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The importance of intellectual property has grown substantially in mergers and acquisitions transactions, and early involvement of IP lawyers in a potential deal has become essential, Annual Meeting registrants learned yesterday. 24 May 2017
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Today is the last day to visit the Pro Bono Clearinghouse Information Booth—located at the INTA Information Booth in Hall 8—to learn more about INTA’s recently established Pro Bono Clearinghouse. 24 May 2017
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Through assisting trademark owners and working with neighboring IP Offices, the Korean Intellectual Property Office is working hard to make the country’s trademark system a better place, as Director General Choi Gyuwan of the Trademark and Design Examination Bureau tells Uldduz Larki. 24 May 2017
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For registrants spending some time in Barcelona after the Annual Meeting ends, there are plenty of options for diversion, as Uldduz Larki reports. 24 May 2017
Jurisdiction reports
The strength of moral rights in Dutch copyright law has in January 2017 been illustrated in two legal disputes concerning the renovation of architectural buildings. 24 May 2017
Patents
A “staggering blow” was dealt to non-practising entities yesterday as the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in TC Heartland v Kraft Foods. 23 May 2017
Patents
Nokia and Apple have settled all litigation related to their IP dispute and have entered into a patent licensing agreement. 23 May 2017
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The number of claims brought at the UK’s specialist IP court have increased by nearly 70%, a sign that its simplified trial procedures are working, lawyers have said. 23 May 2017
Patents
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a dispute that should clear up rules surrounding the inter partes review procedure at the US Patent and Trademark Office. 23 May 2017
Trademarks
Trademark disputes linked to the music group The Drifters have been rumbling on since 1958, and most recently the Fourth Circuit ruled on the doctrine of issue preclusion, writes James Slattery of Birch Stewart Kolasch Birch. 23 May 2017
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