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  • The Court of Justice of the EU has clarified the obligations on trade mark owners who claim that a later mark is or would be detrimental to the distinctive character of their own mark
  • The Motion Picture Association of America along with Chinese companies Tencent, Youku Tudou and Sohu have filed actions against Baidu and video site QVOD for copyright infringement
  • Google won its eight-year copyright battle with the Authors Guild on Thursday, after a judge said the search engine’s mass book scanning project falls under the fair use exemption
  • Lawyers are not know for their sense of humour, and patent attorneys (sad to say) even less so. So we were not optimistic when we invited our twitter followers to suggest puns for a headline on a trade mark story. Did we underestimate them?
  • For the first time last week, a High Court case in London was decided where a trade mark attorney appeared as the sole legal representation of his client. No solicitor, no barrister. Should firms and chambers be worried?
  • Businesspeople, academics and public interest organisations urged the US House of Representatives to consider legislative fixes to combat patent trolls including a registry of demand letters run by the FTC
  • A conference on the thorny issue of standard-essential patents and RAND raised some difficult questions, some of them with potentially worrying consequences
  • Yesterday, Wikileaks released what is purported to be a negotiation copy of the IP chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). As the opposition mobilises, can the TPP avoid ACTA’s fate?
  • Trade mark owners can start to register their rights in seven of the new gTLDs on November 26
  • China’s State Council is seeking comments on draft revisions to the patent examination guidelines to allow for design patent protection for computer program graphic user interfaces (GUIs)