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China’s aversion to the means-plus-function feature narrows readings of patent claims, explains Xiaojun Guo of CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office. 7 August 2019
Copyright
With its potential unrealised and little case law to go on, you might think augmented and virtual reality had few concerns with IP. Not so, as Saman Javed of WIPR finds. 7 August 2019
Copyright
Movie studios, TV networks and radio stations have sent comments to the US Department of Commerce on how the government can help curb online piracy. 7 August 2019
Patents
A US-based IP licensing company has filed a complaint against Amazon, claiming that Amazon’s Echo, and its incorporated voice assistant Alexa, infringes two of its patents. 7 August 2019
Trademarks
The issues arising when IP law meets fundamental rights are the subject of evolving opinions and court reasonings in Europe and the US, as WIPR’s Rory O’Neill discovers. 7 August 2019
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Japan’s Fair Trade Commission has launched an investigation into whether Apple abused its position of power to violate anti-monopoly rules and gain IP free of charge. 7 August 2019
Patents
Discussions around AI often turn to whether AI-controlled robots will eventually become our overlords. The doomsayers are not serious, are they? Sarah Morgan of WIPR investigates. 7 August 2019
Trademarks
McDonald’s monopoly over the ‘Mc’ trademark for food and drink has been reduced, with the EU Intellectual Property Office handing a partial victory to Irish fast-food chain Supermac’s. 7 August 2019
Copyright
In a bid to strengthen Singapore’s position as the region’s alternative dispute resolution hub, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore is collaborating with the World Intellectual Property Organization. 7 August 2019
Copyright
A group of more than 100 songwriters, composers and musicians have filed an amicus brief in support of Led Zeppelin in a copyright infringement case involving the 1971 hit “Stairway to Heaven”. 7 August 2019
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