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A Ninth Circuit decision in Garcia v Google has shocked copyright practitioners, who warn its impact could be vast. Judge Alex Kozinski this week ruled that the film “The Innocence of Muslims” violated actor Cindy Garcia’s copyright, and that Google must remove it from YouTube

As uncertainty continues to loom over software patents around the world, is the utility model the way to go in the fast-moving industry?

Prabha Sridevan, the former chairperson of India’s Intellectual Property Appellate Board, says that just as Indian companies must obey American laws when selling their wares in the US, international pharmaceutical companies must similarly comply with Indian laws if they wish to do business in the world’s second most populous market

Universities develop plenty of IP, and are increasingly good at commercialising it. But which universities are most active when it comes to developing and transferring their rights? Rubal Walia of INDUS TechInnovations explains

A new Senate anti-troll bill, Betty Boop being back in court, an end to the Candy Crush trademark saga, a rejection of a $2 billion patent lawsuit against Apple, and a Simpsons actor’s copyright dispute were among the intellectual property stories hitting the headlines this week

The green technology issue was back on the agenda at this week’s meeting of the TRIPs Council in Geneva, when Ecuador suggested it could update its year-old proposal on easing patent terms and strengthening TRIPs flexibilities for environmentally sound technologies.

What is it with senior IP leaders and their fondness for singing? Yes, we're thinking of Chief Judge Randall Rader, and now Peter Cheung...

Following the opening of Dumb Starbucks in February, what is the best way for brand owners to react to similarly comedic uses of their marks?

In January, in Weider Publications LLC v D&D Beauty Care Company LLC, the US Patent and Trademark Office's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) issued a precedential decision which granted a broad range of protection for a mark determined to be famous. D&D Beauty had filed an application seeking to register the mark Shapes for use in connection with a range of beauty-related services. Weider Publications opposed registration of the mark claiming, among other things, a likelihood of confusion with its federal trade mark registrations for the mark Shape covering print and digital magazines in the field of health and fitness.

Whether the US Supreme Court's June 13 2013 ruling in Association for Molecular Pathology v Myriad Genetics, Inc, 133 S Ct 2107 (2013) – that "[a] naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated" – is narrowly applicable only to nucleic acids or will be broadly interpreted to apply to all naturally occurring biomolecules remains unclear.