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Baker Botts has appointed Robert Scheinfeld as co-chair of the firm’s IP department. 13 August 2019
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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed a Texas court’s claim construction in a case involving telecoms companies AT&T and Ericsson. 13 August 2019
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The French law No. 2019-486 of May 22, 2019 on business growth and transformation, known as the PACTE Law, introduces important changes in the French patent system, including conditions for infringement and invalidity actions for all the industrial property rights. 13 August 2019
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A Delaware jury has told beauty company L’Oréal to pay start-up Olaplex more than $91 million for stealing its trade secrets, infringing two patents and breaching a contract. 13 August 2019
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In May 2018 Italy implemented, through law N. 63/2018, the Directive EU 2016/943 of the European Council about trade secret protection. 9 August 2019
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Greenberg Traurig has added David Bloch as a partner to its IP department in San Francisco. 9 August 2019
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For years patent practitioners in Taiwan had been looking forward to an IP court decision affirming a patent’s inventive step on the ground of commercial success or any other objective indicia categorised as “auxiliary considerations”. In February they received a heartening response from the IP Court in Wan-Sheng Trade Corp v IP Office, 107 Shing-Zhuan-Su 75, Taiwan IP Court. 8 August 2019
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One would think that the management of Qualcomm celebrated its victory over Apple when, on the first day of the trial in their bitter fight, Apple capitulated and gave up. 8 August 2019
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Japan’s Fair Trade Commission has launched an investigation into whether Apple abused its position of power to violate anti-monopoly rules and gain IP free of charge. 7 August 2019
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Discussions around AI often turn to whether AI-controlled robots will eventually become our overlords. The doomsayers are not serious, are they? Sarah Morgan of WIPR investigates. 7 August 2019
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