Category: Canada

EU Reaffirms Commitment to ACTA

The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was signed by just eight countries over the weekend. The European Commission, which has been negotiating the treaty on

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Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement- Controversial Beyond Its Subject Matter

This article discusses how negotiations to establish the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a treaty aiming to establish international standards on intellectual property rights and enforcement, have taken place behind closed doors outside of established international bodies such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and have attracted a substantial amount of controversy.

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Facebook patent

Facebook have been granted a patent entitled Dynamically providing a news feed about users of a social network. The US patent. US7669123, was filed 11

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