08/27/07 IP News

I need to catch up on cases, but I couldn't help but post this:

• Dale Spender, an Australian researcher and writer on new technologies, bemoans that the U.S. has set the international rules of intellectual property after first capitalizing on IP theft as a means of development for itself. -- On Line Opinion (Australia)

So, while I'm at it, a few more:

• Britney Spears' new fragrance, marketed as the word believe in green with a pink letter i, is running into a bit of trademark trouble with the social charity known as Mondonation and their T-shirts, characterized by the word believe in green with a pink letter i. -- Counterfeit Chic
• To simplify lengthy procedures and improve efficiency, China's reformulating its trademark law for the third time since the 80's. -- China Daily
• The iPhone has already been cracked by, who else?, a teenager. -- Freedom to Tinker
• Antigua has again won a WTO dispute with the U.S. about the legality of the U.S.'s ban on Internet gambling -- a huge source of income for the small tourist country -- and is now asking the WTO that if the U.S. refuses to go along with the ruling can Antigua be allowed to not go along with the sanctity of U.S. IP by creating a legal counterfeiting enterprise as a means to make up for the billions it has lost to the ban. -- NYTimes