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Trademarks
A computer scientist’s estate has appealed an award handed to self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright, who won a lawsuit to secure IP rights to the technology. 11 April 2022
Trademarks
The Boy Scouts of America can use its gender-neutral marketing to advertise programmes without causing consumer confusion with trademarks held by the Girl Scouts, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has ruled. 8 April 2022
Influential Women in IP
In a landmark development, Ketanji Brown Jackson will become the first African-American woman to serve on the US Supreme Court in its 233-year history. 8 April 2022
Copyright
The musician’s notable win in the ‘Shape of You’ case underscores that legal disputes over pop songs can’t derive from coincidental similarities, say Mark Kramer, Mark Nichols, Georgia Carr of Potter Clarkson. 8 April 2022
Patents
While the UK’s innovation may have fallen behind other countries over the past two years, there is still cause for optimism, as Karl Barnfather of Withers & Rogers explains. 7 April 2022
Trademarks
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has given Fiat Chrysler Automobiles a chance to revisit a“first sale” defence against a Bluetooth standards organisation's claim of trademark infringement. 7 April 2022
Patents
More innovation is urgently required to tackle the growing problem of climate change, the World Intellectual Property Organization has said in its latest World Intellectual Property Report. 7 April 2022
Patents
A new referral to the European Patent Office’s enlarged board of appeal will determine whether post-filed data can be used to support inventive steps in patentability, as Sarah Gibbs of Appleyard Lees reports. 6 April 2022
Copyright
Singer Ed Sheeran has prevailed in a major copyright dispute over his 2017 chart topper “Shape of You” at the High Court of England and Wales. 6 April 2022
Patents
Kathi Vidal has been confirmed as the new permanent director of the US Patent and Trademark Office by the US Senate in a voice vote yesterday. 6 April 2022
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