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Koger v. HWM: significant Irish software case on competing with former employer
This week’s big intellectual property news might have been IRMA v. UPC, but last week saw another major judgment in Irish IP law: on Friday 8 October 2010, Mr. Justice Feeney gave judgment in Koger...
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Do you own your wedding album?
You might think this a silly question. Of course you own your cherished wedding or civil partnership ceremony photographs. But how far does that ownership extend? Do you have the right to make copies...
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Has the Irish Government introduced #3strikes legislation? (Update: No)
[Updates at end] It appears that the Irish Government has implemented or is about to implement a significant change to the Copyright & Related Rights Acts 2000 to 2007 by statutory instrument on...
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Battle of the bakers
It’s rare enough for an intellectual property dispute to make it to court in Ireland, so the new proceedings taken by McCambridge against Brennans over allegedly similar packaging are of interest....
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Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation (brief) consultation on...
[Updated 23/06/11] In the (literally) last days of the previous Government, a rumour shot around that the then Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation was about to sign a statutory instrument...
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Battle of the Bakers: Round 2 (and an interesting update re Round 1)
Exhibit A: McCambridge bread I had assumed that the McCambridge v. Brennan brown bread case was solely one of intellectual property infringement but the judgment of Mr Justice Peart, which has now been...
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Twitter and corporate accounts
The Daily Business Post has published some of my thoughts on the Irish perspective to the PhoneDog v. Kravitz case, in which a company is suing a former employee for his use of what was a corporate...
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Stop SOPA Ireland
I’ve written some posts before on Irish developments in the music industry’s new approach to copyright infringement (targeting ISPs). A ministerial order which would provide the courts with wide,...
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The strange, hypocritical attitude of the Irish Government to copyright, the...
[Updated, at end] The introduction yesterday of an amendment to the Copyright & Related Rights Acts has been in the works for a long time (posts here, here and here). The issue has generated quite...
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Instagate
Instagram has courted controversy this week by announcing changes to its terms and conditions. There are clauses in Instagram’s new terms which are likely to cause them difficulty with privacy and...
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Getting intellectual property right
There were newspaper reports yesterday of Damien O’Regan’s proceedings against Andy Quirke and RTÉ arising out of the Damo character played by the former and broadcast by the latter (O’Regan v. Quirke...
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Tobacco packaging and intellectual property law
Misty water-colored memories, of the way we were The Oireachtas is currently considering a draft law that would introduce mandatory “plain packaging” of tobacco products. Last week, the Law Society...
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Update on plain packaging
Further to my recent post about the submissions of the Law Society on plain packaging of tobacco products to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children, the below letter was sent yesterday...
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Time to end willful ignorance on tobacco packaging and lobbying
Controversy over the submissions of the Law Society on proposed plain packaging law for tobacco products continues. It seemed, initially, that the Law Society was going to take the concerns raised by...
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Objections to the proposed Irish tobacco plain packaging law: an overview
Ireland is obliged by international law to reduce smoking. In the last decade we took the initiative by restricting advertising and sponsorship and introducing a workplace ban. Current Government...
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