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Netflix has been hit by a new zero-day phishing scam using fake Netflix branding, with security firm MailGuard warning that the popular global video streaming service has become a favourite vehicle for email fraudsters.

Changes in patent, trademark and design practices in the wake of Britain's decision to leave the European Union are likely to be fairly limited and easily manageable, according to IP experts.

Oracle chief executive Safra Catz told a trial in California on Monday that the database giant did not buy Sun Microsystems so it could sue Google.

IT services vendor Datacom has been contracted to deliver contact centre services to the Intellectual Property rights agency, IP Australia.

Valve has all but confirmed the highly anticipated Half-Life 3 through a trademark filing for the game in Europe.

Apple has lodged a trademark application for the term 'startup' in Australia, as the tech giant attempts to take ownership of the word worldwide.

The opening up of the global top level domain (gTLD) space could be a boon for scammers and a major headache for well known brands that must protect their online identity from spurious lookalikes created with malicious intent.

In Icons' "12in collectible figure" of Steve Jobs won't be going on sale after all.

The original developer of the Koha open source integrated library system (ILS) says he feels a mixture of sadness and anger over the attempt by an American defence contractor to trademark the name Koha in New Zealand.

Australians often look down on New Zealand - the latter has much less land mass and about a fifth of the population of its bigger cousin across the Tasman. But when it comes to resisting the dictates of flat-track bullies, the Kiwis often outscore the others.

The phenomenal growth in the use of Linux in the embedded market means that many people use and sell the kernel without knowing they are doing so. Others are aware, but choose to stay quiet, knowing that they are, in one way or another, not keeping to the terms of the licence under which Linux is published.

With the release of version 4 for the operating system for its handheld devices, Apple has renamed it iOS.