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Monte Cooper has joined Goodwin Procter’s Silicon Valley office as a senior counsel from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. 24 September 2018
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Fashion designs which are extremely successful are often very simple, making them very difficult to protect with IP, according to Lynn Christina Schreier, head of consumer goods, business IP at Swarovski. 24 September 2018
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US-based voicemail app Kirusa has claimed that its ‘Instavoice’ trademark does not infringe the rights of social media platform Instagram. 24 September 2018
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Russian companies should follow a number of steps to ensure they and their employees are clear on who owns the IP rights to inventions created at work, as Sergey Vasiliev of Gorodissky & Partners reports. 21 September 2018
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Two researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition have argued that the UK will not be able to remain in the Unified Patent Court Agreement after leaving the EU. 21 September 2018
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The US Patent and Trademark Office announced yesterday that it is updating its Patent Trial and Appeal Board procedures in an effort to increase transparency. 21 September 2018
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The director of IP at France’s National Institute of Industrial Property, Philippe Cadre, has confirmed he has applied for a vice president position at the European Patent Office. 21 September 2018
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US fashion brand Levi Strauss has taken on unknown entities for alleged trademark infringement and selling counterfeit products. 21 September 2018
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To violate a geographical indication in the EU, the disputed mark must trigger the consumer’s association with the GI-protected product—it is not sufficient that the geographical area alone is brought to mind, an industry conference in Paris heard. 21 September 2018
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Senior judges are among the speakers at the 2018 AIPLA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, from October 25 to 27, as WIPR finds out. 21 September 2018
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