﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--RSS generated by max:presence  Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:07:52 GMT--><rss version="2.0" xmlns:blogChannel="http://backend.userland.com/blogChannelModule"><channel><title>Hudson Gavin Martin &gt; Jason Rudkin-Binks</title><link>http://www.hgmlegal.com</link><description>http://www.hgmlegal.com</description><item><title>Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Bill </title><link>http://www.hgmlegal.com/Articles/Intellectual Property/9/68/Copyright-Infringing-File-Sharing-Bill-.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[The issue of how New Zealand will deal with unauthorized sharing of copyright material via the internet has taken another interesting turn. Current enforcement measures under the Copyright Act 1994 are considered ineffective. Section 92A of the Act was intended to provide a way to address this problem by forcing ISPs to have a policy providing for account termination, but was met with a lot of public concern. Readers may recall that at the time of our last article of 15 July 2009 Government were considering amending the section. On Tuesday, Minister of Commerce Simon Power introduced the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Bill (the <strong>Bill</strong>) to Parliament which if passed will repeal s92A in favour of a new set of enforcement measures.]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:07:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Trans-Tasman Trade Mark Examination Project</title><link>http://www.hgmlegal.com/Articles/Intellectual Property/9/65/Trans-Tasman-Trade-Mark-Examination-Project.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[Recently announced cooperation between IPONZ and their Australian counterpart provides new momentum towards harmonized trade mark examinations.  As a result New Zealand businesses operating in Australia should be less likely to find applications for their brands treated differently across the Tasman.]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:07:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Update on the Trade Marks (International Treaties and Enforcement) Amendment Bill</title><link>http://www.hgmlegal.com/Articles/Intellectual Property/9/62/Update-on-the-Trade-Marks-International-Treaties-and-Enforcement-Amendment-Bill.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[Further to our previous article of 16 April 2009, the Select Committee has reported back with its views on the Bill which it recommends passing with a number of suggested amendments. We set out the more significant of these amendments below.]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:07:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New proposal on internet copyright infringement</title><link>http://www.hgmlegal.com/Articles/Simon Martin/47/55/New-proposal-on-internet-copyright-infringement.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[The struggle between rights holders and users of copyright works in the digital environment took another interesting turn yesterday when Minister of Commerce Simon Power announced a policy proposal aimed at reworking section 92A of the Copyright Act 1994.]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:07:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Changes to GTLDs</title><link>http://www.hgmlegal.com/Articles/Intellectual Property/9/27/Changes-to-GTLDs.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[		<span style="">Generic top level domains (or gTLDs) are the characters after the last “dot” in a web address, for instance .com or, more recently, .info and .biz</span>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:07:52 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>