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Incopro’s report highlights how e-commerce platforms can protect consumers from repeat offenders and why a uniform approach is needed to significantly reduce illicit sales

Mike Sweeney and Chloe Lee of Incopro discuss how legislative changes ahead will have an impact on the way online marketplaces operate

Kimiya Shams, legal counsel at audio tech company Devialet, discusses her growth as an IP lawyer and looks at how brand protection programmes serve to safeguard consumers and brand owners

Hosted by Managing IP’s Ed Conlon, the discussion at Incopro’s Insync Virtual Summit explored how the pandemic has affected brand protection teams and offered key insights to drive success in 2021

Colette Durst explains how she restructured the 3M team during COVID and why a pandemic is the perfect time to show IP worth

Max Walters joins Sally Shorthose and James Baillieu of Bird & Bird and Henry Hadad of Bristol Myers Squibb to discuss how COVID-19 has shaped transactional work

Charlotte Kilpatrick joins Steve Mortinger of IBM and Toby Bond and Katharine Stephens of Bird & Bird to discuss how data rights are reshaping IP

Richard Vary, Clemens Heusch and Matthias Schneider reveal their views on component-level versus end-point licensing and Unwired Planet

With many blocks on .xxx domain names expiring next year, brand owners should consider using new tools to prevent their trademarks being available to third parties

Brand owners assess the reputational damage if their marks are used by third parties on pornographic websites and mull the best strategy for combating infringement

In In re Odd Sox LLC, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) issued a precedential ruling, holding that the term "generic name" as used in the Trademark Act encompasses product packaging, and that the generic inquiry is applicable to assessments of source identification capabilities of product packaging.

European regulations provide the possibility for works of applied art to benefit from both design right protection and copyright protection (for artistic work). Each form of protection is subject to its own specific rules. The scope and conditions of protection by copyright are subject to national rules.

An inventor invented a system for drainage of walls. He was managing director for several years of a group of firms (the ATG-Group), the business of which was the application of that system. The plaintiff is the Austrian firm of the ATG-Group.

In Universal Standard Inc. v Target Corp. (S.D.N.Y., No. 18 Civ. 6042), the US District Court for the Southern District of New York addressed the question of whether sharing attorney-client privileged communications with a public relations firm destroys that privilege. The court found that Universal Standard waived the privilege by including its public relations firm, BrandLink, in emails discussing strategy related to the lawsuit.

In the latest international briefing for Mexico, Adrián Martínez assesses a new amendment to Mexican trade mark law dealing with bad faith marks

Jurisprudence has had fixed rules for a long time on the reconditioning of pharmaceutical products by parallel importers, without the consent of the trade mark owner.