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Trademarks
It is difficult to reconcile the EU General Court’s recent rulings in a case concerning Adidas’s three-tripe trademark with a previous decision surrounding five parallel stripes on a K-Swiss shoe, says Christian Tenkhoff of Taylor Wessing. 7 March 2018
Trademarks
London-based football club have been told that they cannot use their own name or initials for trademark reasons. 7 March 2018
Copyright
A case which attracted the attention of the US government has confirmed that the country’s copyright law applies in cases where content originating overseas is directed towards US viewers in violation of the rights of US copyright owners. 6 March 2018
Trademarks
A trademark registration used for a “look-alike” Pepsi product has fizzled out after PepsiCo won a case at the UK Intellectual Property Office. 6 March 2018
Patents
European Patent Office president Benoît Battistelli has ensured that a controversial term in an employment proposal has been dropped, just weeks before the EPO’s supervisory body, the Administrative Council, will deliberate the plan. 6 March 2018
Patents
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton has added Grace Pan to the firm’s New York City office as a partner in the patent litigation team. 6 March 2018
Copyright
British fashion brand Vivienne Westwood has apologised for using graphics created by two designers. 6 March 2018
Patents
More than 50 European signatories have joined an initiative to produce an industry-wide opinion on the best licensing practices for standard-essential patents. 5 March 2018
Copyright
After a comment from the founder of Anti Copying in Design, WIPR asked its readers whether imitation and infringement can ever be a good thing. 5 March 2018
Copyright
The Supreme People’s Court of China has vowed to increase efforts to tackle the infringement of IP rights, following the Chinese government’s announcement of plans to reform the country’s IP landscape. 5 March 2018
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