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Lego has won a substantial Chinese copyright judgement after a court upheld all of the first-instance rulings on 18 existing infringement claims, originally handed down in favour of the Danish toymaker against a Chinese rival’s ‘Lepin’ trademark. 22 January 2020
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In a victory for Nintendo, a US court has overturned a jury’s verdict which would have seen the video game company pay out $10 million in damages. 22 January 2020
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Mobile and video technology company InterDigital has published details of its standard-essential patent licensing rate programme as part of a new “transparency initiative”. 21 January 2020
Patents
Cybersecurity provider Trend Micro is joining the LOT Network, in a bid to combat the threat posed by ‘patent assertion entities’, which it says drain “tens of billions of dollars” from the global economy. 21 January 2020
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The head of a corporate alliance that includes Nokia and Ericsson has urged the EU to beware the so-called ‘patent troll myth’, which he said has “little basis in fact”. 21 January 2020
Trademarks
A chocolate brand has registered a trademark for 'psilocybin'—one of the psychoactive components in magic mushrooms. 21 January 2020
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A senior in-house lawyer at Ford, Bill Coughlin, is returning to IP firm Harness Dickey as CEO, after leaving the firm in 1995. 21 January 2020
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IP heavyweight Frederick Mostert has joined international law firm Bird & Bird as of counsel in the London IP team. 21 January 2020
Patents
Representatives of the world’s five largest IP offices met last week in order to better coordinate their response to AI and emerging technologies. 20 January 2020
Copyright
The English High Court has thrown out a lawsuit that looked to hold Google liable for copyright infringement over third-party ‘hotlinks’. 20 January 2020
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