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The demand for more efficient, cost-effective, and innovative ways of managing IP advice and routine administrative tasks has transformed the IP services industry. The COVID-19 pandemic will only accelerate this trend, as Reinhard Ottway of NovumIP explains. 4 January 2021
Copyright
A Chinese research institute wants to mark December 31 as Anti-Plagiarism Day, after a controversy involving an author and screenwriter. 4 January 2021
Copyright
Apple has failed to win a copyright infringement case against security company Corellium, after the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida dismissed the technology company’s suit on December 29. 4 January 2021
Patents
Samsung has told a Texas federal judge that he must respect a Chinese court’s order in a global licensing dispute with Ericsson on royalties for 4G and 5G patents. 4 January 2021
Trademarks
Facebook will repatriate most of its IP from the Republic of Ireland back to the US by liquidating three companies at the centre of a tax dispute about offshore profit shifting, the social media company has confirmed. 4 January 2021
Copyright
Rihanna has found herself at the centre of a copyright lawsuit which revolves around an Instagram post advertising the singer’s fashion brand, Fenty. 24 December 2020
Trademarks
New Balance’s collaboration with celebrity Jaden Smith is no longer the target of a counterfeiting complaint, but the trainers resulting from the partnership are still alleged to feature infringing trademarks. 24 December 2020
Patents
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has cancelled a win for Raytheon over General Electric in a now sealed opinion, originally published yesterday, December 23. 24 December 2020
Trademarks
CITMA is celebrating a major victory on Brexit in the wake of the UKIPO’s latest “address for service” announcement. Kate O’Rourke of Mewburn Ellis reports. 24 December 2020
Trademarks
While the number of patent applications at the USPTO has slowed considerably since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, trademark filings appear to be on a record-breaking track. Shanti Sadtler Conway and Aaron Schroeder of Kirkland & Ellis report. 24 December 2020
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