INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

Coffeehouses and cafes with public Internet access will not be affected by the coming Six-Strikes anti-piracy scheme, but not all businesses will be subject to the same clemency.

Kim Dotcom has announced that he will launch "Mega," a secure, encrypted file-sharing site being billed as follow-up to his wildly popular Megaupload.com website, which was shut down last year by United States authorities who charged him and several other Megaupload leaders with criminal copyright infringement.

The Six Strikes campaign by Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) to combat online piracy, long-awaited, is coming in weeks.

Academy award season is a time for gorgeous dresses, glamorous celebrities drinking champagne and leaked movies. Lots of leaked movies.

Copyright enforcers in Ireland are trying to convince the country’s Internet service providers to block access to The Pirate Bay, a move that would likely be met with significant skepticism in the United States.

MakerBot has pulled plans for the lower receiver of an AR-15 semi automatic rifle from the Thingiverse on Thursday, saying that "recent events served as the impetus" to enforce the company's terms of service.

All the fear among online pirates and torrent websites appears to have been for naught with the announcement Wednesday that the dreaded “six strike” policy will, at least for now, be suspended.

Apple's second patent lawsuit against Samsung targets eight devices including the Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note and Galaxy S2, and a host of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab range. Reports streaming in indicate that the iPhone maker is now keen to add Google’s Jelly Bean 4.1 Android build as well.

After moving from servers to the Cloud, Pirate Bay now claims to be impervious to government raids.

New information leaked from AT&T reveals that the major Internet service provider will start warning customers who are being monitored for illegally downloading copyrighted files beginning on Nov. 28, which is now seen as the unofficial start date for the telecoms' six-strike policy to combat online piracy.

Apple has secured the patent for the third version of slide-to-unlock patent, with patent number 8,286, 103 issued Wednesday, The Verge has reported.

Fans of the popular BitTorrent site the Pirate Bay had reason to be concerned when two of the site’s most visible employees failed to show up for a scheduled appearance in Malaysia.

The major Internet providers are nearing the launch of their “six strikes” campaign to stem losses from illegal file sharing.

The recently restored Pirate Bay is running a Republican created anti-Obama ad from the American Future Fund.

A patent application filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Thursday indicates that Apple is working on a unique set of headphones that can withstand the rigors of athletic activity eliminating the need for cords, AppleInsider has reported.

The Pirate Bay returns online after a two-day-long power outage.

In a court filing Monday, South Korean tech giant Samsung added the latest iPhone 5 to an existing patent-infringement lawsuit against Apple, claiming that the device had infringed certain wireless and feature patents held by the company.

The Department of Finance Canada accidentally began running advertisements this week on The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing site with a long history of legal trouble because of its hosting of copyright-infringing BitTorrents.

BitTorrent and link-sharing sites like Demonoid, BitJunkie and Megaupload have all been shut down, but they are still the targets of anti-piracy organizations.

Last week's arrest of Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm was originally reported to be related to anti-piracy laws, but new reports claim that the BitTorrent download site creator is in custody over a hacking operation, which released the tax information of 9,000 Swedish people.

After Gottfrid Svartholm was arrested in Cambodia, the Internet was awash with rumors of governments working together to combat online piracy. Those rumors appeared to be confirmed Wednesday when it was announced Sweden would give Cambodia $59 million after the news broke that the Pirate Bay co-founder would be extradited.