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Patents
Danone and Norwegian firm opposition leads EPO to revoke drink formulation patent | Board rules patent for “rare” sugar D-psicose paired with sweetener Rebaudioside M lacks inventive step on appeal. 29 November 2024
Patents
News from around the world that you may have missed, including Tesla, a UPC opt-outs ruling, and Netflix’s Tiger King saga. 29 November 2024
Patents
Despite the fast-moving situation, there is plenty of scope within USPTO guidance to obtain AI patents, explains Zack Higbee of Alston & Bird. 29 November 2024
Trademarks
Iconic US guitar brand tries to block instruments sold at $11,500 with Trump’s signature | Unsigned ‘Presidential Series’ versions have ‘Donald J. Trump’ inlaid on the neck | Customs earlier made ‘largest ever’ seizure of 3,000 counterfeit Gibsons. 28 November 2024
Trade secrets
California court bans former law firm banker from accessing Citi’s confidential information at new employer | Bank alleged ex-employee emailed ‘high cash client’ with purported better offer. 28 November 2024
Diversity
Quadrupling inventorship numbers and doubling women inventors could boost US GDP by 4.5% says USPTO and Diversity Pledge leader | 50 companies sign up to transparency initiative | Untapped women inventors could generate half a trillion dollars. 28 November 2024
Patents
Webinar uncovers why there will be jobs for analysts and AI developers ‘for a long time to come’ | Confidentiality issues limit IBM IP team’s use of AI tools | Data is no longer the ‘new oil’ says Clarivate expert | C-suite expectation for decisions to ‘to function more like scientific theory’ | Braking tech innovator says engineers regularly use genAI. 27 November 2024
Trade secrets
The Big Apple’s reliance on trade secrets ‘common law’—and some surprising rulings in its courts—have left it an unfavourable choice for claimants, says James Pooley 27 November 2024
Trademarks
Quarrel centres on 43-year-old stylised eagle-themed design with horizontal lines | Luxury brand’s success follows earlier losses relating to iconic trademark | General Court says the EUIPO Board of Appeal previously erred on two counts. 27 November 2024
Trademarks
The association's new reporter general Ralph Nack explains why the association is addressing “one of the biggest challenges in the history of copyright”. 26 November 2024
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