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Technology, Digital & E-Commerce

25/05/16

Three’s a crowd – Tinder sues threesome App 3nder

It appears Match Group, the owners of dating app Tinder, have or are shortly intending to launch trade mark infringement action in the UK against new threesome rival app 3nder. Tinder reportedly issued a cease and desist letter to 3nder in December 2015 demanding that 3nder shut down its website and remove all references to...

24/05/16

Facebook and Instagram win UDRP dispute concerning confusingly similar registered domain names in China

On 10 May 2016, the Administrative Panel of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the “Panel”) made its decision in relation to complaints filed by Facebook, Inc and Instagram, LLC concerning alleged infringements of their respective trade marks. By way of background, Facebook is the registered owner of the trade mark “FACEBOOK”, which was first...

11/05/16

Updates on Cases

There’ve been some developments in cases we’ve previously reported on. Here’s an update on the latest. Battle of the Giants: Oracle v Google The multibillion dollar copyright retrial case between Google and Oracle was back in court on Monday, to be heard before a jury. The case focusses on the Google Android OS, with Oracle...

19/04/16

Google Books a win: Media giant wins epic copyright battle against Authors Guild

On Monday, a US Supreme Court decision ended an eleven year battle between Google and the US Authors Guild, under which the Authors Guild had claimed Google’s epic book scanning project breached copyright laws by scanning without permission. Google began the scanning process in 2004 with the intention of including extracts in a searchable database. ...

29/03/16

Battle of the Giants – Oracle v Google

There have been some new developments in the long running stoush between Google and Oracle. Shortly after acquiring Sun Microsystems in 2010, Oracle sued Google for copyright infringement, accusing Google of copying the Java language APIs (or application programming interfaces) in its Android product. In 2015, Oracle successfully contended that software interfaces (the way software...