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Trademarks
The Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 offers foreign brand owners new tools to remove problematic marks from the US register, but it could also pose challenges, explain Brett Heavner and Yinfei Wu of Finnegan. 12 March 2021
Patents
The UK high court has revoked two British American Tobacco e-cigarette patents for obviousness, concluding they lack an “inventive step” over an existing Philip Morris International patent. 11 March 2021
Patents
Australia has unveiled plans to expand the technologies in which international research and development collaboration will face increased scrutiny to protect the country’s IP. 11 March 2021
Patents
Computer-implemented simulations are patentable but the applicant must show that the invention addresses a technical issue, the European Patent Office has determined. 11 March 2021
Patents
The Federal Circuit has affirmed a Facebook win over Australian patent assertion company Uniloc in a dispute over an instant-messaging patent. 10 March 2021
Trademarks
EasyGroup, the holding company behind the "easy" family of brands including easyJet, has lost its bid to invalidate a trademark at the UK Intellectual Property Office. 10 March 2021
Patents
AI is a key driver in the fourth industrial revolution, but right now the patentability of many AI systems and projects remains nebulous. 10 March 2021
Copyright
In the wake of an important ruling for copyright owners and their licensees handed down by the Court of Justice for the European Union, IP lawyers have told WIPR that the decision is likely to have significant ramifications for rights owners. 10 March 2021
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Artificial Intelligence has finally come of age and is becoming increasingly prevalent in driving revolutionary innovation across a broad range of technologies including medical diagnosis, drug discovery, image/speech processing, digital security, industrial control processes and autonomous vehicles. 9 March 2021
Patents
Samsung has been ordered to pay $62.7m in damages by a Texas court for infringing two OLED display patents owned by Dublin-based tech licensing firm Solas OLED. 9 March 2021
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