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March 30, 2012
The top White House official for intellectual property Friday sent Capitol Hill a 130-page report documenting enforcement efforts, but declined to endorse further legislative efforts to target online piracy
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March 30, 2012
The Canadian IP Office has published a practice note indicating that it will now accept applications for sound trade marks
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March 30, 2012
Have you been paying attention to the week’s news? Test your knowledge with Managing IP’s five questions
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March 29, 2012
An application for the trade mark Beatle for mobility scooters has been rejected in the EU on the grounds that its users would associate the mark with The Beatles
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March 29, 2012
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan received three awards at the fifth annual North America Awards in Washington DC, in recognition of the firm’s active role in the so-called smartphone wars at the ITC and in the courts
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March 29, 2012
Leading firms from the US and Canada were honoured at Managing IP's fifth annual awards ceremony this week
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March 29, 2012
US Senator Patrick Leahy and Congressman Lamar Smith this week received outstanding achievement awards for their part in passing the America Invents Act
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March 29, 2012
Last week saw a hearing at the Court of Justice of the EU over two questions concerning the domain .eu. The case could affect the rights of trade mark attorneys across Europe
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March 28, 2012
IP owners are mistaken if they imagine yesterday’s decision by MEPs not to refer questions about ACTA to the EU’s top court reflected a softening in their position
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March 27, 2012
A Nigerian diplomat has been given the task of kick starting talks at the WTO over a multilateral register for geographical indications for wines and spirits
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March 27, 2012
IP owners who sue infringers under the UK’s new small claims track cannot request interim injunctions or be awarded more than £5,000 in damages
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March 27, 2012
Douglas Masters of Loeb & Loeb, counsel to the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and Ramon Ramirez explain how the organisers of the March Madness basketball tournament safeguard its IP rights
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March 26, 2012
Common sense and clear guidelines can enable brand owners to use social media like any other form of communication, according to panellists at Asialaw’s In-House Counsel Summit last week
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March 26, 2012
Dot-UK registry Nominet is to review the accuracy of its Whois data and its user terms and conditions
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March 23, 2012
Managing IP provides a round-up of the decisions, meetings and events IP owners and advisers should look out for next week
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March 23, 2012
How many questions on the week’s IP news can you answer?
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March 23, 2012
OHIM is no longer simply an IP office that grants Community trade marks and registered Community designs. Today EU member states agreed that it should take on a new role: overseeing the protection of IP rights across Europe
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March 23, 2012
A group of Australian academics has told a key parliamentary committee why they believe Australia should reconsider ratifying the controversial anti-counterfeiting treaty ACTA.
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March 23, 2012
A rash of recent UDRP cases has seen companies fail to have domain names transferred because they could not prove the domain owner lacked a legitimate interest
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March 23, 2012
The Australian government has promised to defend the country’s new law on plain packaging for tobacco products against attacks at the World Trade Organisation
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March 23, 2012
IP owners will get more information from US Customs officers about suspected counterfeits if politicians agree to back a new bill introduced in the House of Representatives this week
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March 23, 2012
A guide to filing, protecting and enforcing your trade mark in Korea by Jae Hoon Kim Lee & Ko.
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March 22, 2012
Chrysler will take part in court-ordered mediation in a trade mark dispute next week. But should IP owners opt for this form of dispute resolution more often? Managing IP outlines its advantages
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March 21, 2012
The shortlist for the inaugural Euromoney Legal Media Group Americas Women in Business Law Awards has been announced
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March 21, 2012
It was a car that for many encapsulates 1980s aspirations. But now the makers of the Golf GTi have been told that they cannot stop Suzuki from registering a trade mark for Swift GTi
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March 16, 2012
An assembly of the Icann Board of Directors on the last day of the organisation’s meeting in Costa Rica ended with no discussion of some of the most important issues
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March 16, 2012
Managing IP lists some of the decisions, meetings and events IP professionals should watch out for next week
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March 16, 2012
Test your knowledge of IP news with our five quick questions on the past week’s developments
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March 16, 2012
The Marks & Clerk group has launched two new IP consultancy businesses in London and Paris
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March 15, 2012
Hogan Lovells won the inaugural global IP firm of the year award at tonight’s Managing IP Awards Dinner in London
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March 15, 2012
Leading IP firms from around the world were recognised at Managing IP’s Global Awards 2012 in London tonight
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March 15, 2012
Ukraine’s complaint against Australia’s law to introduce plain packaging for tobacco is the 30th to be filed alleging a breach of the TRIPs Agreement. But how do complainants fare?
