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Trademarks
The People’s Republic of China has joined TMview, the EU Intellectual Property Office’s free trademark design search engine, adding 32 million marks owned by the China National Intellectual Property Administration to the database. 20 May 2021
Patents
Courtland Merrill has joined Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s IP litigation practice as a partner. 19 May 2021
Trademarks
Proposals by the US Patent and Trademark Office to amend the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 in a bid to improve the integrity of the trademark register have been criticised by lawyers. 19 May 2021
Copyright
In a win for Italy’s soccer league Serie A, tech giant Google has agreed to remove apps that enable users to watch unauthorised broadcasts of live games. 19 May 2021
Trademarks
The ruling against the French fashion label in its trademark dispute with Huawei shows that risks to brands can come from further afield than they may expect, says Robert Reading of Clarivate. 19 May 2021
Trademarks
Epic Games has hit China-based augmented reality creator, Nreal with a lawsuit accusing it of infringing trademarks for branded software used to create 3D and immersive digital content. 18 May 2021
Trademarks
The US Supreme Court has denied a trademark applicant's appeal in an ongoing dispute with Coca-Cola that claimed the ruling in Arthrex also calls into question the constitutionality of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB). 18 May 2021
Patents
Rajvinder Jagdev and Peter FitzPatrick of Powell Gilbert consider how Google v Oracle, recently decided by the US Supreme Court, would play out in the UK, and caution against assuming the US position on fair use for software is widely applicable. 18 May 2021
Patents
A US International Trade Commission judge has issued an initial determination on the British American Tobacco lawsuit against Philip Morris, finding that PMI’s IQOS technology infringes two BAT patents. 17 May 2021
Trademarks
A Heineken subsidiary has agreed not to challenge a craft brewer’s “Tropical Bay IPA” trademark, laying to rest the bulk of a US federal lawsuit. 17 May 2021
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