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Patents
The US Patent and Trademark Office has introduced a two-year pilot programme for disciplinary measures against practitioners, aiming to bring the office’s practices in line with more than 30 state systems. 6 November 2017
Trademarks
A US court has dismissed a complaint by trade group the North American Olive Oil Association that had accused olive oil producer Veronica Foods Company of false advertising. 6 November 2017
Trademarks
A US judge gave Google an injunction against an order from Canada’s Supreme Court on Thursday, November 2. 6 November 2017
Patents
BakerHostetler has continued to strengthen its US IP team with the appointment of Pierre Yanney as a partner in the firm’s IP group and patent litigation team in New York. 3 November 2017
Trademarks
German sportswear company Adidas has opposed another trademark at the US Patent and Trademark Office, claiming that the mark infringes Adidas’s ‘three-stripe’ mark. 3 November 2017
Trademarks
Disney is one step closer to securing the invalidation of a mark it claims is too similar to trademarks for its film “Dumbo”. 3 November 2017
Copyright
The Professional Golfers’ Association has been granted a permanent injunction against a California-based man running a YouTube account that allegedly featured copyrighted golf tournament footage. 3 November 2017
Patents
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed three quarters of inter partes reviews (IPR) and covered business method (CBM) decisions made by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board up to October 15, 2017. 3 November 2017
Jurisdiction reports
The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office has built up a tremendous patent backlog that is hampering the functioning of the patent system. Recent official data shows that a patent application would take 11 years before reaching a final decision. The prospect is bleak: IT inventions may take more than 14 years to get examined. In a rapidly changing field such as this, protracted examination renders most patents unusable. 3 November 2017
Jurisdiction reports
The high rates of obesity among children in Chile is a problem that the health authorities have tried to tackle through different measures during the last few years. One of the most relevant actions was the modification of the food labelling regulation. Andrés Grunewaldt and Luis Felipe Opazo of Silva report. 3 November 2017
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