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Fuelled by the almost overnight transition to working from home triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the global home fitness equipment market was estimated to be worth $8.4 billion in 2020. 2 February 2022
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US rapper Lil Yachty has sued music non-fungible token start-up Opulous for trademark infringement, alleging that the company “maliciously” used his likeness in media materials without his consent to raise capital. 1 February 2022
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Samsung has secured a win in Russia after a Moscow court reversed its previous ruling preventing the electronics company from importing and selling 61 smartphone models throughout the country. 1 February 2022
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In the Bitcoin whitepaper, Satoshi Nakamoto detailed a “purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash” using timestamps to form a chain of transactions to keep a “public history of transactions”. 1 February 2022
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The session will discuss the aims and objectives of the AfrIPI project and its support to IP in the following areas: 1 February 2022
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Alphabet’s driverless taxi arm Waymo has filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Motor Vehicles to keep safety-related trade secrets from being made public. 31 January 2022
Copyright
Twitter dismissed the majority of takedown requests it received from copyright owners despite recording an increase in the overall number of notices in the first half of last year, the social media platform has said in its bi-annual transparency report. 31 January 2022
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Distribution company Hetronic Germany has petitioned the US Supreme Court to overturn a $113 million ruling which found that the Lanham Act could extend to sales activity outside of the US. 31 January 2022
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Sony Music has agreed to drop a lawsuit against fitness apparel company Gymshark, which it had claimed had misused its songs in social media video ads. 28 January 2022
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American software company Autodesk will need to face a rival’s patent infringement suit after the US Court of appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in a split decision that a district court wrongly invalidated parts of a computer modelling patent. 28 January 2022
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