Technology and IP eBulletin April 2010

Technology and IP eBulletin
April 2010

In this issue:

•	Enforcing your IP rights - A Worthy Investment?
•	Controversial Digital Economy Bill receives Royal Assent
•	Ignorance is Bliss for Google
•	"Super-injunctions" - not so super after all?

Welcome to our Spring Technology and IP eBulletin. To coincide with the 10th Anniversary of World Intellectual Property Day today, Monday 26 April 2010, we have put together a number of interesting articles which focus on some of the day to day issues raised by World IP Day.

The World Intellectual Property Organisation notes the aims of World IP Day as being:
• to raise awareness of how patents, copyright, trademarks and designs impact on daily life
• to increase understanding of how protecting IP rights helps promote creativity and innovation
• to celebrate creativity, and the contribution made by creators and innovators to the development of societies across the globe
• to encourage respect for the IP rights of others

Further information of World Intellectual Property Day can be found at http://www.wipo.int/ip-outreach/en/ipday/.

DMH Stallard’s Technology and Media Practice delivers a complete range of intellectual property protection and exploitation services. We are leaders in our field and are recognised by a number of the leading legal directories for our excellent lawyers.

In this edition, we look at the following issues:
• Enforcing your IP rights – A Worthy Investment?
• Controversial Digital Economy Bill receives Royal Assent
• Ignorance is Bliss for Google
• “Super-injunctions” – not so super after all?

Should you have any queries or suggestions as to what information you may find useful going forward, please do contact me.

Kind regards

Tim Ashdown
Partner
DMH Stallard
Tel 020 78221570
tim.ashdown@dmhstallard.com

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