The AXIOM

In this issue...
Copyrights and the Internet
Design Patents
Domain Names
Client notebook
"Rhapsody is the future of music."
- Fortune Magazine
 
 
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After winning a Preliminary Injunction against his former employers, international mortgage reduction expert Harj Gill launches SpeedEquity.com 
 

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"Baby's Got backing: Hot tot circles are buzzing about celeb-stamped mom-preneur Heather Stouffer."
-DC Magazine
News from the 8th Floor
What's new at AXIOS 
 
AXIOS welcomes its newest associates: 
Shannon M. Whitemore and Dylan O. Adams.
 
AXIOS Member Jefferson Coulter launches Copyright or Wrong, a blog on copyright law and policy.
 
Take it down!
Using the Digital Mellinieum Copyright Act.
 
The Digital Mellinium Copyright Act ("DMCA") provides copyright holders with the authority to force web sites hosting infringing content to remove it from their site or face financial liability for its infringment.
 
 
Design Patents
The New Black.
 

A number of creative properties, such as furniture and clothing articles, cannot be protected through copyright because they have a utilitarian function. However, you can protect them with a design patent. A US design patent protects the ornamental design of an object having practical utility.

 

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Take your case to Geneva
Protecting your brand online.
 
The World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO") provides a cost-effective remedy for trademark owners-the ability to force transfer of a domain name. Cybersquatters beware.