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Patents
Depending on where you sit, inter partes review purges bad patents and stops ‘trolls’, or discards good patents by testing them not for what they are, but what they are not. Charles Shifley of Banner & Witcoff sheds some light on the controversy. 10 November 2016
Trademarks
US company Heartland Consumer Products has targeted Dunkin’ Donuts and its owner Dunkin’ Brands in a trademark infringement suit based on Splenda, a sweetener. 10 November 2016
Patents
The Indonesian government is due to enact its new trademark law at the end of November. 10 November 2016
Patents
Law firm Ice Miller has appointed Eric Shaffer as of counsel in the firm’s intellectual property group. 10 November 2016
Copyright
Multinational company Microsoft has accused Florida-based Tech HQ of copyright and trademark infringement. 10 November 2016
Copyright
The lending of an electronic book can be treated in the same way as that of a traditional book under certain conditions, Europe’s highest court said today. 10 November 2016
Trademarks
A rejected trademark application for the term ‘Drumpf’, which is apparently in reference to president-elect Donald Trump’s ancestral name, appears to have attracted no response from the mark’s applicant. 9 November 2016
Copyright
After Donald Trump was elected president of the US, WIPR looks at which politicians who have been involved in intellectual property have been re-elected. 9 November 2016
Copyright
UK-based trade organisation the Federation Against Copyright Theft has revealed that it is expanding its intellectual property protection services outside of the audio-visual industry. 9 November 2016
Trademarks
After Swiss chocolate brand Toblerone announced it has changed the weight of its products in the UK, lawyers have told WIPR that the brand may have to reconsider its intellectual property strategy. 9 November 2016
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