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Trademarks
DC Comics is investigating whether to oppose three trademark applications, one of which features a superhero cartoon character and another including the word ‘Joker’. 4 September 2019
Patents
McGuireWoods has appointed IP litigator Jason Cook as managing partner of the firm’s Dallas office. 4 September 2019
Copyright
Amazon’s Audible will not enable its new “Audible Captions” feature for a number of audiobooks, following a copyright infringement complaint by several members of the Association of American Publishers. 3 September 2019
Trademarks
US-based cap maker New Era has asked a district court to rule that its products do not infringe a Christian brand’s common law trademark rights. 3 September 2019
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Dutch lawmakers are investigating why Uber was able to claim a $6.1 billion “tax write-off” by moving IP assets to the Netherlands, it has been reported. 3 September 2019
Patents
Hong Kong mobile data company uCloudlink has disputed the findings of a US court’s ruling in a patent infringement case, and says it will appeal the subsequent injunction. 3 September 2019
Patents
In a victory for Snapchat, the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board has determined several claims of a business messaging platform’s patent are unpatentable. 3 September 2019
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US prosecutors are investigating Huawei over new allegations of trade secrets theft, it has been reported. 2 September 2019
Trademarks
US singer Lizzo has been accused of plagiarising a lyric from her hit song “Truth Hurts”, in which she sings “I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% that bitch”. 2 September 2019
Trademarks
Monster Energy has failed to stop a camera equipment company from registering a trademark at the UK Intellectual Property Office, which it claimed would infringe its earlier marks. 2 September 2019
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