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Hear ye, hear ye: the 204th edition of Never Too Late is off the press! Patents The big talk of the week was all about FRAND, specifically Unwired Planet v Huawei :  the Court of Appeal  has upheld  Birss J's  decision  from last April, dismissing all three grounds of appeal. The AmeriKat briefly summarised the findings of the Court in   Court of Appeal reaffirms UK as SEP litigation hotspot in upholding Birss J in Unwired Planet ; Kat friends  Jane Mutimear  and  Richard Vary   provided a deeper analysis in    Much Ado About FRAND: What you need to know about today's Court of Appeal Unwired Planet decision ; and finally the AmeriKat shared that AIPPI is organising the following event :  AIPPI UK Rapid Response Event: Unwired Planet v Huawei - 13 November at 6PM .  In her comment   Lord Kitchin applies the "markedly different" infringement approach in Actavis v Eli Lilly in Icescape v Ice-World , InternKat Rose...

As readers will know, over the past few years, Australia has considered or has introduced a number of changes to its copyright law. The latest news concerns online piracy and how to tackle copyright infringements occurred via the internet more effectively by means of enhanced website blocking orders.  Katfriend Fiona Philiips ( Fiona Phillips Law ) explains the background to and content of a bill that was introduced a few days ago. Here’s what Fiona writes: Australia has traditionally experienced relatively high levels of copyright infringement. In 2015, the Australian Government introduced site blocking as a remedy into the Australian  Copyright Act . The scheme enables rights holders to apply to the court to order service providers to block access to foreign websites which have the primary purpose of infringing (or facilitating infringement of) copyright. It is largely modeled on the successful site blocking regime in the UK. Since its introduction, the scheme has been used...

Does a blocking injunction against an intermediary only concern the domain names indicated in the relevant order or can it be also considered as encompassing future infringements committed through other domain names? This is the question that the Milan Court of First Instance (Tribunale di Milano) had to address in the context of interim proceedings between publisher Mondadori and a number of major Italian internet access providers (ISPs). It provided an interesting response in two twin decisions [available here ] issued last June and which the IPKat has learned about thanks to Katfriend Valentina Borgese . Background In 2017 publisher Mondadori requested the Milan Court of First Instance to issue an interim injunction against a number of major Italian internet access providers (ISPs) consisting of an order to adopt the most appropriate measures to block access to a platform and all the different domain names ( alias ) under which it operated and from which unauthorized copies of Monda...