Tag: IP
Made.com faces final curtain, Next buys IP and website
Made faces The Final Curtain Online furniture retailer Made.com has gone into administration, leading to hundreds of job losses and customers in the dark over refunds. The administrators PWC said there will be 399 job losses, most of which are redundancies announced today. 79 employees who had resigned and were working…
Apple to lose iPhone trademark in Brazil to Android "iPhone" makers
iPhones in Brazil may soon look very, very different to the ones Apple are currently selling, as the Cupertino firm may be set to lose the trademark to a rival Brazilian manufacturer. The Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) in Brazil…
Pirate Bay founders fined a further £87,500
Pirate Bay founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij have been fined a further one million Swedish kronor (£87,500) after failing to heed a court order asking that the torrent site be shut down. EMI Music, Universal Music, Sony BMG and…