoting themselves via their websites, leading to many of the most popular domain names getting snapped up, and in some cases duplicated, prompting ill-advised and expensive domain name litigation. Pina Mazzotti outlines what can be done to resolve domain name disputes.
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