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Trademarks
A Moroccan businessman has finally lost the right to use the name of the iconic Cuban cigar brand. Miguel Bibe of Inventa International explores the history of the dispute, and what it means for brand owners. 15 July 2021
Influential Women in IP
The president of The Law Society of England and Wales tells WIPR why the time has come for the sector to tackle systemic racism, embrace targets and deal with the fallout of COVID-19. 15 July 2021
Patents
Sony will have to defend its PlayStation 4 console from US patent infringement claims at district court proceedings, following a US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s decision to partly revisit the case. 14 July 2021
Patents
The UK Intellectual Property Office has launched a new digital IP renewal service today that promises to cut the time to renew IP rights from five days to five minutes. 14 July 2021
Patents
The European Commission is to unveil potential new regulation and/or a directive on standard-essential patents, after it criticised the present licensing system for its lack of transparency, unpredictability and inefficiency. 14 July 2021
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For new inventions, companies generally have the choice between filing a patent application and keeping the invention as a trade secret. Although the general factors for making that decision are well known, there are some nuances when the invention uses artificial intelligence. 13 July 2021
Patents
Huawei Technologies has settled its patent dispute with US tech company Verizon Communications after it filed two lawsuits alleging that patents covering computer networking, the downloading of security, and video communications had been infringed. 13 July 2021
Trademarks
Boohoo has failed to convince the UK Intellectual Property Office that a designer’s ‘Boo London’ trademark application could be confused with Boohoo’s branding. 13 July 2021
Patents
IP lawyers have welcomed the US Patent and Trademark Office’s call for comments on patent eligibility laws in the wake of concerns that controversial rulings over the past decade have negatively affected innovation. 13 July 2021
Copyright
Oracle has sued tech giant NEC of America in federal court for allegedly infringing copyrights and breaching a licence agreement related to its flagship database management software. 12 July 2021
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