
A pest control firm director in Singapore succeeded in having his conviction for copyright offences overturned - some 18 months after his death from a heart attack.Justice Choo Han Teck overturned the convictions of Mr Michael Chew Choon Leng, his firm Alterm Consortech and an employee of distributing specifications and drawings of a system to prevent termite intrusion into buildings, without the consent of the copyright owner - giving all three "benefit of the doubt" and that the charges had not been properly proved . He ordered fines of $21,000, $32,000 and $8,000 be returned.The defendant's widow had persisted with the appeal, saying it was of utmost importance to have his name "cleared" of the "shadow of criminal convictions".

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Yahoo Inc.'s Southeast Asian unit has agreed to pay unspecified damages and legal costs to settle a lawsuit filed by Singapore Press Holdings Ltd over copyright infringement. The move marks a reversal of Yahoo's position on the case - the U.S. Internet firm had initially denied wrongdoing when Singapore's largest newspaper company sued in November 2011 on claims that Yahoo had reproduced SPH news content without permission. In a statement published Monday on its website, Yahoo Southeast Asia Pte. Ltd. acknowledged that its Singapore news website had "reproduced content from SPH newspapers without approval," and has undertaken not to "knowingly or intentionally infringe SPH copyrights." The Internet firm didn't disclose the financial terms of the settlement.
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China received nearly 140,000 new software copyright registrations in 2012, a year-on-year increase of 27.33%, according to the latest figures. The figures were revealed on Monday in a report on China's software copyright registrations last year, which was drafted by the Copyright Protection Center of China.

- About 50% of EU industries are IPR intensive
- IPR-intensive industries account directly for 26% of all jobs in the EU – around 56 million direct jobs. With the addition of 20 million indirect jobs, 1 in 3 of all EU jobs rely on IPR intensive industries.
- These industries generated almost 39% of total economic activity (GDP) in the EU, worth €4.7 trillion
- IPR-intensive industries pay higher remuneration than non-IPR intensive industries, with a wage premium of more than 40%. The average weekly remuneration in IPR-intensive industries is €715, compared with €507 in non-IPR intensive industries
- IPR-intensive industries account for 90% of the EU’s trade with the rest of the world


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