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Octimine is a patent search system that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to conduct sophisticated patent searches. Dennemeyer explains how it works. 27 November 2019
Patents
The Labour Party has obtained confidential documents from trade negotiations between the UK government and the US, which detail the US position regarding IP provisions. 27 November 2019
Patents
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation monitors what is going on in courts all over the country and periodically issues so-called “resolutions”. Vladimir Biriulin of Gorodissky & Partners reviews the most recent, which deals with IP. 27 November 2019
Trademarks
The CJEU recently confirmed that where customers are ‘targeted’ can be the basis for deciding jurisdiction in online EU trademark infringement cases, as Jeremy Blum and Marc Linsner of Bristows explain. 27 November 2019
Trademarks
The EU Intellectual Property Office Board of Appeal has sided with the publisher of Vogue magazine in a trademark cancellation appeal. 27 November 2019
Copyright
According to Regulation 6/2002 of December 2001 on Community designs or the Directive 98/71/EC of October 1998 on the legal protection of designs, applied arts can benefit from a plurality of protections originating from design right and copyright, with each protection subject to its own specific rules. 27 November 2019
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A global geographical indication system operated by the World Intellectual Property Organization, which provides protection for names identifying the geographic origin of products such as coffee, tea, fruits, and cloth, will come into force in February 2020. 27 November 2019
Jurisdiction reports
On September 5, 2019, in the matter AMS Neve v Heritage Audio, the Court of Justice of the European Union clarified the question of jurisdiction in cases where the defendant has committed several potentially infringing actions in more than one EU member state, for example by offering goods on the internet, or by sending an email offer to a customer in another member state. 27 November 2019
Copyright
Italian brand Versace has taken fast-fashion company Fashion Nova to court in a bid to “redress the flagrant infringement of legendary fashion designer Versace’s iconic apparel”. 27 November 2019
Jurisdiction reports
A landmark judgment was recently passed by a special five-judge bench of the Delhi High Court in the case of Carlsberg Breweries v Som Distilleries and Breweries wherein it overruled an earlier judgment passed by a three judge bench in Mohan Lal v Sona Paint & Hardwares. 27 November 2019
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