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Trademarks
While IP laws don’t protect advertising slogans in Brazil, that doesn’t mean they can’t be secured by other means. Paulo Parente Marques Mendes and Beatriz Vergaça Castro of Di Blasi, Parente & Associados report. 26 September 2018
Patents
Qualcomm yesterday hit back at the US Federal Trade Commission in a competition dispute centring on standard-essential patents and, in a separate matter, accused Apple of trade secrets theft. 26 September 2018
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There are several ways to boost the strength of a patent portfolio in order to assist with monetisation, says Abdullah Rahal of TechInsights. 25 September 2018
Trademarks
Mozambique’s Industrial Property Code needs major changes in order to clarify confusion surrounding distinctive signs, argue João Pereira Cabral and Joel Rodrigues of Inventa International. 25 September 2018
Patents
The UK government’s latest guidance on a no-deal Brexit fails to clarify the future of IP rights exhaustion surrounding the European Economic Area, according to lawyers. 25 September 2018
Patents
Associations which represent companies including Facebook, Amazon, and Google have supported the US Federal Trade Commission in its patent dispute with semiconductor company Qualcomm. 24 September 2018
Copyright
Monte Cooper has joined Goodwin Procter’s Silicon Valley office as a senior counsel from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. 24 September 2018
Patents
Russian companies should follow a number of steps to ensure they and their employees are clear on who owns the IP rights to inventions created at work, as Sergey Vasiliev of Gorodissky & Partners reports. 21 September 2018
Trademarks
To violate a geographical indication in the EU, the disputed mark must trigger the consumer’s association with the GI-protected product—it is not sufficient that the geographical area alone is brought to mind, an industry conference in Paris heard. 21 September 2018
Copyright
Senior judges are among the speakers at the 2018 AIPLA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, from October 25 to 27, as WIPR finds out. 21 September 2018
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