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Trademarks
Consumer goods company Procter & Gamble is attempting to trademark acronyms including LOL and WTF for household and personal care goods. 24 August 2018
Patents
The characteristics of blockchain technology are an ideal fit for so-called smart contracts, which will have a large role to play in the licensing and sale of IP, says Alexander Walker of Taylor Wessing. 23 August 2018
Patents
The growing number of patents covering blockchain will cause uncertainty in the space if patent ownership is highly concentrated and licences are available only through licence assertions, warns Marc Kaufman of the Blockchain Intellectual Property Council. 23 August 2018
Copyright
Arno Hold will join AIPPI as executive director at its Zurich headquarters, Switzerland, on August 27. 23 August 2018
Copyright
Makeup artist Vlada Haggerty and Make Up For Ever have put an end to their trademark and copyright dispute over ‘dripping lip’ photographs. 23 August 2018
Patents
The US Patent and Trademark Office yesterday said its patent systems are “operational from a filing and fee payment perspective”, a week after the agency’s PALM database went offline. 23 August 2018
Patents
Two attorneys have joined Cozen O’Connor’s Seattle office from Seed IP Law Group, a law firm based in the Pacific Northwest. 23 August 2018
Trademarks
A chef on the BBC’s TV programme “Great British Menu” has called out his former self-titled restaurant over the trademarking of his name and the sale of licences to use his signature recipes. 23 August 2018
Patents
Technology multinational IBM has taken a licence to a patent at the centre of a dispute with a San Diego-based provider of security solutions in the internet of things. 23 August 2018
Patents
While courts continue to grapple with the confines of what constitutes a public disclosure, what we do know is that absolute secrecy is not required, says Rory Pheiffer of law firm Nutter. 23 August 2018
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