Eagles, Wi-Fi One, hashtag trade marks, emojis, Dancing Baby – the week in IP

May 10 2017

A dispute over Hotel California, en banc argument in Wi-Fi One at the Federal Circuit, a 64% increase in hashtag trade mark applications, a paper discussing IP protection for emojis, and the US government urging the Supreme Court not to hear the dancing baby copyright case were in the recent intellectual property news

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