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February 29, 2012
Last week Hermès became the latest foreign brand owner to fail to prevent a rival from using a trade mark similar to its own. But could an opinion from China’s Supreme Court help companies in similar situation?
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February 28, 2012
The Taiwanese company in a spat with Apple over the rights to the trade mark ipad has launched a legal – and public relations – offensive
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February 28, 2012
The TRIPs Council – the WTO body that administers the TRIPs Agreement – has chosen a new chairman today who must guide it through debates on tobacco packaging and IP enforcement
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February 28, 2012
The head of India’s IP Office, PH Kurian, is to step down in less than a fortnight and will be succeeded by Chaitanya Prasad
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February 28, 2012
The rapporteur for a key committee in the European Parliament has urged MEPs to refer a separate question to Europe’s highest court over the legality of ACTA
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February 27, 2012
EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht last week said that the Court of Justice of the EU will be asked to rule on the legitimacy of ACTA. But how soon can an opinion be expected?
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February 24, 2012
Managing IP lists IP events and meetings scheduled for the week beginning February 27
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February 24, 2012
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February 24, 2012
Apple and Samsung are pouring millions of dollars into litigation over the IP rights behind their smartphones and tablet computers. Managing IP considers which firms are benefitting
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February 22, 2012
French registry Afnic will introduce non-Latin characters in the six ccTLDs that it manages by July 2012, giving existing domain owners exclusive rights to take internationalised domain names (IDNs)
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February 22, 2012
ACTA, the controversial international anti-piracy and counterfeiting treaty, has hit another hurdle after the European Commission announced this morning that it would ask Europe’s Court of Justice to consider its legality
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February 21, 2012
More cases than ever were brought before Europe’s Court of Justice last year. Does that signal confidence of users or the over-complication of European law? Managing IP reports
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February 17, 2012
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February 17, 2012
In an exclusive interview, Russell Pangborn of Microsoft and Time Warner’s Fabricio Vayra reveal their strategies for new gTLDs, discuss the budget implications and explain why more detail is needed on trade mark protection
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February 16, 2012
The GNSO council has delayed voting on whether VeriSign should introduce a “thick” Whois model to its gTLD databases until Icann’s Costa Rica meeting in March
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February 16, 2012
An electric car, lunch at the Inn and excitement at the Applications Court - a day in the life of England & Wales High Court judge Mr Justice Arnold
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February 16, 2012
The people of Scotland could vote to become independent in 2014. Managing IP investigates what such a move mean for IP owners
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February 16, 2012
Chinese officials have confiscated Apple’s iPad devices from shops as Proview Technology began to assert its trade mark rights against the US company
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February 16, 2012
India has published a list of names that cannot be registered as trade marks for pharmaceutical products that should provide greater protection to drugs makers
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February 14, 2012
GNSO council members have asked Icann to explain why it opened a public comment period addressing trade mark protection in new gTLDs, expressing surprise at the decision
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February 14, 2012
Icann has received 100 applications for generic top-level domains since the application period opened on January 12
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February 14, 2012
The European Commission has taken the extraordinary step of detailing all the negotiations and consultations that led to the signing of ACTA, in response to allegations that the process was not transparent
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February 14, 2012
J Thomas McCarthy, author of the seminal trade mark treatise McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition, told an audience of trade mark professionals on Thursday that “some bad things are happening among judges” on the topic of trade mark functionality
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February 13, 2012
Kenyan police are investigating whether the murder of an IP lawyer on Friday evening is linked to any of the cases that she was working on
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February 13, 2012
The latest round of negotations between the EU and India over a free-trade agreement was disrupted by protests over the way the IP clauses in the deal could affect access to medicines in developing countries
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February 10, 2012
Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Latvia have all said they will not ratify the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement following protests
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February 10, 2012
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February 10, 2012
The European Commission has outlined how it might reform its enforcement directive to make it easier for IP owners to take action against infringers
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February 10, 2012
In-house trade mark counsel today discussed how visceral reactions to infringement or negative feedback on social media sites can backfire and quickly destroy brand loyalty
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February 09, 2012
Brand owners and individuals have succeeded in each of the 12 completed .xxx disputes under new arbitration, according to statistics obtained by Managing IP
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February 09, 2012
Icann may have to implement more mechanisms to protect trade mark owners in the new gTLD space, vice president of stakeholder relations Kurt Pritz said yesterday
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February 06, 2012
The Hong Kong agency in charge of combating IP crime is to launch a new Electronic Crime Investigation Centre which it says will close the technological gap between infringers and enforcement officers
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February 06, 2012
Sue Harding is the senior clerk at Hogarth Chambers, a set of barristers in London that specialises in IP and chancery work. She tells Emma Barraclough what it’s like to help a group of self-employed advocates manage their business
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February 06, 2012
German car maker BMW has won an important court victory in its long-running battle against a business selling clothes in China using a confusingly similar trade mark
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February 03, 2012
If you managed to score tickets to Sunday’s Super Bowl for less than the average resale price of about $3,500, you might want to check they’re not fakes before making the trip to Indianapolis
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February 03, 2012
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February 02, 2012
Free access: The nominations for Managing IP’s North America Awards 2012 have been announced
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February 02, 2012
The image might look like computer game Pong, the classic 1970s tennis programme, but in fact it’s the winner of Europe’s latest anti-piracy competition
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February 02, 2012
An Asian telecoms company is now only the fourth brand owner to publicly declare an intention to apply for a new gTLD after saying yesterday that it wants .starhub