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Trademarks and the Apple App Store
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Apple's "app store" continues to generate controversy through its rejections. I must agree with the following analysis that use of icons--especially as provided through an API expressly for that purpose should not violate trademark law (or copyright for that matter).
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Unravelling the Canadian Copyright Lobby
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Especially important to everyone in Canada - but important to everyone, since copyright and IP are increasingly international issues due to attempts at harmonization (WIPO, for example) - comes this expose by Michael Geist on the undue influence pro-copyright lobbyist organizations have had on Canadian policy documents.
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Business method patents rejected in Canada
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Michael Geist explains the current status of business method patents in Canada where, so far, they have been firmly rejected - unlike in the United States.
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