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Weekly quiz, April 23 to 27

Prototype shoes, banned songs and poor grammar: have you been following the news in IP this week?

1 What shoe-related invention did Trevor Baylis demonstrate to António Campinos of OHIM and others this week?

2 Whose defence in a UDRP case comprised an email saying: "It wasn't our deliberate effort, it happens coincidently, we highly regret for it"?

3 How many songs was YouTube told it must track in a German ruling?

4 Which country approved legislation to join the Madrid Protocol?

5 Which law firm added an associated office in Indonesia?



Answers to last week's quiz:

1 EPO President Benoît Battistelli

2 IBM

3 €1.7 billion

4 Mauritius

5 Unilever

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