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Patents
The new US acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, was linked to a company that was fined by the US Federal Trade Commission for a scam related to patent licensing. 8 November 2018
Patents
Ilkka Rahnasto has joined patent licensing company Marconi as senior vice president after stepping down as head of Nokia’s patent business, with lawyers saying Marconi will benefit from having such a leading IP specialist. 8 November 2018
Trademarks
US-based Mad Dogg Athletics emerged victorious today after the EU General Court annulled a European Union Intellectual Property Office decision to revoke the fitness company’s rights to the EU trademark ‘Spinning’. 8 November 2018
Trademarks
More than 3,000 items of counterfeit Major League Basketball apparel and merchandise were seized during and after the MLB 2018 World Series, as part of a multi-partner enforcement operation. 8 November 2018
Copyright
Nina Fitzgerald has joined Ashurst as a partner in Sydney, after spending three years as a senior associate at Deacons in Hong Kong. 8 November 2018
Copyright
Google last year declined more than ten million adverts suspected of infringing copyright or linking to infringing sites, according to a new report by the company. 7 November 2018
Patents
China approved changes to litigation procedures in patent and other IP cases in late October, in a move that fundamentally alters how the appeal process will work for certain technical disputes, according to law firm Gowling WLG. 7 November 2018
Trademarks
The US Girl Scouts yesterday took the country’s Boy Scouts to court for trademark infringement. 7 November 2018
Trademarks
The EU institutions are seeking to implement potentially wide-ranging restrictions on publicly-accessibly information in the .eu WHOIS database which threaten to severely restrict the ability to investigate and tackle online trademark infringements. Flip Petillion and Alexander Heirwegh of law firm Petillion report. 7 November 2018
Patents
The former deputy general counsel of a Silicon Valley-based company has been appointed as deputy director of the US Patent and Trademark Office. 7 November 2018
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