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As the Madrid Protocol welcomes its 106th member, Sarah Morgan investigates the system’s popularity in Latin America. 28 October 2019
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Semiconductor technology company Power Integrations has announced a settlement of its patent disputes with ON Semiconductor and its subsidiary, Fairchild Semiconductor, in which it will receive a payment of $175 million. 25 October 2019
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A landmark US economic espionage trial has allowed a Chinese chipmaker to review the trade secrets it is accused of stealing from US computer company Micron. 25 October 2019
Patents
Apple must face patent infringement claims brought by Japanese electronics company Maxell, a Texas federal court has ruled. 25 October 2019
Trademarks
Virgin Enterprises has filed a trademark infringement claim against a cosmetics retailer in the US just months after it won a lawsuit against the same company in the UK. 25 October 2019
Copyright
Justin Bieber has settled with a photographer who claimed the singer had infringed his copyright by posting a paparazzi picture of himself to his Instagram. 25 October 2019
Trademarks
The creator of the Rubik’s Cube, Rubik's Brand, has lost its EU 3D trademark after a Court of Justice of the European Union appeal declared it invalid. 24 October 2019
Trademarks
Reality TV star Kylie Jenner has filed a trademark application for the phrase “rise and shine”, as well as an alternative spelling “riiise and shiiinee”, off the back of a viral video she posted on social media earlier this month. 24 October 2019
Copyright
US singer Lizzo, the artist behind the record-breaking single “Truth Hurts”, has hit back at a trio of songwriters who are making an “illegitimate claim to co-own” her work. 24 October 2019
Patents
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has backed Philips in an attempt by Google to have one of the Dutch conglomerate’s audio encoding patents invalidated. 24 October 2019
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