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Amazon backs down over Kindle 2 audio feature to avoid likely copyright battle with Authors’ Guild (Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog) (Lessig) (Techdirt) (Michael Geist) (Excess Copyright) (Ars Technica) (Public Knowledge) (Excess Copyright)

Pirate Bay trial wraps up; Prosecutor calls for jail time (TorrentFreak) (TorrentFreak) (TorrentFreak) (Ars Technica) (Ars Technica) (TorrentFreak) (Techdirt) (Spicy IP) (Spicy IP) (ContentAgenda) (ContentAgenda)

Global

Anti-piracy actions closes yet more fan-created movie, television show translation sites – largest targets for shutdown in Israel and France (TorrentFreak)

Want to waive copyright? Creative Commons has a tool for you (Ars Technica)

Kevin Donovan explains OpenCourseWare (Public Knowledge)

Audio watermarks to locate camcording pirates (TorrentFreak)

How to turn customers into pirates (TorrentFreak)

A tale of two studies on file sharing (Techdirt)

So you want to be a developer of a Smartphone application? (IP finance)

ICANN addresses trade mark concerns (Managing Intellectual Property)

Non-commercial users file petition to form stake-holder group at ICANN (IP Justice)

ToyRUs buys Toys.com at auction for $5.1 million (TechCrunch)

Skittles.com uses Twitter search result page as home page (Venture Beat)

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) involved in row over RedPhone’s patent potentially covering new TLS standard (BLOG@IP::JUR)

UN: Less that 5% internet penetration in Africa (Intellectual Property Watch)

Rail Corporation NSW says train schedule iPhone app violates copyright (Techdirt)

ISPs stand up for content blocking, throttling (Ars Technica)

CRIA leads the way on January copyright lobbying (Michael Geist)

Another victory for plaintiffs in latest internet video-sharing lawsuit (Lehman Lee & Xu)

Internet blackout protests to ‘graduated response’ policy launched in Ireland and France (Michael Geist)

Federal Supreme Court publishes full text of decision in ‘bananabay’ case on use of AdWords, including question referred to ECJ (IPKat)

Software patenting in India – guest post by Essenese Obhan (Spicy IP)

Internet blackout protests to ‘graduated response’ policy launched in Ireland and France (Michael Geist)

YNet news website sues Mig News Russian language news website for copyright infringement (The IP Factor)

New Zealand parliament puts controversial copyright law on hold (IPKat) (Excess Copyright)

Telenor refuses to block The Pirate Bay despite IFPI’s threat of a lawsuit (TorrentFreak)

Pirate Bay trial wraps up; Prosecutor calls for jail time (TorrentFreak) (TorrentFreak) (TorrentFreak) (Ars Technica) (Ars Technica) (TorrentFreak) (Techdirt) (Spicy IP) (Spicy IP) (ContentAgenda) (ContentAgenda)

Federal Supreme Court outlines conditions under which party may exploit work results of competitor (International Law Office)

UK government backs open source (Michael Geist)

UK opposes copyright exemptions for mash-ups (Out-Law)

United States

Facebook adopts townhall format to allow users to comment and vote on new statement of rights and responsibilities (Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog)

Patent reform needed more than ever, says Google patent chief (Patently-O)

Patentable subject matter redux: Bilski 2009 (Patently-O)

Federal Communications Commission invites public to consider proposals to rein in ‘Wild West’ system of patent licensing for DTV products (Ars Technica)

Amicus brief asks High Court to ease Bilski test (Law360) (IP finance)

District Court S D California: Judge dismisses proposed antitrust class action against Qualcomm over cell phone technology patents approved by standards setting organisations, ruling plaintiff too far removed from alleged injury (Law360)

Agere Systems – Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp dismissed from LSI, Agere infringement suit against semiconductor companies over computer chip method patent (Law360)

Clear With Computers – CWC files lawsuit accusing eBay, Halliburton, Seiko Epson and others of infringement of patents related to sales that CWC have already asserted against slew of other companies (Law360)

IBM – SuperSpeed adds wilful infringement claim to lawsuit against IBM related to computer data caching (Law360)

Information Protection and Authentication of Texas – IPAT accuses Symantec Corp, Microsoft and others of infringing patents related to security software (Law360)

Microsoft – Amado appeals order setting reasonable royalty for Microsoft’s post-verdict sale of infringing products and reducing the number of units for which the royalty is owed (PATracer)

Microsoft – Microsoft files new 337 complaint against TomTom over portable navigation devices (ITC 337 Law Blog) (IAM)

Nokia – ITC ALJ Luckern denies motion for claim construction hearing in matter concerning 3G mobile handsets and components (ITC 337 Law Blog)

Performance Pricing – PP moves to dismiss IAC Search & Media from patent suit it filed against Google, Yahoo and others over online advertising technology (Law360)

Sanyo North America Corp – Sanyo, e.Digital settle flash memory patent suit (Law360)

Software Tree – Software Tree sues Red Hat, Hewlett-Packard, Genuitec and Dell over Java application (Law360)

Sun Microsystems – Implicit Networks accuses Sun Microsystems of infringing two patents relating to applet server software following Sun’s challenge to the patents’ validity (Law360)

RIAA staff cuts may be far deeper than reported (Hyperbot) (Excess Copyright)

MPAA study links piracy to gangs and terrorists (TorrentFreak)

Amazon – Amazon backs down over Kindle 2 audio feature to avoid likely copyright battle with Authors’ Guild (Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog) (Lessig) (Techdirt) (Michael Geist) (Excess Copyright) (Ars Technica) (Public Knowledge) (Excess Copyright)

RIAA – Jammie Thomas, RIAA told to settle; no retrial coming? (Ars Technica)

RIAA – Shahanda Moursy sues RIAA for fraud, abuse and legal sham (TorrentFreak)

Tenenbaum, Joel – Defence team’s unorthodox tactics in illegal file-swapping case incurs judge’s displeasure (Ars Technica)

District Court New Hampshire: Domaining registrar defeats cybersquatting lawsuit: Philbrick v eNom, Inc (Technology & Marketing Law Blog) (The Trademark Blog)

District Court N D Illinois: Attempted reverse domain hijacking not actionable: Frayne v Chicago (Chicago Intellectual Property Law Blog)

Mary Kay – Online resale of expired cosmetics may be trademark infringement: Mary Kay v Weber (Technology & Marketing Law Blog)

Psion – Dell requests cancellation of Psion’s NETBOOK registration (Canadian Trademark Blog)

Psion – Psion wants Intel’s netbook.com under cybersquatting statute (Domain Name Wire)