Intellectual Property News Roundup 18. Bringing you the best from the web.
Wiltshire charity worker Lynda Beaven, who created crystal tears to adorn poppies, is accused of violating trademark rights by using the poppy to raise funds for a different charity, according to this article.
On the subject of charity, read here about how counterfeit toys are being donated to a children’s Christmas charity appeal as they cannot legally be given away in the UK due to trademark law.
Software patents are being used and overused as weapons in patent wars; does this hinder the innovation of software developed by small companies? For more details on that, click here.
Also in technology, this article explains how producers of the long-awaited, first 3D Bollywood film ‘Ra. One’ are being accused of basing their superhero on the ideas of TV scriptwriter Yash Patnaik. At least they didn’t copy Captain Feasible!!
Is online spying increasing? Reports of information being stolen by China and Russia are becoming increasingly common. Read more about this here. Threats are posed to many industries, here is an article describing the threat to the chemical industry.