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Technology company IBM filed yet another blockchain-based patent application at the US Patent and Trademark Office last week. 12 August 2019
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The Olympic rings and the Olympic Games designations are protected in Germany by their own law. The International Olympic Committee awards the Olympic Games only to countries which guarantee individual legal protection for the Olympic symbols and designations. 12 August 2019
Trademarks
Japanese beer company Asahi has secured the registration of a ‘Snow Globe’ trademark in the UK, after fending off opposition from the China-based brewer of Snow beer. 12 August 2019
Trademarks
The confluence of IP and antitrust laws throws a challenge to trademark owners in the realm of brand protection, and this has often led to a conflict between these two facets of law. 12 August 2019
Copyright
American singer Cyndi Lauper has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by singer-songwriter Benny Mardones, which claimed that Lauper used music from his song “Into the Night” for the finale of her Broadway musical “Kinky Boots”. 12 August 2019
Copyright
The Deutsche Fußball Liga, a subsidiary of German football association Die Liga – Fußballverband, has entered into a partnership with content management service Athletia to monitor pirated broadcasts of Bundesliga football league matches. 9 August 2019
Patents
Apple has asked for another en banc hearing in a $439 million case which found that its Facetime feature infringed two of VirnetX’s patents, after an appeals court found most of the patents’ claims to be unpatentable. 9 August 2019
Patents
In May 2018 Italy implemented, through law N. 63/2018, the Directive EU 2016/943 of the European Council about trade secret protection. 9 August 2019
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This article follows an earlier report on the case between Stichting BREIN, the litigious Dutch anti-piracy organisation, and defendant NSE, a Usenet provider. On April 5, 2019 the Dutch Supreme Court provided its proposed questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union on the concept of ‘communication to the public’. 9 August 2019
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Greenberg Traurig has added David Bloch as a partner to its IP department in San Francisco. 9 August 2019
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