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Trademarks
The European General Court has reversed the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market’s decision to reject an invalidity claim filed by the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia against a Lebanese competitor. 21 September 2015
Patents
The America Invents Act has turned the US Patent and Trademark Office into one of the busiest patent dockets in the country and bred a new type of ‘patent troll’, lawyers have told WIPR following the act’s three-year anniversary. 18 September 2015
Patents
Law firm Arent Fox has hired Linda Lecomte and Michelle Marsh as partners in the firm’s intellectual property practice in New York. 18 September 2015
Trademarks
UK-based law firm Elkington and Fife has hired Chris McLeod as partner to its London office. 17 September 2015
Trademarks
Europe’s highest court has ruled that a trademark cannot be registered for a shape of which some features are necessary to obtain a technical effect, in a dispute concerning the Kit Kat chocolate bar between Nestlé and rival Cadbury. 16 September 2015
Trademarks
WIPR is attending the Marques 29th Annual Conference from September 15 to 18 in Vienna, Austria, the home country of composers including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Strauss. 15 September 2015
Patents
Law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler has hired Lewis Popovski and Jeffrey Ginsberg as partners in its patent litigation practice group in New York. 14 September 2015
Patents
InterDigital was wrong to claim that a decision by the US International Trade Commission to end an investigation into whether Nokia infringed its patents had a “limited effect”, readers have said. 14 September 2015
Copyright
An exhibition created by street artist Banksy that alludes to Disney themes and characters is clearly satirical and Disney does not have grounds to sue over it, readers have claimed. 7 September 2015
Copyright
Disney, Marvel and Lucasfilm have teamed up to tackle a baker who they claim is selling cakes bearing images of well-known film characters without their permission. 7 September 2015
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