New gTLDs, unitary patent, WIPO and the Ka Mate haka: quiz of the week

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New gTLDs, unitary patent, WIPO and the Ka Mate haka: quiz of the week

Five questions on the past week’s news, based on articles on managingip.com. Plus: answers and links for last week’s quiz

  1. How many of the 1,930 new gTLD applications announced last week were for internationalised domain names (IDNs)?

  2. Who described the proposed EU unitary patent as a “pretty good product” in an interview with Managing IP?

  3. Representatives of WIPO member states are meeting in Beijing this week to sign an audiovisual performers treaty. In which year did the last attempt to agree the treaty fail?

  4. Whose attempt to register four phrases of the Ka Mate haka was rejected?

  5. Who won the lifetime achievement award at the EPO European Inventor Awards 2012?



Answers to last week’s quiz:

1. The Financial Times suffered a trade mark defeat in India

2. Japan saw an arrest under the criminal anti-circumvention law

3. The IP5 leaders met to discuss patent reform in Porticcio, France

4. DISH Network’s controversial digital recording service is called The Hopper

5. Bunsow & DeMory is the firm set up by former IP litigators at Dewey & LeBoeuf





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