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Penn State prevails in trademark dispute with Vintage Brand over retro logos

Jury finds online retailer infringed university’s marks and awards damages | Verdict a win for trademark owners as ‘ornamental use’ defence denied.   21 November 2024

Trade secrets

Google: Ex-engineer ‘touted dominion over the trade secrets he stole’

A former Google employee is accused of stealing trade secrets covering the Pixel range of devices and publicising them on social media | “I need to take unethical means to get what I am entitled to”, said ex-staffer.   21 November 2024

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EIP strengthens China practice with experienced patent litigator

Xiaofan Chen joins as a partner bringing nearly two decades of experience in Chinese and international patent law | Chen is one of the first patent litigators to be officially registered with the Supreme People’s Court in China.   21 November 2024

Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI faces first copyright suit in India over alleged scraping of news content

ANI says ChatGPT trained on copyrighted content and wrongly attributed sources of news stories | OpenAI responds that news provider placed on ‘block list’ since September.   20 November 2024

Trademarks

Tourism’s influence on defining the ‘relevant public’ in EUTM oppositions

How much impact does tourism have when assessing grounds for a trademark refusal? For some EU countries, a lot, explains João Pereira Cabral of Inventa.   20 November 2024

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‘Trade secrets can be emotional’: Seth Gerber, Morgan Lewis

WIPR sat down with the ‘big name’ attorney to explore record-breaking damages awards (and why so many are later overturned), legal challenges and what a Trump second term has in store.   20 November 2024

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Private equity eyes controlling interest in Anaqua

Nordic Capital has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire a controlling stake in the IP tech provider, unseating its current shareholders led by Astorg.   19 November 2024

Trade secrets

Motorola can’t enforce ‘multiple’ US Hytera damages in UK

Motorola sued China-based Hytera for trade secrets theft and poaching three engineers | Half-a-billion-dollar award under US Defend Trade Secrets Act given green light for international enforcement | UK court says it can’t enforce multiple awards under the US judgment.   19 November 2024

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UK firms Venner Shipley and AA Thornton combine

IP firms join under Venner Shipley name | New headcount totals 230 people across six UK offices and operations in Germany, Spain.   19 November 2024

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Kathi Vidal to rejoin previous firm as partner following USPTO departure

Vidal to return to Silicon Valley litigation department and advise on AI issues | Firm is ‘thrilled to welcome Kathi back’ and looking forward to benefitting from her leadership expertise.   19 November 2024

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