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Mattel has prevailed in its lawsuit with Chinese vendors selling counterfeit “Thomas the Tank Engine” toys on e-commerce sites Alibaba and AliExpress, scoring a $1.45 million default judgment. 24 February 2022
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There is a trio of patents to protect inventions in the republic, explains Diogo Antunes of Inventa. 21 February 2022
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The European Union launched a legal challenge against China at the World Trade Organization late last week, arguing that China is restricting EU companies from protecting and using their patents. 21 February 2022
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Kendal Jenner’s “818 Tequila” brand has been sued by the owner of the Texas-based “512 Tequila” brand for “blatantly” copying its branding. 18 February 2022
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The US International Trade Commission has dismissed a complaint accusing Ikea, GE, Walmart and others of infringing four LED patents owned by the University of California. 18 February 2022
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E-commerce sites operated by China’s Alibaba and Tencent have been included in the US Trade Representative’s annual “notorious markets list” for the first time, while removing any mention of Amazon’s foreign domains that had been listed in previous years. 18 February 2022
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Apple has persuaded a Californian court to throw out a lawsuit that accuses the technology company of wilfully infringing copyrights covering ethnically diverse emoji characters. 17 February 2022
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The luxury brand’s lawsuit over non-fungible tokens heralds important questions for brand owners and artists over their IP rights in the metaverse, Joseph Barber of Howard & Howard Attorneys explains. 17 February 2022
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The Supreme Court of Georgia in the US has affirmed a win for Google, with its refusal to revive allegations that the tech company improperly profited off the name “Edible Arrangements” in its keyword advertising. 16 February 2022
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In 2020, Sharp filed patent infringement lawsuits against Tesla Motors Japan in the Tokyo District Court on the grounds of infringing of Long Term Evolution standard patents. It will be interesting to observe whether the impact of Daimler being defeated in the Mannheim District Court and the Munich District Court in Germany, a major home of automobile manufacture, will be recreated in Japan, also an automobile powerhouse. 15 February 2022
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