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CBS reports that CBS anchor Bruce Rheins together with his wife, Dawn Westlake, bespeak maintain applied to the USPTO to register JESUS JUICE every bit a merchandise ambit for wines. “Jesus Juice” is the term that the vocalizer Michael Jackson was said to exercise for vino during the recent tiddler molestation illustration against him and, indeed, the figurative chemical component that accompanies the give-and-take chemical component is a gentleman inwards a cruciform lay wearing a loincloth, fedora, penny-loafers together with a unmarried rhinestone glove. The application has led to objections from Michael Jackson’s lawyers. Rheins together with Westlake bespeak maintain countered that they never intended to sell vino nether the mark. Instead, they applied for it for the purposes of distributing vino to their friends, together with to halt others from obtaining the mark, leading to a province of affairs where other peoples’ beverages could hold out false for their own. reckons that,...

1 Status Quo claims preserved inwards business office ... has been busily contemplating Lancaster v Handle Artists Management Ltd , a Chancery Division ruling yesterday yesteryear the Vice-Chancellor, Sir Andrew Morritt too picked upwards swiftly yesteryear All England Direct too non nevertheless available on BAILII . Most of the parties inwards this dispute were members of the pop grouping Status Quo too had an involvement inwards the copyright too performing royalties payable nether iv sets of recording agreements concluded betwixt July 1966 too Dec 1982 (the Pye agreements, the Gaff agreements, the 1979 agreements too the Classicmore agreements). Coghlan left the grouping inwards 1981 every bit did i of his colleagues, Lancaster, inwards 1987. In Nov 2002 they sued the other grouping members too their manager, seeking declarations that they remained entitled to their portion of royalties nether the recording agreements too that the defendants held such royalties on trust for the ...

1 Out of Focus? Yesterday the Court of First Instance (CFI) gave its decision in Case T-275/03 Focus Magazin Verlag GmbH v Office for Harmonisation inward the Internal Market . ECI applied to register equally a Community merchandise grade (CTM) the discussion sign Hi-FOCuS for telecoms goods as well as services inward Classes ix as well as 38. Focus Magazin opposed, argument in that location was a likelihood of confusion nether Article 8(1)(b) of CTM Regulation as well as relying on its before High German merchandise grade FOCUS; this grade was registered inward 24 Classes of goods as well as services as well as Focus Magazin complained of a likelihood of confusion inward honor of all of them. The observe of opposition contained a certificate of registration of the High German mark, inward German, as well as besides a certificate of registration of the international merchandise grade FOCUS, this fourth dimension inward French. The Opposition Division told Focus Magazin that, since it h...

US Newswire reports that the States Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez has announced a novel proposed slice of legislation. The Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2005 volition implement stronger forfeiture proceedings, criminalize intellectual holding infringement motivated past times whatever type of commercial wages or soul fiscal arrive at in addition to increase the possibility of restitution for the “victims” of infringement. thinks that this may live on a fleck of an overreaction. While IP infringement isn’t a “victimless crime”, every bit around would suggest, in that place are existing provisions which criminalise surely forms of infringement. If these aren’t working, growing increasingly to a greater extent than shrill bya increasing the severity of criminal measures isn’t probable to brand the province of affairs whatever better.

1 The Trouble amongst Ownership This delightful book has simply strayed across the IPKat's busy fiddling desk together with he proposes to come about it past times him for approximately fourth dimension to come. Entitled The Trouble amongst Ownership: Literary Property together with Authorial Liability inwards England, 1660-1730 , this mass is a celebration of the academic pursuit of an enjoyably interesting quarry for its ain sake. The author, Jody Greene ( left ), is Associate Professor of Literature together with Women's Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is evidently a mortal who likes to smoothen the brilliant low-cal of modern (and occasionally anachronistic) concepts into the darkest corners of intellectual holding history, source identifying the fundamental players inwards the evolution of a correct that grew bigger than fifty-fifty its almost fervent early on supports could accept believed. Greene thus lets these players utter to us through her ...

1 Browned off, at no cost In Locksley Brown v MCASSO Music Productions Ltd (noted thence far only on the All England Direct service) a two-man Court of Appeal consisting of Lords Justices Scott Baker together with Neuberger yesterday overturned a determination of Judge Michael Fysh QC on costs inwards a rather messy copyright dispute. Brown sued Mcasso inwards the Patents County Court for copyright infringement regarding the lyrics inwards a rap song, "Mr High Roller". Although the example was allocated to the fast track, substantial declaration erupted equally to whether Brown owned the copyright solely or only equally a articulation owner. Finding that Brown owned a 10& part inwards the copyright, he awarded him but £180 of his ain costs but made him pay Mcasso's too. In his sentiment the the costs gild inwards favour of Mcasso equally justified since Brown refused to cause got 2 offers past times Mcasso to settle the activity together with also refused mediation. ...

this in National Geographic News . On Nov 1 Boris Volfson of Huntington, Indiana, received the U.S. of A. Patent 6,960,975 for his blueprint of an antigravity infinite vehicle. Volfson's arts and crafts is theoretically powered yesteryear a superconductor shield that changes the space-time continuum inwards such a means that it defies gravity. The blueprint effectively creates a perpetual-motion machine, which physicists reckon an impossible device. Robert Park, a consultant amongst the American Physical Society inwards Washington DC, warns that such dubious patents aren't express to the antigravity concept: "I mightiness take away heed a electrical charge nearly a item patent, together with and then I await into it. More oft than non it's a screwball patent. It's an quondam problem, simply it has gotten worse inwards the concluding few years. The workload of the patent constituent has gone upwardly enormously." Some people mightiness reckon patents on unworka...