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May 14, 2012
This week’s IP quiz questions all relate to last week’s INTA Annual Meeting in Washington DC. How many can you answer?
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May 08, 2012
When the Trademark Dilution Revision Act became law in 2006, U.S. trademark owners were triumphant.
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May 08, 2012
In advance of today’s session on trademarks and publicity rights, Karen Bolipata looks at the evolution of the law on the use of brands and celebrities in expressive works.
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May 07, 2012
With IP issues front and center in Congress, attorneys need to know when their stance on a particular topic may be crossing the line into the highly regulated world of lobbying. Eileen McDermott and Patrick Ross explain.
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May 07, 2012
As with patents, where the concept of trolling in intellectual property began, there is much disagreement over who qualifies as a trademark troll. But one thing is certain, says Simon Crompton: it is now a trend, and one that the speakers in today’s session believe lawyers need to take seriously.
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April 17, 2012
The UK government has taken a step closer to introducing a plain packaging regime for cigarettes by launching a consultation on standardised tobacco packaging
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April 04, 2012
Clothing company True Religion has been awarded the largest ever damages amount in a counterfeiting case against 106 rogue websites
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April 04, 2012
An Australian appeal court has ruled that Google’s AdWord programme misleads and deceives consumers and ordered the company to change its system
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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 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 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 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
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 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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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 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
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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January 23, 2012
When a business goes bust, it is the employees and investors who bear the brunt. But pity too the trade mark attorneys who find that their client lists have suddenly shrink