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Intellectual Property & Technology Update Winter 2012

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 8 2012

Welcome to the Winter 2012 issue of "Intellectual Property & Technology Update," a quarterly publication prepared by the members of Squire Sanders' intellectual property and technology law practice

Intermediary liability global

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Australia, India, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
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  • January 25 2012

They have also been a number of overseas developments that are of interest from an Australian perspective given the ongoing debate surrounding the issue

US copyrights: the termination right

  • Swan Turton LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • February 14 2013

Authors of copyright works created after 1 January 1978 have the right to regain the ownership of these in the US after 35 years. Transfers of

The Star Wars action figures battle is now over

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • September 29 2011

Lucasfilm Ltd v Ainsworth, 2011 UKSC 39, is about intellectual property rights in the Star Wars action figures which Ainsworth helped to design for Lucasfilm, many decades ago

Star Wars Stormtrooper helmets English floodgates open to cross-border IP litigation...?

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • October 25 2011

The UK's highest court of appeal, the Supreme Court, decided that Lucasfilm's UK copyright was not infringed by the manufacture and sale of replica Star Wars Stormtrooper helmets in the UK

TK-421: why aren’t you at your post? (and where’s your helmet?)

  • Coats & Bennett PLLC
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • August 4 2011

A long time ago, in a Galaxy far, far away

TMT Legal Update: Richard O'Dwyer's extradition: an update

  • Eversheds LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • January 7 2013

Richard O'Dwyer, the student accused of copyright infringement, has signed an agreement with prosecutors in a New York court. Following the Home

UK Supreme Court holds that U.S. copyright claims are justiciable in English courts

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • September 30 2011

The UK Supreme Court has held that Star Wars Stormtrooper helmets are not sculptures due to their utilitarian nature and consequently do not constitute artistic works under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA

Enforcement of foreign intellectual property rights - Lucasfilm Ltd and others v. Ainsworth and another

  • Dentons
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • October 5 2011

Once judgment has been obtained, the successful party needs to be able to enforce that judgment against the other party to obtain the remedy granted in the judgment

Lucasfilm wins right to sue in UK for infringement of U.S. copyright

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • August 10 2011

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom rules on protection of Stormtrooper headgear and justiciability of U.S. copyright in English courts