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US authorities are ramping up efforts to stop billions of fake goods entering the country by increasing searches at ports and making legislative threats, in an effort to pressurise the Chinese government to take more action. 27 January 2020
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A UK shopkeeper has opened a store called ‘Singh’sbury Local’, and faces a likely backlash from a similarly-named national supermarket giant. 27 January 2020
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Social media platform TikTok has hired former Microsoft attorney Erich Andersen as vice president and global general counsel. 27 January 2020
Patents
Patent law firm Harrity & Harrity has promoted patent attorneys Neil Kardos, Eli Mazour, and Elaine Spector into partner roles. 27 January 2020
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More than half of the solicitors and paralegals believe their career and promotion prospects are inferior to those of non-disabled colleagues, according to research published late last week. 27 January 2020
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A jury has reduced the damages Apple owes to WiLAN to $87.5 million following a retrial at the US District Court for the Southern District of California. 27 January 2020
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Alibaba Group’s intellectual property rights-protection efforts resulted in 1,045 IP-related leads being passed to law enforcement in 2019, and the closure of 2,029 facilities involved in the manufacturing and distribution of illicit goods, according to its annual Intellectual Property Rights report. 24 January 2020
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Fashion brand Amiri is suing Zara for $3 million at the US District Court for the Central District of California, accusing the retailer of “blatantly” copying the design of its skinny biker jeans. 24 January 2020
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Google and Amazon have again been accused of selling bootleg copies of “virtually every well-known recording artist from the 1930s through the 1960s”, in a series of copyright infringement lawsuits filed in the US this week. 24 January 2020
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The management company of “X Factor” winner James Arthur has succeeded in revoking a trademark of his name before the UK Intellectual Property Office. 24 January 2020
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