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Gowling WLG IP head leaves for Trevisan & Cuonzo after 25 years

Experienced of counsel will support firm’s international plans and UPC practice | New hire to Milan office spent over four decades at firms that eventually became Gowling WLG.   8 March 2024

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Maddocks adds brand and advertising IP expert to Sydney office

Firm aims to strengthen consumer markets offering with specialist advice on marketing and brand protection | Former Ashurst counsel has expertise in all aspects of product lifecycle.   7 March 2024

Future of IP

Sing for your supper: How music rights became the smart play

A catalogue buy-out craze, new licensing methods and a surge in streaming have seen Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber cash in on a music rights revolution. Muireann Bolger finds out more.   6 March 2024

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Firm welcomes six-partner exodus from A&O ahead of merger

‘Exceptional team’ brings tech IP litigation clout to Paul Hastings | Clients include Google, Meta and Marvell Semiconductor | Moves come on eve of massive A&O merger with Shearman & Sterling.   5 March 2024

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Squire Patton Boggs adds electronics and software expert

Partner joins the IP and technology practice in Palo Alto | Brings expertise in electronics, software technology, and AI and machine learning | Latest addition follows the arrival of another tech counsel in Ohio.   1 March 2024

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Bird & Bird relocates London patent litigator to co-head San Francisco office

IP partner will continue to assist clients with legal needs outside the US | He will co-head San Francisco office which launched in 2018.   4 March 2024

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DLA Piper adds fashion law pioneer to Los Angeles IP practice

New hire joins from Nixon Peabody | Los Angeles office partner brings expertise in copyright, trademarks, trade secrets and crisis management.   27 February 2024

Trademarks

UK diverges from EU on 'acquiescence' in trademark dispute

A dispute between cleaning companies saw the Court of Appeal depart from CJEU jurisprudence to clarify when acquiescence starts to run, say Andrea Carrera and Jennifer Bryant of Fieldfisher.   20 February 2024

Trademarks

'Back to the Future' DeLorean haunts film studio with trademark gain

Rights owner of Back to the Future car wins claim that film studio NBCUniversal infringed its trademarks | California judge finds no grounds for breach of contract between the pair but suggests further opportunity for DeLorean Estate to prove infringement at trial.   23 February 2024

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Orrick expands litigation team with ITC specialist

Joshua Pond is eighth partner to join IP litigation practice since start of last year | Former Crowell & Moring partner is known for ITC Section 337 investigations.   22 February 2024

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