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Site access as a criterion for the jurisdiction of the courts in the EU. The Court of Justice in response to a request for a preliminary ruling by the French Supreme Court on the interpretation of Art. 5 Para. 3 of Regulation 44/2001 assumes that a harmful event may occur from the reproducibility of a work from a website accessible in the forum ...

Many companies in the U.S and around the world have experienced the problems with the so-called “Trolls” or “patent assertion entities” or “non-practicing entities”. Typically, these companies buy obscure patents and use them to bully other companies with the threat of launching a lawsuit for patent infringement, which costs defendants around $ mi...

The High Court in Paris, France has reached a decision, which orders Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to block search results from their search engines, which displayed 16 video-streaming sites, including allostreaming, Fifostream and dpstream. Internet service providers such as Orange and Bouygues Telecom are also ordered to block the access of their...

The WikiLeaks anti-secrecy group has revealed a document, which in the opinion of patent experts shows that access to generic drugs, which are cheaper than their originals, may be limited by a Trans-Pacific Partnership being negotiated by 12 nations, including the U.S. and Japan. The limitation would come through an increase of patent protectio...