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March 15, 2012
The combination of an abbreviation and the descriptive words it abbreviates cannot be registered as a trade mark in the EU
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March 15, 2012
The Australian government has published an amendment to the Tobacco Plain Packaging Regulations 2011, broadening its parameters to apply to non-cigarette tobacco products.
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March 15, 2012
Korea’s legal market is opening up to US firms, with eight so far planning to practise there. How will IP work be affected?
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March 15, 2012
Publisher Apollonian Publications lost a UDRP case this week largely because it failed to register any trade marks for its business
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March 14, 2012
Ukraine has launched legal proceedings at the WTO over Australia’s plans to force tobacco companies to sell cigarettes in plain packs
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March 13, 2012
The UK Parliament’s All-Party Intellectual Property Group has launched an inquiry into the role of government in protecting and promoting intellectual property
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March 13, 2012
IP owners whose trade marks include abbreviations will be advised whether they can be registered in Europe this week
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March 13, 2012
Unlike recent Icann meetings, no big decisions are expected in Costa Rica. But there is still plenty to discuss this week, including rights protection, gTLD applicant support and Whois reform
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March 13, 2012
Icann senior vice president Kurt Pritz got a mouthful from concerned attendees at the Icann meeting in Costa Rica about the so-called batching methodology the organisation has decided to use for new gTLDs
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March 13, 2012
Icann’s Rod Beckstrom is focused on curbing conflicts within the organisation. But the user community is more interested in knowing which new gTLDs have been applied for so far
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March 13, 2012
An appeal court in Delhi is to hear a case next month that should clarify India’s rules on parallel trade
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March 12, 2012
International trade marks filed using the Madrid System grew by 6.5% in 2011 to a record 42,270, amid signs that European brand owners’ strategies are changing
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March 09, 2012
Managing IP lists IP events and meetings scheduled for the week beginning March 12
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March 09, 2012
Each Friday, Managing IP tests your knowledge of the week’s IP news with five questions on the week’s news. How many can you answer?
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March 09, 2012
Ignacio S Sapalo of Sapalo Velez Bundang and Bulilan presents a comprehensive guide to prosecuting and protecting trade marks in the Philippines.
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March 08, 2012
Lego’s licensing programme is atypical, according to Andrea Ryder, senior licensing director, with narrow partnerships and a focus on IP
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March 07, 2012
Brand owners should try to acquire attractive domains as soon as possible through the UDRP system, given a recent controversial ruling
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March 07, 2012
The relay of the Olympic torch through the UK before the start of the 2012 Olympic Games is likely to be a prime target for ambush marketers, according to a lawyer in charge of protecting IP at this year’s Games
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March 07, 2012
One of the largest counterfeiting operations in history has been exposed in New Jersey and linked to a separate scheme to smuggle illicit drugs into the country
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March 07, 2012
The US Supreme Court has received three petitions asking it to hear Pernod Ricard’s decades-long fight for the Havana Club trade mark
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March 06, 2012
A record number of brand owners filed cybersquatting cases with WIPO last year – and the IP organisation says that the introduction of new gTLDs will stretch trade mark owners’ resources still further
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March 06, 2012
Managing IP looks at the movers in Australia, China, India and south-east Asia in its latest trade mark rankings
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March 06, 2012
Farisha Constable, a senior lawyer from the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, describes a typical day in the office
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March 05, 2012
MEPs clashed with representatives of the European Commission last week as they sought to understand the legal – and political – implications of the anti-counterfeiting deal ACTA
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March 02, 2012
Managing IP lists IP events and meetings scheduled for the week beginning March 5
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March 02, 2012
Test your knowledge of the week’s IP news with our weekly quiz – all answers available on managingip.com
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March 02, 2012
Brussels was the setting for impassioned debate over the EU's approach to ACTA this week. But it wasn’t the only place where concerns were raised in Europe
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March 02, 2012
As the European Parliament hosted a workshop on ACTA yesterday, activists on both sides of the debate took to social media site Twitter to present their case
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March 02, 2012
Managing IP looks at the movers in its latest trade mark rankings for the US and Canada
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March 02, 2012
Managing IP’s ranking of trade mark firms in Europe sees several firms change places in the Netherlands as key lawyers move
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March 02, 2012
Some of the world’s most well-known and luxurious hotel brands have won UDRP cases involving 26 domain names this week
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March 01, 2012
The Canadian IP Office is proposing to add holograms, sound and motion to the categories of registrable trade marks – a change that would bring Canada closer to the US, New Zealand and Australia in this area