Tagged: Intellectual Property & News
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World Intellectual Property Day celebrates trailblazing innovators News
26.04.2012 Today is World Intellectual Property Day, a day to celebrate the visionary innovators around the globe, past and present, who have changed our lives down through the ages as a... -
Intel to acquire assets of supercomputing firm Cray News
25.04.2012 Semiconductor chip maker Intel has struck an agreement with supercomputer company Cray Inc to acquire assets related to its high-performance computing (HPC) interconnect... -
Press council chief to chair public meeting on ‘Irish SOPA’ News
20.03.2012 The deadline has been extended on a public consultation on a proposed Copyright Review that arose from the signing of the controversial statutory instrument dubbed the Irish... -
UCC shortlists finalists for Invention of the Year Award News
15.03.2012 University College Cork’s (UCC) Office of Technology Transfer has shortlisted the finalists for the university's Invention of the Year Award, which will take place on 27 March... -
Irish Govt to review copyright laws – Sherlock confirms News
29.02.2012 The Irish Government is to conduct a review of the existing copyright laws, Innovation Minister Sean Sherlock, TD, told Siliconrepublic.com today. The recent outcry over a... -
Gabriel Scientific gleans top innovation accolade News
29.02.2012 Life sciences company Gabriel Scientific has won the overall ‘Innovation of the Year’ Award at the Irish Times InterTradeIreland Innovation Awards. The Dublin-based firm has... -
EU Court of Justice to decide if ACTA breaches fundamental rights News
22.02.2012 The European Court of Justice is to review whether the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is incompatible with the EU’s fundamental rights and freedoms, the European...Categories: Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Consumer Tech, Communications, Games/Entertainment, Media -
Germany postpones decision to sign controversial ACTA treaty News
10.02.2012 As thousands of people in 200 European cities prepare to march in protest tomorrow against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Germany has delivered a potentially... -
Thousands protest ACTA, petition gets 300k signatures in 72 hours News
03.02.2012 Thousands of people will take to the streets in opposition to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on 11 February, a policy analyst for Access predicts. She warns ACTA... -
EU countries – including Ireland and Poland – sign ACTA treaty News
26.01.2012 The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) – which is seen by critics to be an international version of the controversial SOPA bill – has been signed by the EU and member...Categories: R&D, Online Business, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment, Consumer Tech -
Forget SOPA, Europe is about to ratify its bigger brother ACTA News
23.01.2012 Just as the SOPA and PIPA debate winds down in the US, the European Union is later this week set to work on ratifying a global intellectual property enforcement treaty: the... -
Lamar Smith decides to postpone SOPA ‘indefinitely’ News
20.01.2012 The lead sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation, Republican Senator Lamar Smith, has revealed he will be postponing a SOPA markup hearing on the bill after...Categories: Servers, Security, Legal Eagle, Legal, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment, Government -
Copyright holders seek ‘reasonable measures’ to halt piracy News
25.11.2011 UPDATE - Sources close to the entertainment industry locally, who are fighting to protect the rights of copyright holders in the face of wholesale piracy online, say yesterday’s... -
Apple cleared in patent case taken by HTC's S3 News
22.11.2011 The International Trade Commission has cleared Apple of charges alleging it violated HTC subsidiary S3’s intellectual property rights.Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Mobility, Legal, Intellectual Property, Hardware, Data Management, Computers -
Airtel acquires Australian aerospace firm’s radio IP News
23.08.2011 Dublin-based Airtel ATN, which makes communications software for the aerospace industry, has acquired the sole rights to intellectual property from Australian firm Aviation Data... -
Sigmoid Pharma in favour of unitary patent for EU News
26.07.2011 A start-up company headquartered at the Invent Centre incubator on the campus of Dublin City University, Sigmoid Pharma, is in favour of a unitary patent for the European Union.Tags: Intellectual Property, Patent -
Apple chief patent attorney to leave company News
12.07.2011 Next to sales, patents are the life’s blood of the technology industry so it is no small matter that the company’s chief patent attorney Richard ‘Chip’ Lutton Jr is leaving the... -
Intellectual property rights rules to change in Europe News
24.05.2011 The European Commission is to revamp the legal framework in which intellectual property rights (IPR) operate with the aim of promoting creativity and innovation. -
‘Open Minds’ to drive Ireland as innovation hub News
11.05.2011 Some of the world’s most prominent thought leaders are coming together to take part in a discussion series called ‘Open Minds’, with the aim of supporting the development of...Tags: Intellectual Property, Science, -
IT outsourcing sees dedication lost in organisations - survey News
10.05.2011 Some 77pc of IT professionals who work in organisations say their outsourcers have “made up” work in order to earn extra money, according to a survey taken at the recent...