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Trademarks
The US Supreme Court has rejected a bid by a small Australian shoewear company for a review of a ruling favouring US retailer Deckers in a trademark dispute over the ‘Ugg’ mark. 8 December 2021
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An Australian computer scientist and self-proclaimed inventor of Bitcoin has been cleared of majority of claims in an IP dispute, but will have to pay $100 million to a venture he founded with his deceased business partner. 7 December 2021
Jurisdiction reports
Many people, lay and professional, are not aware that there are several different types of US patents available to inventors. Some use the word patent to describe only what they call “mechanical” and “design” patents. 7 December 2021
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Both the UK Intellectual Property Office and the US Patent and Trademark Office have launched public consultations on standard-essential patents. 7 December 2021
Patents
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that the US Army and several contractors must face claims that they had infringed an inventor’s armoured vehicle patents. 6 December 2021
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Paul Hastings has added former International Trade Commission litigator, Kecia Reynolds, as partner to its IP practice in Washington, DC. 6 December 2021
Patents
The California Institute of Technology has sued Samsung in federal court, alleging that the mobile giant’s devices infringed wifi patents that were at the centre of a billion-dollar damages case against Apple and Broadcom last year. 6 December 2021
Jurisdiction reports
The recent Decree No. 119 promulgated by the Ministry of Economic Development on June 1, 2021, and entered into force on September 9, 2021, amends the Implementing Regulation of the Industrial Property Code, and represents a progress in the harmonisation of the national legal system after the EU Directive No. 2015/2436 and a subsequent Legislative Decree of 2019. 6 December 2021
Patents
President Biden’s US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) nominee Kathi Vidal appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to field questions about how she would lead the office and tackle some of IP’s most pressing issues ahead of her prospective confirmation to the role. 3 December 2021
Copyright
The England and Wales Court of Appeal has ruled that a software developer does not own the copyright for examination software he created while working at a digital forensics firm. 3 December 2021
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