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Trademarks
WIPR readers are in agreement that there has been a recent “explosion in counterfeiting” for brand owners. 14 November 2016
Copyright
US-based law firm Crowe & Dunlevy has hired Shawn Dellegar as a director in the firm’s intellectual property practice group in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 14 November 2016
Copyright
Computer software company Adobe Systems has filed a lawsuit against a group of alleged software pirates and counterfeiters. 11 November 2016
Patents
Canada-based licensing firm Wi-LAN has acquired a patent portfolio from Panasonic. 11 November 2016
Copyright
Law firm Squire Patton Boggs has hired Monika Kuschewsky as a partner in the firm’s data privacy and cybersecurity group, and as a member of the intellectual property and technology practice in Brussels, Belgium. 11 November 2016
Copyright
Law firms Arnold & Porter and Kaye Scholer announced yesterday that they will combine their firms. 11 November 2016
Trademarks
The shape of the Rubik’s Cube is not a trademark, according to a decision by Europe’s highest court. 10 November 2016
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Film production studios Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros Home Entertainment have sued some alleged pirates in the US who have infringed their copyright by selling unauthorised copies of their films online. 10 November 2016
Copyright
After Donald Trump’s presidential election win, one lawyer said it is premature to speculate on the president-elect’s approach to IP rights, while another hoped Trump would appoint a “knowledgeable” director of the US Patent and Trademark Office. 10 November 2016
Patents
Depending on where you sit, inter partes review purges bad patents and stops ‘trolls’, or discards good patents by testing them not for what they are, but what they are not. Charles Shifley of Banner & Witcoff sheds some light on the controversy. 10 November 2016
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