Today, a US appellate court released its decision in a key case in which rights holders asserted that online video site YouTube should be liable for copyright infringing content appearing on its site. According to a preliminary reading, the appeals court reversed the earlier decision, signalling that YouTube, owned by Google, could have known about infringing content and therefore may not fit under the safe harbor clause of the US Digital Millenniumn Copyright Act limiting the liability of online service providers.... [More] [Back To Top]

There’s tension brewing between the U.S. and China over “trademark squatting,” the practice of grabbing trademarks under China’s rules that allow whoever registers them first to own them. But the most high profile trademark dispute in China, Apple’s fight over the iPad trademark, is something entirely different. Essentially, it is a commercial dispute triggered by Apple’s regrettable failure to properly purchase the rights to that trademark in China.... [More] [Back To Top]

Apple Inc., maker of the iPhone and iPad, asked a U.S. appeals court to block sales of some products made by Samsung Electronics Co. that it contends slavishly copy the two devices. ... [More] [Back To Top]

ALEXANDRIA, VA—Former CIA officer John Kiriakou was indicted today for allegedly repeatedly disclosing classified information to journalists, including the name of a covert CIA officer and information revealing the role of another CIA employee in classified activities, Justice Department officials announced. Kiriakou was charged in a five-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia, after he was initially charged in a criminal complaint and arrested in January 2012.... [More] [Back To Top]

China's vice premier promised Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook that the country would boost intellectual property protection, state media said on Wednesday, in Cook's second day of meetings in the company's biggest potential market.... [More] [Back To Top]

Australian officials Wednesday defended a decision to bar Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies Co Ltd from bidding on national broadband network contracts.... [More] [Back To Top]

Strong measures need to be taken against fake and shoddy products and government departments must ensure they are using only authorized editions of computer software, said Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan on Thursday, the International Day for Consumers' Rights and Interests.... [More] [Back To Top]

CleanTech Innovation, Inc, a China-based U.S. company and manufacturer of wind towers, went public, in early July 2010, through a reverse merger - a private company purchasing a public shell company, thereby avoiding the requirements of an initial public offering.... [More] [Back To Top]