Intellectual property - such as patents, and copyright - is another bugbear.

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Although it would have made even more when instead of design patents everyone asserted trademark and copyright.

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The government will propose deleting section 52 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 - which could have some major implications.

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The Newzbin case was brought under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act.

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Intellectual property, which consists of copyright, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets, has always been an important aspect of games.

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It wants non-commercial activity to be exempt from copyright, a ban on DRM technologies and a ban on gene patents.

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If the Fashion Bill is enacted into law, designers would be well-advised to continue pursuing the foregoing copyright and trademark registrations, but would have to reconsider pursuing design patents based on cost considerations and whether the useful life of each relevant design is expected to last more than the three years of copyright protection provided by the Fashion Bill.

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What really makes this entirely delicious is that there are many people who have said that TRIPS, this idea of adding copyright to the WTO, was the wrong way to go about protecting copyrights and patents.

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