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  • Quiz of the week May 14-18

    May 21, 2012

    How much attention have you been paying to IP developments in the past week? Test your knowledge with Managing IP’s news quiz

  • What's on this week

    May 21, 2012

    Managing IP lists the IP meetings, decisions and events taking place this week

  • Interview: Rosa Wilkinson, innovation director at the UK IPO

    May 15, 2012

    Rosa Wilkinson joined the IPO in September last year after working with UK Trade and Investment and Lloyds Bank, where she served as director of public policy and regulation. She tells Emma Barraclough about her IP role

  • Quiz of the week – INTA Annual Meeting 2012

    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?

  • When the content is the trademark

    May 08, 2012

    In 2000, a bookstore owner in the UK found a poster in the shop with the words “Keep Calm and Carry On.” The owner hung it in the store and, when customers inquired about it, began selling copies. Since then, the phrase and the lone graphic—the crown of King George VI­­—have become iconic. Others have even registered the phrase as a trademark.

  • The changing face of ambush marketing

    May 08, 2012

    Events organizers need to stay one step ahead of ambush marketers if they want to protect their brands and keep their sponsors happy. Emma Barraclough explains how they are meeting the challenges of the social media revolution.

  • Unitary patent on the agenda on World IP Day

    April 27, 2012

    The UK's IP minister reaffirmed the country's support for a unitary patent at an event to mark World IP Day yesterday

  • Microsoft, Philips, DSM launch new industry group

    April 26, 2012

    Ideas Matter, a new industry association that aims to improve awareness of IP, was launched today in Brussels by companies, inventors, OHIM and WIPO

  • New Zealand rides plain packaging wave

    April 24, 2012

    Following Australia and the UK, New Zealand’s government has released proposals to enforce plain packaging for cigarettes as part of a campaign to eliminate smoking by 2025

  • Why IP owners have nothing to fear in India

    April 23, 2012

    Foreign patent owners have nothing to fear from the Indian patent system, a local lawyer told IP owners last week

  • What’s on this week April 23-27

    April 23, 2012

    Managing IP lists the IP meetings, conferences and decisions to watch out for this week

  • IP offices explain hearts and minds approach

    April 20, 2012

    Oswald Schroeder owes his job to a mouse

  • UK reveals plain pack thinking

    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

  • Weekly IP quiz April 9 to 13

    April 13, 2012

    This week's quiz questions cover gTLDs, UK IP policy, ACTA - and Jeremy Lin. How many can you answer?

  • UK to launch plain packaging consultation

    April 13, 2012

    The UK Health Secretary has said he will launch a consultation on plain packaging for cigarettes on Monday

  • Lookalike products on the rise in UK

    April 13, 2012

    A study by the British Brands Group has revealed that lookalike or parasitic packaging in supermarkets is at its highest level in five years

  • IP communicators to discuss attack on enforcement

    April 11, 2012

    How can IP owners and regulators respond to the unprecedented attack on IP rights seen in the past few months?

  • UK fast-tracks Apple/Samsung design case

    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

  • Quiz of the week April 2 to 5

    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

  • Gucci v Guess: what happens when designers fight

    April 04, 2012

    Last week lawyers for Gucci and Guess clashed in court over allegations of copying. But how successful have other brand owners been in claiming that rivals have infringed their rights?

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INTA Daily News 2012

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