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A New York-based fashion designer has accused shopping channel QVC of copying her slimming jeans, called SkinnyJeans. 18 May 2018
Jurisdiction reports
European trademark law is changing as a result of the so-called ‘trademark reform package’, which contains a new regulation (2017/1001) on European Union trademarks and a new directive (2015/2436). 18 May 2018
Jurisdiction reports
Last September the International Trademark Association (INTA) released the results of an impact study conducted by Frontier Economics across five major Association of Southeast Asian Nations economies, showing the correlation between trademarks and their economic contribution to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), employment and share of exports. 18 May 2018
Jurisdiction reports
The IP rights environment has become very internationally-focused lately. IP owners have many opportunities to protect their IP rights globally, but enforcement of IP rights is still mainly based on national requirements and processes with country specifics and peculiarities. This is also the case in Russia. 18 May 2018
Trademarks
The value of the global market for anti-counterfeit packaging technologies is expected to reach $357.9 billion by 2026, according to a new report. 17 May 2018
Trademarks
The UK government and European Commission have clarified a number of issues on trademarks and designs after Brexit, but a lot has been left unmentioned or has yet to be agreed on, as Tania Clark of the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys explains. 17 May 2018
Patents
The Korean Intellectual Property Office is aiming to keep pace with the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ by employing several measures to boost innovation and examination in this area, as the office’s commissioner Sung Yunmo tells WIPR. 17 May 2018
Patents
The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys continues to lobby on behalf of IP owners in the Brexit negotiations and to work closely with partners around the world, says Lee Davies, CEO of the institute. 17 May 2018
Copyright
Collaboration between and among all the relevant stakeholders, and removing the obstacles to such cooperation, are vital to addressing the growing threat of counterfeits, says Travis Johnson of the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition. 17 May 2018
Trademarks
A trademark does not have distinctive character simply because the product it covers is “innovative”, according to the Court of Justice of the European Union. 16 May 2018
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