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Trademarks
The US Supreme Court won’t reconsider a precedential ruling on trade dress protection against the makers of Pocky biscuits. 2 November 2021
Copyright
Japanese Manga publisher Shueisha has asked technology company Google and internet service provider Hurricane Electric to disclose information about alleged copyright infringers to assist it in bringing a lawsuit against the perpetrators in Japan. 2 November 2021
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Uncovering the demographics of diversity trends within UK and US law firms. To what extent have financial compensation, credit and policies on utilisation rates boosted racial and gender equity? What is the current disparity between entry and partnership levels? Despite all the push for change, what are law firms still lacking? What measures still need to be put in place to drive race and gender equality? 2 November 2021
Patents
Indiana’s Purdue University has filed a lawsuit against Wolfspeed claiming that several of their semiconductor products infringe on two of their patents. 1 November 2021
Copyright
The UK has become the first member state to sponsor the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Creators initiative. 1 November 2021
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The Court of Justice of the European Union has, for the first time, held that individual parts of a whole product which have been disclosed to the public may be protected as unregistered Community designs. 1 November 2021
Trademarks
A case involving resold car parts forced Russia’s courts to revisit its IP exhaustion rules—with a positive outcome for trademark owners, says Vladimir Biriulin of Gorodissky & Partners. 29 October 2021
Copyright
The operator of non-profit TV streaming service Locast has agreed to pay $32 million to US television networks for rebroadcasting local TV channels. 29 October 2021
Patents
The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has launched a consultation on how the copyright and patent system should deal with Artificial Intelligence (AI). 29 October 2021
Copyright
Following a wave of lawsuits from ex-Marvel writers and artists attempting to win back copyrights of some of the company’s flagship characters, Disney retaliated with suits of its own in September, asking courts to invalidate their termination notices. 28 October 2021
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