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April 27, 2012
Prototype shoes, banned songs and poor grammar: have you been following the news in IP this week?
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April 24, 2012
Siemens succeeded in having the domain name siemensit.org transferred to it in a recent WIPO case, but failed with siemitglobal.com
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April 05, 2012
A judge in the England & Wales High Court has said that a trial between smartphone rivals Apple and Samsung in a designs dispute can be held in June
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April 05, 2012
Test your knowledge of this week’s IP developments. All the answers can be found in items on managingip.com published in the past five days
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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 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 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
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 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 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 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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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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January 27, 2012
Free access: The nominations for Managing IP’s Global Awards 2012 have been announced
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January 13, 2012
Rules within EU member states on so-called look-alikes vary so greatly that the practice is able to flourish in parts of the European Union, says a report prepared for the European Commission
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October 14, 2011
Lawyers representing the UK, Denmark, Germany, Ireland and France lined up this week to tell the Court of Justice why OHIM should change its practice on class headings and how it affects trade mark owners
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September 28, 2011
A private equity company has taken a majority stake in Zacco, the northern European IP consultancy
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September 19, 2011
German courts are becoming more liberal in what they consider an offensive mark, following a recent ruling over the word "ficken"
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September 15, 2011
The global communications campaign to publicise new gTLDs will launch next week amid concerns that its $750,000 advertising budget is insufficient
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September 12, 2011
The EU General Court has dismissed an appeal to register the trade mark Omnicare Clinical Research – even though the opposing mark was originally misspelt
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August 24, 2011
Samsung will be barred from distributing three models of its Galaxy smartphone after rival Apple won a preliminary injunction in The Netherlands - and scrutiny over its tablet continues in Germany