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Trademarks
Drake’s clothing brand October’s Very Own has taken wallet maker Bellroy to court over the use of an owl trademark. 9 March 2020
Influential Women in IP
Millicent Grant is a pioneer. Earlier this year, she became the first chartered legal executive to be appointed an Honorary Queen’s Counsel in the UK. 9 March 2020
Copyright
As International Women’s Day approaches, WIPR set out to discover exactly what the IP sector was doing to help forge a gender-equal world. 9 March 2020
Patents
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has refused to invalidate patents owned by the California Institute of Technology, dashing Apple’s hopes to escape liability for more than $800 million in damages. 6 March 2020
Patents
China’s National Intellectual Property Administration has announced it will not seek late fees for missed patent annuity payments, if the reason can be traced back to the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic. 6 March 2020
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An artificial intelligence startup has accused Facebook of hiring an employee, having him share the startup’s “secret sauce” trade secrets and then offering this technology as open-source code. 6 March 2020
Trademarks
The owner of the Burlington Arcade in London has scored a victory at the EU’s highest court, which cancelled several European Union Intellectual Property Office decisions in favour of German brand Burlington Fashion. 6 March 2020
Copyright
US-based internet service provider Charter Communications is pushing back against copyright infringement claims amounting to over $1 billion by Warner Bros Records, arguing that many recordings have been improperly registered. 5 March 2020
Patents
Anthony Levandowski, the former head of Uber’s self-driving unit, has been ordered to pay Google $179 million, after being accused of stealing trade secrets when he left Google’s self-driving subsidiary Waymo in 2016. 5 March 2020
Trademarks
The EU’s top court has handed a boost to Cypriot cheese makers in their efforts to block a trademark over its similarity to the name of halloumi cheese. 5 March 2020
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