The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is still on the move across the globe. ACTA has a similar aim to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) twin bills that were recently halted in the US Congress due to an effective showing of public discontent. The US... Read More

Google products may be free, but they will cost you. On January 24, 2011, via blog, Google announced that it will consolidate its privacy policy across all of its products, effectively sharing patterns of usage between products such as G-mail, YouTube, Blogger, Google+ and Google Search when you are logged... Read More

On Friday, January 20, 2012, the House Judiciary Committee issued an announcement that the controversal Protect IP Act (PIPA) bill would be placed on hold. Its proposed sister act, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), was halted in the U.S. Congress in December 2011, with a projected review by the House  Judiciary... Read More

The major challenge to Russia's 18-year bid for World Trade Organization (WTO) membership was the nation's weak intellectual property (IP) protections. Russia's commitment to greater IP protections was a major requirement for U.S. support of its WTO membership. Russia now has until June 15, 2012 to domestically ratify its WTO... Read More