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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
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May 17, 2012
Icann has selected Alain Pellet as the independent objector for the global top level domain (gTLD) selection program
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May 14, 2012
A US appeals court last week declined to answer whether aesthetic functionality is a valid defence to trade mark infringement
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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 14, 2012
Managing IP lists the IP conferences, decisions and meetings taking place this week
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May 09, 2012
Scott Paintin is in charge of protecting intellectual property for Western Union, including the Washington D.C.-based Travelex Global Business Payments. James Nurton spoke to him.
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May 09, 2012
The Trademark Reporter authors John Welch of Lando & Anastasi and Theodore Davis of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton will highlight some of the key matters in a number of areas that are shaping trademark law today. Eileen McDermott reports.
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May 09, 2012
There are signs that it is becoming easier to register nontraditional trademarks. But how useful are they for brand owners? A session at today's INTA Annual Meeting compares practice in China, Europe and the United States, reports Emma Barraclough.
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May 09, 2012
For now, ambush marketing is winning. Not because the law isn’t strong enough to prevent brands from hijacking physical events, but because the media by which consumers watch those events has broadened so much.
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May 09, 2012
Lawyers whose clients want to extend their brand need to ask themselves four key questions, said John Joseph Cheek, Caterpillar Inc., at a session during the INTA Annual Meeting yesterday.
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May 09, 2012
“We now hand over to Paola Gelato of Studio Legale Jacobacci to talk about geographical indications in Italy. And I warn you, anyone that skipped lunch is going to find this difficult,” said chair Jaroslaw Kulikowski of Kulikowska & Kulikowski in Poland in yesterday’s session, Appellations d’Origine: Made in Europe. And so it proved.
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May 09, 2012
Companies outside Europe could be forgiven for thinking that trademark law around the EU is relatively harmonized, given the EU-level directives and Community trade mark system. Attendees at the Regional Update session on Europe yesterday were reminded, however, that that is not the case with unregistered marks.
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May 09, 2012
TV shows called Surfer Dudes and Bull Run, an actor named Crad Ditt and an apparel business called Lami: a recipe for financial success or a trademark law headache?
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May 09, 2012
More than 1,400 attendees crowded into a session on keyword advertising yesterday, where Rosetta Stone counsel John Ramsey and other panelists shared their frustrations about the issue and also faced tough questions about the proper legal approach.
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May 09, 2012
ICANN’s Board has decided to offer a full refund to any gTLD applicant that withdraws its application before the applied-for new strings are revealed.
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May 09, 2012
“Who has downloaded music?” asked Christopher Robertson of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “I promise I’m not going to take any names.” At this, nearly everyone raised a hand. The better question, perhaps, was who hadn’t illegally downloaded music.
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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.
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May 08, 2012
A summary of yesterday's sessions at the INTA Annual Meeting
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May 08, 2012
Julie Alexa Strauss of Feld Entertainment describes her love of live entertainment, the battle to enforce trademark rights, and why she wants outside counsel to understand her business.
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May 08, 2012
“In the Navy you don’t learn from textbooks, you have sea stories instead,” Leonard A. Lauder told attendees in his keynote speech at the opening ceremony yesterday. The Chairman Emeritus of The Estée Lauder Companies, Lauder joined his parents’ company in 1958 when he left the US Navy. “I looked pretty sexy in that Navy uniform,” he remembered.