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Manufacturer Trinseo has accused its competitor Kellogg Brown & Root of purloining trade secrets used to create high-performance plastics to secure deals worth $40 million with Chinese chemical manufacturers. 1 December 2020
Influential Women in IP
Justice Prabha Sridevan has left her mark on the Indian IP industry, first as a judge of the Madras High Court, and then as chair of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board. Here, she tells WIPR about two cases that she will always remember. 1 December 2020
Patents
The addition of Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court’s bench could lead to challenges to modern, judicially imposed restrictions on patent eligibility, say Joshua Reisberg and Aaron Savit of Axinn. 1 December 2020
Patents
The US International Trade Commission is set to investigate optical data cables used by Facebook and Logitech, following a complaint from California-based Cosemi Technologies. 1 December 2020
Trademarks
The World Intellectual Property Organization’s Arbitration and Mediation Center has registered its 50,000th cybersquatting case, as the COVID-19 pandemic drives up cases. 1 December 2020
Influential Women in IP
Lawyers are still “disproportionately likely” to come from privileged backgrounds, with three times as many having attended fee-paying schools than the national UK average, a new report has revealed. 30 November 2020
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A Chinese company has been accused of selling counterfeit Starbucks coffee, in a suit which has made the highest ever compensation demand in a consumer civil public interest litigation in China. 30 November 2020
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The US Trade Representative’s annual counterfeiting and piracy report should not “target” US companies, according to the Computer & Communications Industry Association. 30 November 2020
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Nearly 22,000 domain names offering counterfeit and pirated items over the internet have been seized as part of ‘In Our Sites’, a joint international operation. 30 November 2020
Patents
The German Bundestag has approved a ratification bill on the Unified Patent Court Agreement, yesterday, November 26. 27 November 2020
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