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Trademarks
The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore has rejected an opposition from Starbucks to a trademark application from a Japanese manufacturer of dairy products. 29 November 2017
Trademarks
Coca-Cola is facing accusations of being a “trademark bully” after reportedly asking an independent coffee shop in a UK town to stop using the word ‘Honest’. 29 November 2017
Copyright
The making available of copies of TV programmes on a cloud computing service constitutes a “communication to the public” and must therefore be authorised by the copyright owner, Europe’s highest court said today. 29 November 2017
Copyright
Berkeley Research Group, a strategic advisory and consulting firm, has hired Jeffery Stec to lead its IP practice. 29 November 2017
Copyright
Tokyo 2020 has already been embroiled in some embarrassing IP mishaps, but the Olympic Committee, police and customs are determined to tackle any IP infringement that might arise, as WIPR finds out. 29 November 2017
Patents
The patent backlog in Brazil has long caused concern in IP circles, but the government seems finally to have found a solution, as Rana Gosain and André Venturini of Daniel Legal & IP Strategy report. 29 November 2017
Patents
The number of patents protecting alcohol manufacturing methods has increased dramatically in the past few years, but producers should maintain other forms of IP protection too. WIPR reports. 28 November 2017
Patents
Benoît Battistelli’s tenure at the European Patent Office has been “undoubtedly positive” but there has been a “heavy-handed approach”, the chairman of the Administrative Council has said. 28 November 2017
Patents
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in a case between software company SAS Institute and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board over the inter partes review. 28 November 2017
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Three Chinese nationals have been charged with hacking the computers of credit agency Moody’s, German conglomerate Siemens and electronic manufacturer Trimble, and for theft of Trimble’s trade secrets. 28 November 2017
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